Digital Technical Analyst

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Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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.

For Caterpillar digital means using technology to extract data from our machines and engines and transform it into valuable recommendations and insights to help customers make better more informed decisions and help Caterpillar make robust products with the lowest total ownership cost. Our products generate and process large amounts of data from sensors onboard models and control algorithms in realtime creating realworld machine usage information to provide condition monitoring and fleet management services.

About the Role

As a Digital Technical Analyst you will be involved in specifying functional requirements and developing solution concepts to address customer needs across onasset electronic systems and our digital platforms. You will be responsible for gathering new customer connectivity feature requests refining these requests guiding them through the architecture development and validation process and ensuring their timely delivery.

As a Digital Technical Analyst you will collaborate with Cat Digital architecture platform and applications teams and execute on new technology implementation research and evaluation of emerging digital technologies and solutions.

This Digital Technical Analyst position will be in Peoria IL within Enterprise Connectivity team inside the CAT Digital organization which has enterprise accountability for telematics and telecommunications product line strategy rationalization quality and cost. This position will be critical in gathering connectivity (telematics) requirements for various projects across the industries and business units consolidating and rationalizing that input and considering tradeoffs in costs and functionality to drive optimal enterprise solutions for the global market. You will also be accountable for the delivery of the resulting product line solutions for factories and aftermarket.

What you will do:

• Responsible for gathering connectivity feature requests from customers. Follows policies practices and standards for determining functional and nonfunctional requirements

• Participate in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with crossfunctional teams to deliver digital solutions that meets business results

• Collaborate with performing organizations with respect to deliverables associated with requirements. Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements. Utilizes specific organizational methods tools and techniques for requirements analysis

• Collaborate with Cat Digital IC&S and product groups to design an applications technical infrastructure such as specific databases utilities verification and validation approaches

• Will require interfacing with customers including Construction Industries Resource Industries Energy & Transportation and Aftermarket

• Assist in creating prioritizing and maintaining the connectivity feature request backlog

• Participate in the technical design of a specific application or solution (onboard/offboard). Select and present design alternatives for application(s) of small to medium complexity. Define tasks activities deliverables and key concerns of technical design. Assists in reviewing and documenting technical application designs

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

• Works with specific development platforms system and program design tools

• Oversee and ensure the timely delivery of connectivity features through collaboration with development partners in both ICS and Cat Digital. This entails shepherding features through architectural assessment engineering forecasting release commitment validation and delivery

• Communicate the status of feature requests to stakeholders and customers in clear concise and compelling manner

What you will have skills and experiences

• 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

• 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

• Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches tools and techniques; ability to anticipate recognize and resolve technical issues on hardware software application or operation

Degree Requirements

Bachelors degree or higher in electrical engineering computer engineering or related field

Top candidates will also have

• Minimum cumulative GPA requirement 3.0/ 4.0 (no rounding)

• Expected graduation date between January 2024 through June 2025

• Knowledge of machine systems and/or telematics/connectivity space

• Understanding of connectivity endtoend architecture (onboard to offboard)

• Understanding of development and validation process for both onboard and offboard feature development

• Experience managing projects and feature delivery with Azure DevOps

• Requirements gathering and documentation experience with customers

• Fundamental understanding of mobile machine operation ideally construction equipment and operations

• Strong accountability planning/organization and teamwork

• Must have demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to perform complex assignments

• Requires a selfstarter with strong technical skills

• Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with team members and others in the work group as well as employees in other business units customers and suppliers.

Additional Information

• The location for this position is Peoria IL

• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position dependent on relocation qualifications

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjobrelated 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 parttime employees

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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