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We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.\nJob Roles and Responsibilities\nPartner with business stakeholders to understand dealer order-planning, product-structure, interface, data, reporting, and operational-planning needs.\nCollect, analyze, document, and maintain business requirements, user stories, process flows, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and traceability for application changes.\nAssess enhancement requests and production issues, clarify business value and impact, and support backlog refinement with product and technical teams.\nLevel 4 support for product incidents, service requests, data issues, and recurring defects; analyze application behavior, interfaces, logs, batch dependencies, and business impact to support root cause analysis.\nCoordinate development requests with developers, database teams, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity partners, and vendors; validate that fixes address the documented business need.\nManage enhancements and code fixes from demand intake through implementation, including scope clarification, test planning, business validation, release readiness, and post-production verification.\nDevelop functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance test scenarios; coordinate test execution, document evidence, manage defects, and confirm solution quality.\nCreate and maintain application support procedures, interface inventories, data mappings, knowledge articles, and business continuity or recovery instructions.\nFacilitate communication between business and technical teams by translating business needs into clear solution requirements and technical issues into understandable business impacts and options.\nIdentify opportunities for product modernization, process simplification, automation, improved controls, stronger monitoring, and reduced manual support effort.\nParticipate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, testers, vendors, and business users throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nPerform other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.\nCandidates Will Have\nFour-year bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field.\n3+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, solution analysis, application support, product support, or technology delivery.\nExperience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria.\nExperience supporting enterprise applications and coordinating production incident, problem, change, and release activities.\nDemonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate business-process, application, interface, and data issues.\nExperience developing test scenarios, coordinating user acceptance testing, managing defects, and validating production changes.\nWorking knowledge of SQL, relational data concepts, interfaces, batch processing, and system integration or data-flow analysis.\nAbility to communicate clearly with business and technical audiences and manage work across global, cross-functional teams.\nStrong skills in accountability, organization, collaboration, customer focus, and managing priorities under time constraints.\nTop Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications\nExperience supporting Sales & Operations Planning, dealer demand or order planning, order management, product configuration, bill of materials, or manufacturing processes.\nKnowledge of S&OP business processes, data structures, batch cycles, interfaces, controls, and downstream dependencies.\nFamiliarity with C#/.NET and Python applications sufficient to support requirement analysis, issue triage, testing, and collaboration with developers.\nExperience with Oracle, Snowflake, Windows Server, FTP or secure file transfer, load-balanced applications, and operational-monitoring tools.\nExperience with Agile delivery methods, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow or comparable work-management and service-management tools.\nExperience supporting application-security findings, vulnerability remediation, dependency upgrades, and regression validation.\nAbility to use data and analytics to identify trends, validate business outcomes, define requirements, and support decision-making.\nKnowledge of Caterpillar planning, ordering, product-structure, and application-delivery processes is a plus.\nWhat You Will Have\nBusiness Analysis: Knowledge of methods for eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and managing business requirements; ability to translate stakeholder needs into actionable solution requirements and acceptance criteria.\nCore Application Systems: Knowledge of production application systems used to support internal and external clients; ability to analyze application behavior, dependencies, interfaces, and business impacts.\nAnalytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that support structured analysis; ability to interpret business processes and data, identify patterns, and distinguish root causes from symptoms.\nApplication Delivery Process: Knowledge of major delivery tasks, controls, and deliverables; ability to support requirements, testing, release readiness, implementation, and post-production validation.\nSystem and Technology Integration: Knowledge of how applications, databases, batch jobs, file transfers, and technology platforms exchange information; ability to analyze and document end-to-end data flows.\nSoftware Quality Management: Knowledge of test planning, traceability, defect management, regression testing, and acceptance practices; ability to confirm that delivered solutions meet business expectations.\nProblem Management: Knowledge of incident investigation and root cause analysis; ability to coordinate corrective and preventive actions for recurring operational issues.\nInformation Security Technologies: Knowledge of application-security concepts and remediation processes; ability to coordinate business-impact assessment, test planning, and validation for security-related changes.\nStakeholder Management: Ability to build effective relationships, facilitate decisions, communicate risks and dependencies, and align business and technical teams around clear outcomes.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nDOP and Global BOM requirements are clear, complete, actionable, and traceable to business outcomes.\nWD 10 processing is monitored and validated, with timely coordination and transparent stakeholder communication when issues occur.\nProduction issues are analyzed efficiently, business impact is understood, and sustainable corrective actions are implemented.\nEnhancements and fixes are thoroughly tested and released with minimal disruption to business operations.\nApplication, interface, process, and support documentation remains accurate and usable.\nBusiness and IT teams work from a shared understanding of scope, priorities, risks, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.\nContinuous-improvement opportunities reduce recurring issues, manual effort, and operational risk.\nWhat You Will Get\nWork Life Harmony\nEarned and medical leave.\nHolistic Development\nPersonal and professional development through Caterpillar's employee resource groups across the globe\nCareer development opportunities with global prospects\nHealth and Wellness\nMedical, life, and personal accident coverage\nEmployee mental wellness assistance program\nFinancial Wellness\nEmployee investment plan\nPay for performance through the annual incentive bonus plan\nAdditional Information\nCaterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. through the Caterpillar careers website. Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.\nSkill Descriptors\nCore Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.\nLevel Extensive Experience: \nManages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.\nEvaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.\nExplains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.\nImplements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.\nTracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.\nPlans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications. Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience: \nEnsures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.\nOrganizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.\nUses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.\nContributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.\nAnalyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.\nDevelops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems. Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design. Level Extensive Experience: \nAnalyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.\nDesigns complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.\nEvaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.\nLeads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.\nTroubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.\nPrepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications. Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design). Level Working Knowledge: \nTracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.\nResearches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.\nDrafts application software usage for the department's needs.\nProvides instant support for end users of application software.\nImplements a specific application software under the supervision of management. Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. 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