Solutions Architect – AI, Procurement

Caterpillar Inc.

Solutions Architect providing technical leadership for procurement platforms and AI capabilities at Caterpillar. Ensuring design governance and architectural alignment in enterprise-scale applications.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timePeoria • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $128,470 - $208,770 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudERPETLSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the end-to-end solution architect for Guided Buy and Coupa platforms, ensuring cohesive design across requisitioning, sourcing, purchasing, invoicing, supplier enablement, and downstream financial systems.
Design and govern integrations between Coupa/Guided Buy and upstream/downstream systems such as ERP, finance, supplier systems, middleware, data platforms, and reporting tools.
Define scalable, secure, and reusable architectural patterns for APIs, event-based integrations, data flows, and platform extensions.
Ensure architectural alignment with enterprise standards, IT controls, security, and SOX compliance requirements.
Act as AI Architect for procurement and purchasing platforms, designing how AI capabilities are embedded into Guided Buy and Coupa to improve user experience, compliance, efficiency, and insights.
Provide architectural guidance for building AI agents, copilots, and automation solutions, including prompt strategy, orchestration patterns, data grounding, and decision boundaries.
Establish and enforce AI governance practices, including design reviews, risk assessments, Responsible AI alignment, and lifecycle management of AI agents and models.
Perform code and solution reviews for AI-enabled components to ensure quality, maintainability, security, and architectural consistency.
Partner with Product Owners, Project managers, and development teams within an agile environment to translate business needs into clear, actionable technical designs and backlogs.
Guide teams through design decisions, trade-off analysis, and implementation best practices across sprints and releases.
Support solution planning for enhancements, upgrades, and modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy capabilities.
Own end‑to‑end troubleshooting and technical support for Guided Buy, Coupa, and the broader integrated solution landscape, partnering across teams to resolve complex cross‑system issues.
Mentor engineers and analysts on architecture principles, integration patterns, and AI solution design.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to procurement, finance, audit, security, IT, and external partners.
Lead or participate in architecture review boards, design governance forums, and change impact assessments.
Clearly communicate complex architectural concepts and risks to both technical and business audiences.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field;
6-8+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale business applications, with strong exposure to procurement, ERP, or financial systems.
Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.
Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
Knowledge of computer architecture and system software interaction; ability to design and build a fundamental architecture of operating systems, database management systems, communications protocols, compilers and other development tools.
Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
Proven ability to design and govern complex, integrated application ecosystems following SDLC process across cloud and on-prem environments.
Hands-on experience with Guided Buy, Coupa, or similar Source-to-Pay / P2P platforms.
Strong knowledge of APIs, middleware, ETL, event-driven architectures, and ERP integrations.
Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, LLMs, AI agents, and automation patterns applied to enterprise workflows.
Experience working within agile product teams, supporting backlog refinement, sprint execution, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 * These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architectureAPI designevent-based integrationsdata flowsAI architectureautomation solutionstechnical troubleshootingSDLCERP integrationsETL

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationadvisory skillscollaborationproblem-solvingtrade-off analysisdesign governancerisk assessmenttechnical guidanceagile methodology