Senior Manager Engineering - Foresight

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.
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.
Job Summary:
Are you looking for an impactful role to develop digital tools infused with traditional and generative AI to enable transformational outcomes for Caterpillar customers? We have a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and visionary Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Cat Foresight engineering team, as a part of the Cat Digital Application Engineering organization.
This position is perfect for a leader with a deep engineering expertise, polished executive presence, the ability to influence across all levels of the organization, and a passion for building high performance teams. You will shape technical strategy, mentor talent, and collaborate with senior leadership to deliver Cat Foresight's expanded capabilities to support our customers through Contract Management, Repair and Rebuild planning, and Condition Monitoring to increase uptime.
What You Will Do:

• Delivery Excellence: Oversee team software development activities, ensuring cyber safe, high quality, timely delivery of features leveraging traditional ML and analytic models, as well as Gen AI capabilities, that delight our users, and deliver business outcomes
• Team Empowerment: Foster a culture of ownership, innovation and continuous growth, actively using AI in day-to-day work; Attract, mentor, and retain leaders and individual team members; Lead geographically dispersed development teams
• Cross Functional Influence: Partner with Product, Analytics, Platform and Operations, to balance technical capabilities with business priorities
• Stakeholder Communication: Present progress, challenges and opportunities, to senior leadership and partners with clarity and confidence.
• Provides technical support, and direction to teams and team leaders. Acquires resources necessary to accomplish work on time.
• Oversees performance of individual team members and team as a whole. Identifies and addresses staff training and development needs.
• Coordinates walkthroughs and reviews; ensures conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications.
• Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. Monitors and troubleshoots performance and schedule issues.

What You Will Have:
Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Software Quality Assurance and Testing: Knowledge of software quality assurance and testing; ability to apply appropriate processes, tools, and techniques for assuring a high level of quality in computer software products and systems.
IT Service Management (ITSM): Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) service; ability to manage IT services and oversee service operations.
Considerations For Top Candidates:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science, or engineering, or related field Or equivalent working experience
• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with proven experience delivering and maintaining performant and complex enterprise scale applications, in languages including but not limited to Java, Typescript, Javascript, or Python
• 2+ years experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining cloud systems
• Experience in testing, production system monitoring, and observability

What You Will Get:
Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We've created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.
Additional Information:
Flexible hybrid work environment
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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 100 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.
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.
Benefits:
This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to Caterpillar's long-term incentive plan.
Summary Pay Range:
$169,320.00 - $253,920.00
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
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:
March 9, 2025 - March 21, 2025
Any 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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