Principal Digital Architect, Onboard & Site Data

Caterpillar

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irving, TX
Salary
$147,760–$240,110 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 29, 2026

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This role $194k
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This role pays less than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $167,650–$257,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $194k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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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 57 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Digital Architect, Onboard & Site Data

The Principal Digital Architect - Onboard & Site Data joins the team to define the data architecture enabling Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn, reason, and operate at scale. This role is responsible for establishing data contracts, standardizing schemas, semantics, timestamps, units, identity, and metadata to ensure reliable information flow from machine and site systems into enterprise ingestion platforms. The architect will design technical infrastructure including databases and testing approaches while leading the evaluation of new technologies to enhance digital capabilities. Key responsibilities include defining requirements for sensor information, quality, latency, and versioning. The role requires expertise in data architecture, domain modeling, and AI/machine learning data foundations like training datasets and feature engineering. This position addresses the complex challenge of construction autonomy by managing machine telemetry, sensor data, digital twins, and edge-to-cloud architectures.

What you'll do

  • Define data architecture that enables Physical AI and autonomous systems to learn and operate at scale.
  • Establish data contracts for reliable information flow between machine sensors and enterprise ingestion platforms.
  • Standardize schemas, semantics, timestamps, units, identity, and metadata across the ecosystem.
  • Specify requirements for data quality, completeness, latency, and versioning.
  • Design technical infrastructure including specific databases, programming languages, and testing approaches.
  • Lead the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to enhance digital capabilities.
  • Develop architectural roadmaps and blueprints that align with business strategies and objectives.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in software engineering and architecture with a focus on data (typically +).
  • Ability to design enterprise data domains, canonical models, metadata strategies, and scalable architectures for AI ecosystems (preferred).
  • Understanding of data requirements for the AI lifecycle, including training sets, feature engineering, and vector data (preferred).
  • Knowledge of machine telemetry, sensor data, digital twins, and edge-to-cloud architectures (preferred).
  • Ability to influence senior leaders, define roadmaps, and provide technical direction across multiple organizations (preferred).
  • Proficiency in designing technical infrastructure including databases, programming languages, and testing approaches.
  • Ability to perform requirements analysis to elicit and record business functionality for software projects.
  • Excellent communication skills to mentor others and persuade stakeholders on new technologies or solutions.

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