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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.

Who is CAT Digital? What do we do? 

Big machines require big thinking. Are you looking for your next big challenge? 

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 one million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.

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.

 
Job Opportunity:

We are seeking talented individuals to join our team to help grow our presence, organization, culture, which will drive our digital product development efforts. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with top professionals working on very high impact and visibility products. Don't miss this chance to join and support digital innovation for a global leader in heavy machinery!

 
What will you do? 

As the Senior Software Architect you will be responsible for defining functional designs and application systems architecture across various digital platforms. You will also: 

• Develop detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.

• Oversee the architecture of cross-platform mobile applications and manage technical priorities.

• Lead the evaluation and deployment of new technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities. 

• Translate business requirements into technical direction, provide leadership and mentoring to engineering teams, facilitate design discussions, and guide cross-functional teams toward digital solutions that meet business objectives.

• Coordinate with upstream teams and stakeholders, assess dependencies for upcoming changes, and determine which capabilities should be implemented in the BFF, reused from existing upstream services, or shared across services.

• Support bug triage and coordinate the resolution of complex problems that require fixes across multiple teams.

• Ensure that solutions address security, performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability requirements.

This position works directly with Slovakia based engineering leadership and Cat Digital IT in the US. 

What you have:

Background and experience:

• Incremental modernization and continuous improvement: ability to assess the gap between the current and desired state, make pragmatic trade-offs, and define measurable steps toward improvement across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons.

• 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 

• Analytical Thinking: 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. 

• Application Design, Architecture: 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. 

• Data Architecture: 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. 

• IT Architecture: Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations. 

• Platform Architecture: 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. 

• Experience leading responsive design application development teams.  

• Experience with React Native 

• Very good knowledge of JavaScript, and Git.  

• Understanding of REST APIs, document request model.  

• Excellent communication skills.    

Top Candidates will also have: 

• Formal education in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.  

• Passion for design systems, code reusability and maintainability.    

• Interest in cross-platform mobile development.    

• Leadership experience on strategic projects.

What we offer: 
At Cat Digital, we are committed to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning, and we believe in investing in the development of our employees. As a member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as very competitive compensation and benefits packages, like:

• From 4402 up to 5900 euros / month gross

• Performance related annual cash incentive

• Industry leading Pension plan 

• 5 days of extra vacation above the legislative requirement

• Attractive Life insurance

• 1 voluntiering day

• Multisport Card

Take the chance to apply now for this position at Cat Digital Slovakia branch!

Contract type:

Full-time

Place of work:

Kosice, Slovakia

Additional Information:

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.​

Caterpillar is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. For more information, visit https://www.caterpillar.com/en/careers/why-caterpillar.html​

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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