Senior Digital Architect – Senior Data Solution Architect

Caterpillar Inc.

Senior Digital Architect designing data architecture and digital solutions for Caterpillar. Collaborating with teams and managing data contracts to meet business needs and quality expectations.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeChennai • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudIoTNoSQLSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and deliver solution architecture artifacts that address business problems and support successful implementation.
Translate business requirements into scalable data and digital solutions by leveraging platform capabilities across data, analytics, intelligent agents, and applications.
Lead solution design activities with a strong focus on mapping business requirements to source data, ensuring clear traceability from business need through source alignment, transformation logic, and downstream consumption.
Define and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models that support operational and analytical use cases across enterprise platforms.
Define API and interface models that support reliable data exchange across source systems, platforms, and downstream consumers.
Establish and maintain data contracts with source systems, including agreement on data definitions, schema, ownership, quality expectations, delivery timeliness, and change management.
Own data quality expectations within assigned solutions by defining validation rules, controls, reconciliation checks, and monitoring requirements across the data lifecycle.
Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to evaluate technology options and support the adoption of tools and capabilities that improve solution delivery.
Collaborate across cross-functional teams to ensure solution designs are practical, scalable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards and business outcomes.
Provide architecture guidance to delivery teams and help resolve design issues related to data integration, source alignment, data modelling, and implementation readiness.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Progressive career in data engineering, data architecture, or solution architecture (typically 12+ years)
Demonstrated experience designing and delivering solution architecture for enterprise-scale applications and data platforms in public cloud or hybrid environments.
Strong experience in AWS ecosystem is preferred.
Strong experience in data modeling, including physical data modeling, schema design, entity relationships, and optimization for operational and analytical use cases.
Demonstrated ability to map business requirements to source data, including source system analysis, attribute mapping, data dictionary, transformation design, data lineage and end-to-end traceability.
Proven experience owning or driving data quality as part of solution delivery, including validation rules, reconciliation logic, defect identification, and fit-for-purpose data controls.
Experience establishing and managing data contracts with source systems, including schema alignment, data definitions, quality expectations, latency expectations, and change coordination.
Strong understanding and practical experience in three or more of the following areas: Real-time event and message processing, Data lakes and modern data platforms, Large-scale data transformation and analytics, IoT edge and cloud data processing, SQL and NoSQL data Modeling, Integration of operational and analytical systems.
Understanding of vector database and knowledge graph modelling will be an advantage.
Good understanding of Agile delivery practices in cloud environments, including environment management, peer review, test automation, CI/CD, and resource optimization.
Hands-on experience designing or developing solutions in a public cloud environment.
Familiarity with Agentic AI, AI/ML-enabled solutions, analytics platforms, and data-driven applications.
Understanding of enterprise data integration patterns and analytical ecosystems.
Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to guide design discussions, mentor team members, and communicate effectively on complex or sensitive topics.
Experience across multiple business processes, platforms, or IT disciplines is beneficial.
Experience in manufacturing and/or supply chain domains is a plus.
This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the Hosur Facility.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work Life Harmony
Earned and medical leave.
Relocation assistance
Holistic Development
Personal and professional development through Caterpillar ‘s employee resource groups across the globe
Career developments opportunities with global prospects
Health and Wellness
Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage
Employee mental wellness assistance program
Financial Wellness
Employee investment plan
Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architecturedata modelingphysical data modelingschema designentity relationshipsdata qualitydata transformationdata integrationAWSAgile delivery practices

Soft Skills

collaborationinterpersonal skillscommunicationmentoringguiding design discussions