Digital Architect - HR Technology

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job 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.
Digital Architect - HR Technology
Participates in defining functional designs and application systems architecture across various digital platforms.
What You Will Do:

• Partner closely with Caterpillar IT to maintain an end-to-end view of the HR tech stack, including current-state architecture and target state development.
• Drive architectural and data integration capability, defining patterns that enable reuse, scalability, and clean integrations across tools.
• Developing detailed architecture deliverables to solve business problems.
• Designing an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.
• Leading the evaluation and deployment of innovative technologies to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
• Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that meet business results.

What You Have:

• The ability to objectively evaluate tools, platforms, and vendors - balancing factors such as cost, complexity, and long-term maintainability.
• The ability to clearly explain why a choice was made, not just what was chosen.
• Technical architects bridge the gap between business and technology.
• The ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, influence technology teams without formal authority, and create clear diagrams and documentation that align everyone around a shared solution.
• HR technology architects excel at translating HR strategy (talent, workforce planning, skills, AI-enabled insights) into technical solutions.
• Partner closely with HR, Legal, Finance, and IT to align architecture decisions with operating models, change management, and long-term transformation goals.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• An understanding of major HR platforms (e.g., Workday) and their native capabilities, data schemas, and limitations. This includes knowing when to configure vs. customize or when to "make" vs. "buy" a technology solution.
• A blend of HR and technology skills.
• Ability to foster relationships between different business functions, such as IT and Legal.

Skills Descriptors:

• 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.
  
  • Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

• Effective Communications: Understanding 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.
  
  • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.• Makes oral presentations and drafts reports needed for own work.• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

• 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.
  
  • Facilitates application design reviews and walkthroughs.• Creates and evaluates technical alternatives for complex applications.• Interprets application services such as API; integrates them with technical design.• Develops various, distinct, and multiple technical application designs.• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.• Explores and evaluates application design considerations for multiple technologies.

• 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.
  
  • Monitors data architecture design processes (e.g. interface to data), in accordance with existing processes and standards.• Recommends improvements to data architecture processes to ensure high quality of data architecture deliverables and consistency.• Coordinates data architecture project resources to effectively achieve business goals.• Guides junior data architects on considerations in the design of architecture building blocks.• Anticipates any obstacles and makes plans accordingly to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully reflected in data architecture outcomes.• Solves moderately complex issues in target data architecture design processes (e.g. data management process modeling, data entity matrix design).

• IT Architecture: Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) architecture; ability to design and improve organizational IT structures, supporting business operations.
  
  • Consults on planning, integrating and migrating IT architecture.• Provides IT architecture solutions based on business and technical requirements.• Creates cohesive IT architecture applications for information and platforms.• Oversees the compliance of IT architecture principles for an organization.• Evaluates IT architecture standards and policies to learn its principles and practices.• Directs the discussion of issues and considerations for adopting an open architecture.

• 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.
  
  • Monitors the compliance of platform architecture processes and standards and alignment with business objectives.• Guides less experienced platform architects on the techniques and approaches used in design processes.• Advises others on providing high quality deliverables of platform architectural roadmaps to fully satisfy client needs.• Recommends improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of platform modeling standard processes.• Teaches cross-team technology members about their roles and responsibilities associated with allocating resources to various platforms.• Resolves moderately complex issues that occur in platform modeling and roadmaps design processes.

• Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
  
  • Follows policies, practices, and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.• Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools, and techniques for requirements analysis.

• Target Architecture: Knowledge of target architecture; ability to develop the IT blueprint and roadmap while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
  
  • Designs each phase in the target architectural process and selects corresponding portfolio of services to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully met.• Monitors target architectural processes to ensure that they are in line with business strategies and objectives.• Advises others on implementing quality assurance deliverables and estimated outcomes for target architecture.• Guides less experienced architects in the processes involved in analyzing target architecture.• Coordinates architectural resources to ensure that the future state of IT meets client requirements.• Provides solutions to moderately complex architectural modeling problems and significant barriers encountered in the target architecture design process.

Additional Info:

• The primary location for this position is Dallas, TX.
• Domestic relocation is available.
• This role requires 5 days onsite.
• SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE.

What You Will Get:

• Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
• Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays.
• All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

About Caterpillar -
Caterpillar Inc. is 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 nearly one hundred years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation 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:
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 part-time employees
Posting Dates:
February 16, 2026 - February 26, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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