Principal Digital Architect – eCommerce
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Principal Digital Architect eCommerce
Role Overview
The Principal Digital Architect eCommerce plays a critical role in defining functional designs and endtoend eCommerce platform architectures across Cat Digitals commerce ecosystem. This role is accountable for producing highquality architecture and technical design artifacts solving complex business problems designing scalable resilient digital platforms and leading the evaluation and adoption of new technologies that improve eCommerce outcomes.
This position operates at a platform and enterprise scope as an individual contributor partnering closely with Product Engineering Enterprise Architecture Security Data and Operations. The role ensures architecture and technology decisions are scalable secure operable and aligned to enterprise standards providing leadership through architectural credibility technical depth and influence not through direct people management.
Key Responsibilities
eCommerce Platform Architecture Leadership
Define and evolve target and reference architectures for Cat Digitals eCommerce platforms including modular capability decomposition across:
Catalog pricing and promotions
Cart checkout and payments
Order orchestration and fulfillment
Content search and experience delivery
Platform and enterprise integrations
Create cohesive application and platform architectures that align business outcomes with architectural patterns and enterprise standards.
Provide architecture solutions grounded in business and technical requirements aligned with platform architecture processes and governance.
Build vs Buy POTs & Technology Assessments (Primary Accountability)
Lead build vs. buy evaluations for eCommerce and adjacent platform capabilities including commerce engines CMS PIM search personalization and integration platforms.
Define and execute Proofs of Technology (POTs) and technical assessments to validate:
Functional fit extensibility and customization boundaries
Integration feasibility and architectural patterns
Performance scalability and resiliency
Security posture and identity alignment
Operational readiness (monitoring logging alerting support models)
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and longterm sustainability
Lead the evaluation and adoption of new technologies to enhance eCommerce technical capabilities.
Produce architecture decision artifacts (tradeoff analyses RFCs ADRs) to enable transparent auditable decisions.
Architecture Governance & Functional Design
Translate business and product requirements into welldefined architectural designs with clear service boundaries ownership models and APIs.
Participate in and reinforce architecture and design reviews ensuring compliance with enterprise principles standards and policies.
Guide teams in adopting open composable and APIfirst eCommerce architectures aligned with enterprise strategy.
HandsOn Technical Architecture
Design and influence cloudnative distributed architectures for enterprise eCommerce platforms (AWS preferred).
Define and guide API and integration strategies including RESTful and eventdriven patterns.
Ensure nonfunctional requirements are embedded by design:
Reliability scalability and fault tolerance
Securitybydesign and identity integration
Observability (monitoring logging tracing)
Incident readiness and operational excellence
Delivery Augmentation & Execution Support (IC Model)
Actively augment delivery teams by:
Unblocking architecture and platform decisions
Validating implementation alignment with target architectures
Reducing downstream rework through early architectural clarity
Provide handson guidance through architectural spikes reference implementations and reusable golden path patterns that accelerate delivery.
Critical Skills & Knowledge
Architecture & Functional Skills
Requirements analysis and decomposition into scalable enterpriseready architectures
Tradeoff analysis (build vs. buy cost vs. scale reuse vs. customization)
Architecture governance standards alignment and decision documentation
Strong consulting and influence skills across crossfunctional stakeholders
Technical Skills
Enterprise platform architecture and distributed systems design
Cloudnative architecture (AWS preferred)
APIfirst and eventdriven integration patterns
Securitybydesign reliability engineering and operational readiness
Domain Expertise (Preferred)
eCommerce / Digital Commerce platforms (B2B and/or B2C)
Modular and composable commerce capabilities
CMS PIM (e.g. Akeneo or equivalent) and search platforms
Education & Experience
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience
Typically 15 years of experience in software engineering and digital/platform architecture including enterprisescale platform decisions and technology evaluations
Principal Digital Architect eCommerce
Consults on planning integrating and migrating enterprise eCommerce platforms
Designs and governs cohesive scalable application and platform architectures
Guides architects and engineering teams on standards architectural best practices and longterm roadmaps
Leads technology evaluation and adoption to improve platform scalability security operability and business outcomes
Posting Dates:
April 2 2026 - April 9 2026Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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About Company
Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
