Autonomy & Automation; A&A Site Ecosystem Strategist

Career Area:

Engineering

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The A&A Site Ecosystem Strategist is accountable for end-to-end architectural integrity across industries. This role owns the cross-industry site and systems architecture, governs commonality across Caterpillar industries, and ensures that industry specific solutions align to a unified Cat Technology ecosystem. The role leads cross-industry design reviews, establishes architectural guardrails, and ensures strategic intent is translated into consistent execution through requirements management, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and enterprise architecture practices.

• Cross Industry Architecture & Commonality Governance
  • Own and govern the cross industry architectural integrity of the Cat Technology ecosystem.
  • Define and enforce architectural guardrails that ensure commonality across industries while allowing intentional, value based differentiation where required.
  • Serve as the architectural authority for cross industry tradeoffs, ensuring that local optimization does not erode enterprise level coherence.
  • Ensure that solutions developed within one industry remain compatible, reusable, and scalable across other Caterpillar industries.
• Enterprise & Site Architecture Ownership
  • Define, own, and evolve the overall site level and system of systems architecture for Cat Technology across all Caterpillar industries.
  • Establish and maintain reference architectures that guide industry, platform, and product teams.
  • Ensure alignment between industry specific implementations and industry independent system engineering support.
• Strategy Execution Across Industries
  • Ensure Caterpillar technology strategy is executed consistently across Surface Hauling, Underground, Construction, Industrial & Waste, Road Construction, and emerging industries.
  • Translate enterprise strategy into cross industry architectural patterns, shared requirements, and technology roadmaps.
  • Identify gaps, overlaps, and unintended divergence across industries and drive architectural convergence where appropriate.
• Design Leadership & Governance
  • Lead and facilitate cross industry and enterprise design reviews for site level, system level, and platform architectures.
  • Provide architectural approval and guidance for initiatives that span multiple industries, platforms, or product families.
  • Govern architectural decisions made during solution definition remain intact through delivery and execution.
• Systems Engineering & Commonality
  • Govern common domains (e.g., site management, operator management, equipment management, safety, data/APIs, materials management) to ensure they are architected for reuse, scalability, and long term evolution.
  • Drive consistent application of requirements management, MBSE, and enterprise architecture practices across Cat Technology.
  • Partner with industry and product teams to balance delivery needs with ecosystem sustainability.
• Collaboration & Influence
  • Act as a trusted architectural steward across Cat Technology, autonomy, robotics, and industry organizations.
  • Influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries without direct authority.

• Strategic Thinking
  • Applies enterprise level thinking to govern commonality and prevent fragmentation across industries.
  • Balances industry specific execution needs with ecosystem wide architectural integrity.
• Technical Excellence
  • Defines and governs complex, multi-industry system architectures.
  • Holds accountability for architectural coherence across platforms, products, and industries.
• Influencing Through Expertise
  • Communicates complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non technical audiences.
  • Influences decisions across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
  • Coaches others in applying trusted advisor principles at the enterprise level.
• Effective Communications
  • Adapts messaging for executives, architects, engineers, and industry partners.
  • Provides clear architectural narratives that connect strategy to execution.
  • Demonstrates empathy and assertiveness when aligning competing priorities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant engineering related field.
• Proven experience in Systems Engineering for Site Technology Solutions
• Experience partnering with stakeholders to understand business models and objectives to create effective solutions
• Proven experience leading projects with empathy and conflict management
• Model-based Systems Engineering Experience preferred
• Prior development experience with…