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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.

OneStream Solution Architect

Role Definition:

Caterpillar is seeking an experienced OneStream Solution Architect to support the architecture and evolution of enterprise finance capabilities and solutions. The role will span OneStream, financial data integration, transformation, business rules, and financial master data management solutions, and other financial applications supporting consolidation, management reporting, planning, forecasting, analytics, and related finance processes.

You will partner with Finance, Information Technology, Data and Analytics, and business teams to translate strategic objectives and complex requirements into practical, scalable solutions. You will provide architecture guidance across the financial solution ecosystem—including applications, master data, business rules, integrations, reporting, and emerging capabilities—support major transformation initiatives and help teams make sound design decisions. The ideal candidate combines broad financial performance management knowledge, experience across multiple finance platforms, enterprise architecture expertise, and strong influencing skills.

What You Will Do:

• Provide architecture leadership across the financial solutions ecosystem, including OneStream, Harmonizer, Rules, Engine, Master Data Management, and related platforms.
• Translate finance strategies and business requirements into scalable solution concepts, target-state designs, and implementation approaches.
• Design end-to-end solutions spanning financial applications, master data, business rules, data flows, integrations, security, reporting, workflows, and user experience.
• Assess current-state finance processes and technology, identify gaps and opportunities, and recommend practical modernization and rationalization paths.
• Define how financial solutions work together to support consolidation, management reporting, planning, forecasting, analytics, data management, and other finance capabilities.
• Partners with Finance, Information Technology, Data and Analytics, cybersecurity, controllership, and business teams to align solution designs with enterprise needs.
• Evaluate technology and design options based on business value, usability, scalability, performance, security, controls, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Support implementations, enhancements, integrations, upgrades, and adoption of new financial capabilities across the solution portfolio.
• Provide technical direction and design guidance to architects, developers, administrators, analysts, and implementation partners.
• Ensure solutions support financial control, auditability, master data quality, operational stability, and sustainability support models.
• Communicate solution recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and investment needs to technical and executive audiences.
• Stay current on financial performance management, master data, rules automation, data, analytics, and emerging finance technology practices.

What You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Extensive progressive experience with enterprise financial systems, financial performance management, finance technology, or large-scale finance transformation.
• Significant experience architecting, implementing, or supporting a portfolio of financial solutions such as OneStream, financial data harmonization, rules engines, master data management, reporting, planning, or related platforms.
• Experience leading solution design for consolidation, planning, forecasting, management reporting, analytics, master data, financial rules, or related finance capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration, data architecture, security, financial controls, and application lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and directing internal teams and external partners in a large, global, matrixed organization.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Deep expertise in OneStream and experience with financial data integration, transformation, business rules, and financial master data management, or comparable enterprise financial solutions.
• Experience architecting financial performance management solutions for a Fortune 100 or similarly large, complex global organization.
• Experience across consolidation, management reporting, forecasting, xP&A, driver-based planning, dashboards, analytics, master data, and rules-based processing.
• Experience developing enterprise finance technology roadmaps, target-state architectures, and reusable solution patterns across multiple platforms.
• Experience integrating financial solutions with SAP, Snowflake, cloud data platforms, enterprise data warehouses, APIs, or connectors.
• Experience leading major upgrades, enterprise deployments, application rationalization, or finance system modernization.
• Knowledge of Caterpillar’s financial processes, technology environment, products, business units, customers, and global operations.
• Advanced degree or relevant finance, project management, architecture, OneStream, or master data certification.

Additional Info:

• Location for this role is Irving, TX or Peoria, IL.
• Must be able to work 5 days ONSITE.
• SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE.
• Relocation is available for qualified candidates.

Skills Descriptors:

Strategic Decision Making: Evaluates complex business and technical issues, weighs tradeoffs, and makes sound

architecture decisions with enterprise impact.

Leadership and Influence: Sets direction, leads through ambiguity, builds trusted relationships, and influences senior

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Financial Solutions Architecture: Applies broad architecture expertise across financial performance management,

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Finance and Business Acumen: Understands consolidation, management reporting, planning, forecasting, accounting,

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Systems Integration: Designs robust integrations among enterprise performance management, ERP, data, analytics,

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Communication: Explains complex topics clearly and facilitates decisions with technical teams, finance leaders, and

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Risk and Controls: Understands security, audit, financial controls, regulatory considerations, and operational resilience.

What You Will Get:

• Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
• Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays.
• All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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 one hundred 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:

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

Posting Dates:

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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