Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.
Job Summary:
As the Lead Digital Architect (Marketing Data), you will define and own the end-to-end data architecture powering marketing analytics, attribution, audience segmentation, and personalized experiences. You'll partner with Marketing, MarTech, Product, and Data Engineering to deliver scalable, privacy-compliant data platforms and real-time decisioning that measurably improves campaign performance and customer LTV.
What You Will Do:
Lead the end-to-end Marketing Data Architecture, defining scalable frameworks and data structures that enable seamless activation, analytics, and cross-channel orchestration.
Establish and evolve Customer 360 and identity-resolution capabilities, ensuring unified customer profiles that power personalization, targeting, and measurement across the digital ecosystem.
Architect real-time activation and personalization pipelines, enabling event-driven experiences, dynamic segmentation, and rapid decisioning across MarTech and AdTech platforms.
Develop analytical data models that support reporting, advanced analytics, and data science, ensuring high-quality, well-governed datasets for stakeholders across marketing, sales, and product teams.
Integrate MarTech and AdTech ecosystem components, ensuring seamless data flow, interoperability, and aligned architecture across CDP, CRM, DSP, DMP, marketing automation, analytics, and advertising platforms.
Lead the design and expansion of cloud data platforms and lakehouse architectures, enabling scalable ingestion, transformation, storage, and activation of large-scale marketing datasets.
Ensure privacy, compliance, and consent-management foundations are embedded into all data flows, aligning with global regulations and internal governance standards.
Apply ML and AI techniques to power marketing use cases, such as predictive targeting, look-alike modeling, churn prediction, content recommendations, and budget optimization.
Drive security and governance practices, ensuring data protection, role-based access, quality controls, and consistency across the marketing technology stack.
Provide strong stakeholder leadership, partnering with marketing, product, engineering, analytics, and external vendors to shape strategy, align roadmaps, and deliver enterprise-scale digital marketing capabilities.
What You Will Have:
Target Architecture: Extensive knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
Data Architecture: Extensive knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
Application Design, Architecture: Extensive 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 designs.
Platform Architecture: Extensive knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes
Analytical Thinking: Extensive 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.
Effective Communications: Working 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.
Requirements Analysis: Working knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
IT Architecture: Extensive knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations
Considerations for Top Candidates:
Cloud & Storage: Azure or GCP or AWS; Lakehouse: SnowflakeMarTech/AdTech & CDP: Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Any Activation Platform.
Ability to design end to end digital ecosystems that align technology with business strategy.
Typically 8+ years' experience in application development or at least 6 years of experience with master's degree.
Strong grasp of TOGAF, Zachman, or domain-driven design
Extensive experience in designing and developing software using Python, SQL, Scala (typically 5+ years)
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, profiling & optimization, data modeling techniques.
Strong demonstratable experience delivering component, product, and/or enterprise architecture in public cloud and/or hybrid eco-systems.
Understanding of Agile SDLC implementation in public cloud eco-system including environments management, test automation, peer review, CI/CD, resource optimization, etc.
Must have excellent communication and influential skills
Additional Information:
This position will have the option to be based out of our Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL offices.
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What You Will Get:
Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We've created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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
These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
January 29, 2026 - February 16, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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