Senior Manager Software Engineering Experience Stack

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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.

Were hiring a Senior Manager Software Engineering to lead multiple teams in our Experience Stack i.e. UX design and engineering frameworks that power user-facing web/mobile experiences design systems and experimentation platforms.

You will also own the UX design function for key applications and ensure consistent high-quality user experiences across platforms including Web Mobile and Machine interfaces.

This is a leader-of-leader role accountable for UX design UI engineering roadmap delivery quality and people leadership.

What Youll Do

• Lead and grow engineering managers and senior technical leaders; build a high-performance culture grounded in clarity accountability and inclusion.
• Own organizational design capacity planning career paths and succession for a multi-team org.
• Coach EMs on delivery hiring and technical decision-making; raise the leadership bar.
• Own UX design team leadership and integration across engineering and product teams.

• You will define the technical roadmap for the experience layer design system evolution front-end (web/mobile) platforms BFF/API orchestration performance (Core Web Vitals) accessibility (WCAG) SEO experimentation/personalization observability common micro-front ends/applications and unified and consistent experience
• Influence and align with Product Design Data Platform and Security.
• Translate product roadmap into sequenced measurable milestones.
• Communicate roadmap trade-offs and progress to stakeholders.

• Establish operational cadence (quarterly planning release planning weekly reviews release governance).
• Drive predictable delivery across multiple teams using metrics (lead time change failure rate uptime Core Web Vitals a11y defects SEO health experiment velocity).
• Ensure on-time on-quality releases with robust QA/canary/progressive rollouts.
• Own the Design System (tokens components theming documentation) and its governance.
• Own common standard micro front ends/micro apps their strategy implementations governance operations and metrics
• Partner with Platform/Cloud teams on scalability reliability security and cost efficiency.
• Oversee the architecture of front-end platforms (e.g. Web Components/React/) BFFs (Node/Java) CDN/edge and caching.

• Scale best practices for CI/CD trunk-based development test automation observability SLOs incident response and postmortems.
• Champion Core Web Vitals accessibility (WCAG) and SEO as first-class objectives.

• Scale feature flags A/B testing and personalization across surfaces; set guardrails and ethics.
• Integrate with analytics & data science to turn insights into measurable outcomes.

• Ensure compliance with privacy-by-design data governance and secure SDLC.
• Champion threat modeling and remediate vulnerabilities within committed SLAs.

• Drive UI innovation across platforms including Web Mobile and Machine interfaces.
• Introduce modern interaction patterns (including AI) animations and responsive design principles.
• Foster a culture of creativity and experimentation in user interface development.

UX Design Responsibilities

• Own the UX design strategy and delivery for key applications and ensure alignment with product and engineering goals.
• Ensure consistent and high-quality user experiences across Web Mobile and Machine interfaces.
• Collaborate closely with UX designers researchers and product managers to translate user insights into design and technical execution.
• Govern the design system to maintain consistency accessibility and scalability across platforms.
• Drive adoption of UX best practices and design thinking across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 15 years in software engineering; 7 years leading software teams.
• Proven success running multi-team orgs delivering complex user-facing systems at scale.
• Deep experience in the Experience stack: Web/Mobile (React/ Typescript Node BFF/Edge CDN) UX design (Figma) Performance & SEO Accessibility (WCAG) Design Systems Experimentation (LaunchDarkly Optimizely).
• Experience with micro-frontends module federation design token pipelines.
• Strong delivery leadership (planning execution metrics risk management incident response).
• Excellent people leadershiphiring coaching feedback performance cycles.
• Cloud-native experience CI/CD observability.

Technical Competencies & Tools

• Front-End Frameworks: Web Components React TypeScript HTML5 CSS.
• Design Systems: Design tokens component libraries Storybook theming.
• Collaboration Tools: Figma Jira Confluence.
• Accessibility: WCAG compliance semantic HTML automated a11y testing (axe Pa11y) jaws.
• Backend for Frontend (BFF): Express GraphQL REST APIs.
• Performance & SEO: Core Web Vitals RUM tools structured data.
• Experimentation: Feature flags A/B testing platforms (LaunchDarkly Optimizely).
• CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps Artifactory.
• Cloud & Edge: AWS/Azure CDN (Akamai CloudFront).
• Observability: DataDog Grafana New Relic Sentry.
• APIs backend development using java/other technologies.

Nice to Have

• Mobile (iOS/Android/React Native/Flutter) platform leadership.
• Background in security/privacy regionalization/localization multitenancy.

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