Caterpillar Inc.

Principal Architect – Manufacturing, Quality

Caterpillar Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: East PeoriaIllinoisTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $172,630 - $258,950 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

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