IT Architect

**Career Area**:
Business Technologies, Digital and Data

**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.

**Your Impact 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.

**Job Summary**

We are seeking a skilled **IT Architect **to join our team who will have the opportunity to champion our **GCIO Manufacturing Support _CAT IT Division **. The incumbent would be joining Caterpillar’s Autonomy and Automation IT team and would Expect to design, architect and deliver sophisticated solutions for the Autonomy and Automation (A&A) team.

The preference for this role is to be based out of **Chennai - Brigade World Trade Center**

**What you will do**
- Successfully lead, design, architect and deliver sophisticated solutions for the Autonomy and Automation (A&A) team including Cloud (AWS, Azure), software engineering DevOps solutions (GitHub, ADO) and Infrastructure as a Code architectures (containers)
- Provide advice and guidance to other site engineers regarding technical and design decisions and well as evaluation, and facilitation for the development of current and future architecture.
- Design for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
- Review, advise, and provide assessments on architectures produced within and outside the team.
- Lead the end-to-end solution design and architecture for key company initiatives.
- Deliver architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
- Designing and implementing highly scalable and reliable systems using Kubernetes
- Creating and maintaining the architecture for Kubernetes solutions, taking into account the specific needs and constraints of the organization
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines Leading the deployment and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters
- Ensuring security and compliance requirements are met within the Kubernetes environment

**What you will have**:

- 5+ years in a technical leadership or lead developer role
- Proven track record of designing and implementing IT solutions including Cloud (AWS and/or Azure)
- Strong knowledge of cloud security Proven experience with DevOps pipeline architecture, deployment, and tools and/or Web App development
- Experience with tools similar to Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Grafana, InfluxDB, SonarQube, Jupyter Notebook, OpenCV, Bamboo, PostgreSQL, BitBucket, Robot Framework, Conan
- Experience in Git, Python, Typescript/Javascript preferred

**Experience with containers preferred**
- Experience with Linux environments, preferably Ubuntu Proven track record as a technical lead and mentor to other network engineers
Excellent written/oral communication skills for management reports and presentations
- Diplomatic ability to influence others and mix with all levels of the business
- Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders
- Understanding of NIST framework and control audits
- Ability to competently mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions

**Preferred Experience**
- Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SaFE) methodology
- Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, Git Actions and/or Jenkins
- Experience with the CLI, PowerShell cmdlets, and/or REST APIs.

**Skills Desired**:
Level Extensive Experience:
**Analytical Thinking**: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Level Working Knowledg