Career Area:
Technology, Digital and DataJob Description:
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.
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse teams representative of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.
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.
About Cat Financial
Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., 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 more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.
Role Definition
Manages employees that are responsible for projects, development teams and application or infrastructure support or operations functions within the data platform and technologies team along with the following disciplines:
Custom Application Area: MS Power Platform, Java Applications and Streamlit
Accountability for Middleware Team: Real time integrations (API and Web Services), file transfer
Responsibilities
• Oversee application programming and analysis projects which include development, installation and maintenance of application programs.
• Maximize staff contribution through professional growth and development, to increase teamwork and more effectively meet business needs.
• Analyze and provide strategy regarding applications or infrastructure to ensure that all systems that are developed, meet business needs and specifications.
• Monitor and maintain adherence and compliance to cybersecurity and quality standards on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for expense and capital budgets.
• Monitors and communicates vendor effectiveness, reliability, and performance.
• Builds and maintains relationships with key internal business partners.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Comments on the organization's business model and financial goals.
• Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
• Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
• Participates in business task to get things done in own unit or area.
• Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.
Continuous Transformation: Knowledge of evolving the business to remain competitive; ability to understand, adapt oneself to, respond to and proactively seek changes and innovation in the business environment to improve the competitive advantage of an organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Implements new systems, procedures and tools efficiently when changes occur in the work environment.
• Adjusts current working processes or adopts new approaches in response to changes in the business environment.
• Seeks challenging opportunities or assignments to grow and develop one's own knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Explains lessons or experiences learned from mistakes and failures as well as successes.
• Communicates and analyzes assumptions about a particular issue with colleagues to gain new perspectives or more effective solutions.
Talent Management: Knowledge of the critical competencies required to achieve intended results; ability to generate consistent approaches for hiring, selection, retaining and leveraging talent across the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Recommends improvements to talent management initiatives based on analysis of data on their effectiveness.
• Maintains strong relationships with formal and informal mentors.
• Implements systems and methods for supporting talent management programs.
• Negotiates for key developmental experiences and transitional experiences.
• Introduces contacts from personal and professional networks to hiring managers.
Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
• Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
• Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
• Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.
• Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.
Matrix Management: Understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Analyzes issues and determines who needs to be consulted or updated.
• Helps others in understanding their roles and responsibilities within a matrix.
• Builds networks and effective working relationships in relevant organizational areas.
• Works to achieve consensus across organizational and functional lines.
• Describes viewpoints of several functional groups.
• Obtains timely decisions from multiple parties in an efficient manner.
Vendor/Supplier Management: Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers (e.g., vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants, and suppliers).
Level Expert:
• Leads a team in managing collaborative relationships with multiple vendors or suppliers.
• Provides comprehensive knowledge of industry practices with using external or third parties.
• Evaluates vendor or supplier's plans and directions and potential impact on the organization.
• Develops rationale and best practices for use of external vendor/supplier resources.
• Shares experiences with managing and integrating products and services from multiple vendors or suppliers.
• Consults on service provider problems and corrects or terminates as appropriate.
Cybersecurity Standards and Policies: Knowledge of developing cybersecurity policies, standards, and procedures; ability to develop and communicate policies, standards, and procedures that guide interactions with customers.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Coaches the staff on industry cyber security standards and recommended practices.
• Collaborates organization-wide to develop strategies for measuring good security practices and compliance.
• Consults on development and implementation of cross-functional standards and policies.
• Oversees the development of organizational cybersecurity policies and standards.
• Partners with other functions on establishing and documenting joint standards.
• Monitors the implementation of cybersecurity standards and polices in projects or services.
Budget Management: Knowledge of the principles and methodology of budget management; ability to utilize the tools, techniques and procedures needed to establish and monitor budgets.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Analyzes budgets for patterns and causes of budgeting inaccuracies.
• Teaches others the details of and rationale behind organization's budget cycles.
• Participates in establishing procedures for planning, implementing and monitoring budgets.
• Supervises budget management activities across multiple departments or functions.
• Integrates budget data and processes from multiple and diverse areas.
• Works with capital budgets, operating budgets and cash budgets.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Summary Pay Range:
$135,240.00 - $237,564.00Compensation 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:
Annual incentive bonus plan*
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
401k savings plan
Health savings account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Healthy Lifestyle Programs
Employee Assistance Programs
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
Tuition Reimbursement
Career Development
*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines .
Relocation is available for this position.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.Posting Dates:
January 28, 2025 - February 4, 2025Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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