Team Lead Technical Infrastructure

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. 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.

To develop and support the system solution functionality required as part of IT applications and transformations.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Guides team to consult on client requirements and propose technology solutions and business cases; guide in evaluating, selecting and utilizing new and existing tools and techniques.
• Provide subject matter expertise and solutions on comprehensive technology issues for internal and external customers.
• Leads a team and assists with the design, testing and technology implementation of technical projects, while collaborating with IT staff.
• Ensure that the design and implementation of technologies are compliance with existing standards and processes.

Skill Descriptors:

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective olutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Technology Advising: Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Collaborates with an extended professional technology network to help clients effectively identify, plan for and accomplish technology objectives.
• Supervises others in advising a range of clients across a myriad of products, technologies, services and solutions in a relevant technology domain.
• Identifies and evaluates emerging technologies and advises clients regarding their potential business impacts.
• Effectively consults with and conveys technology concepts, business impacts and other advice to senior client levels.
• Trains others in developing technology business, channel management and client coaching.
• Leverages formal certifications in mastery of multiple areas of technology in demonstrating credibility for client consulting.

Talent Management: Knowledge of the critical competencies required to achieve intended results; ability to generate consistent approaches for hiring, selection, retaining and leveraging talent across the organization.

Level Basic Understanding:

• Explains how the concept of a career path can be used to identify future desired roles.
• Identifies the key roles and responsibilities in the group and the career ladder for the function.
• Demonstrates the ability to help integrate new members into the team.
• Seeks guidance in obtaining long-term developmental opportunities.

Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.
• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.

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.

Level Expert:

• Creates leadership positions in identifying and implementing new tools and techniques.
• Shares expertise and his/her broad experience in using modeling tools for multiple requirements.
• Implements best practices for functional and information analysis and maintains the requirements definition.
• Provides insight into developing diverse and multiple requirements analyses.
• Monitors industry and vendor products in terms of improvements and enhancements.
• Establishes and communicates on advance technical standards for each stage of requirements analysis.

Mandatory Requirements:

• BS degree (Computer science, Information Technology, Industrial, Mechatronic, Electronic, Finance or related field.)
• 80% English level, written and oral communication
• Proven Lidership Experience
• Experience on leading improvement projects
• System Thinking and Problem Solving
• Good judgment and superior communication skills.
• Six Sigma Black Belt.

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Caterpillar Reman Process
• Experience working with QAD
• Project Management advanced skills
• ERP deployment, Software Architecture, Software Development or related experience

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