Lead Digital Technical Specialist

Caterpillar Inc.

Lead Digital Technical Specialist at Caterpillar, ensuring technical integrity and scalability of digital solutions. Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver targeted, data-driven insights across systems.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $128,470 - $192,710 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and enforce PAL system standards, including structure, attributes, and lifecycle
Ensure consistent PAL logic and behavior across domains (DNA, PSE, Service, etc.)
Govern the PAL data model and canonical object definition
Partner with engineering teams to ensure scalable, reliable implementation
Oversee integration with core components, including PAL Engine (logic execution), Applications (Control Center, Inform, Direct), and AI services
Ensure PALs are technically correct, operationally consistent and scalable across dealers and use cases
Drive alignment on the PAL lifecycle (creation, update, execution, feedback)
Define and enforce governance for PAL updates, versioning, and data consistency

Requirements

What you’ll need

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results.
Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Data Warehousing: Knowledge of how to collect data from different information sources and distribute them to users; ability to simplify information systems and make sound business decisions.
Systems Software Infrastructure: 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.
Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data WarehousingSystems Software InfrastructureApplication ArchitectureIntegration ManagementLogic Execution

Soft Skills

Customer FocusEffective CommunicationsSystems Thinking