Principal Digital Architect

Caterpillar

Actively hiring
Peoria, IL Posted 22 days ago $159,120–$258,570 / year
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TL;DR

Caterpillar Inc. is hiring a Principal Digital Architect at its Peoria facility to lead the design and implementation of large-scale data lakes and enterprise data warehousing projects using tools like Redshift and Snowflake in both on-premise and cloud environments. This role involves developing end-to-end automated ETL pipelines with technologies such as Hadoop, AWS EMR, and AWS Glue, while also managing data architecture for public and hybrid cloud systems in AWS and Azure. The Principal Digital Architect will work on big data transformations, SQL and NoSQL data modeling, and database management using AWS RDS, DynamoDB, and other tools. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with software development at scale, CI/CD deployment, message brokers like Kafka, and API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge or Azure API Gateway, all within an Agile framework.

Skills

AWS Azure Redshift Snowflake Hadoop AWS EMR AWS Glue SQL NoSQL AWS RDS PostgreSQL Aurora DynamoDB MongoDB Cassandra Redis Elasticsearch MySQL Oracle Jenkins GoCD Azure DevOps Apache Spark Flink Kafka RabbitMQ AWS SQS AWS SNS Apigee Edge API Gateway Linux Unix CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Design large-scale data lakes and enterprise data warehousing projects using cloud-native solutions like Redshift & Snowflake.
  • Drive development of end-to-end automated ETL pipelines using Hadoop Technologies, AWS EMR, and AWS Glue.
  • Lead data architecture for public cloud systems in AWS, Azure, and hybrid ecosystems.
  • Implement big data transformations and SQL/NoSQL data modeling across various database technologies.
  • Manage structured and unstructured data modeling requirements using AWS RDS, DynamoDB, and NoSQL databases.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or related field and 10 years of software development experience.
  • Experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale software systems.
  • Proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases like AWS RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra.
  • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) for deployment and maintenance of software applications.
  • Strong background in data architecture, including ETL pipelines, data lakes, and big data transformations.
  • Experience working within Agile frameworks such as Scrum and using CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GoCD.
  • Knowledge of message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and API proxies on platforms like Apigee Edge or AWS API Gateway.

Market check

Salary context

This $159,120–$258,570 range sits above 54% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$153,500–$257,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$169,000–$235,750

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world''s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Industry: Heavy Equipment & Manufacturing

Caterpillar currently has 12 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,587–$183,140 across 12 roles with salary data.

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