
Principal Architect – Manufacturing, Quality
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: East Peoria • Illinois • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $172,630 - $258,950 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define target state for modern manufacturing platforms including MES, plant integration, Industrial IoT, and manufacturing analytics.
- Establish architecture frameworks enabling digitally connected factories and standardized manufacturing platforms.
- Guide the evolution of manufacturing systems toward scalable, composable and event driven architectures.
- Architect next-generation quality management systems supporting predictive quality, defect analytics, and automated inspection.
- Enable integration of quality data across design, manufacturing, and supplier ecosystems.
- Support adoption of AI-driven quality insights and closed-loop quality management.
- Define architecture patterns that integrate: MES, ERP, quality systems, Industrial IoT, and manufacturing analytics.
- Ensure manufacturing data flows through standardized data contracts and event streams supporting enterprise data platforms and digital twins.
- Drive rationalization of landscapes and enable global scale while support plant-level flexibility.
- Partner across a broad range of stakeholders to ensure architectural alignment.
- Serve as the architecture authority for manufacturing and quality domains.
Requirements
- Experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture or manufacturing systems architecture.
- Deep experience with manufacturing systems integration and plant technology environments.
- Proven ability to architect solutions across MES, ERP, quality systems, and industrial data platforms.
- Experience supporting large-scale manufacturing transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of industrial manufacturing processes and plant operations.
- Expertise in integration architecture and enterprise platform design.
- Business Assessment: Knowledge of the activities, tasks, practices and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities; ability to assess the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
- 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.
- Architecture Modelling: Knowledge of Architecture Modelling; ability to develop and modify enterprise architecture through conceptual, logical and physical approaches.
- Core 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.
- Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
- Application Modernization: Knowledge of the concepts, processes and technologies of application modernization; ability to design, develop and deploy modernized applications in various business scenarios.
- System and Technology Integration: Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architecturesolution architecturemanufacturing systems architecturemanufacturing systems integrationplant technology environmentsintegration architectureenterprise platform designarchitecture modellingapplication modernizationsoftware product design
Soft Skills
analytical thinkingbusiness assessment