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Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a greater than 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

As a Data Engineer you will be responsible for leading data design, data quality, metadata management and data governance of Caterpillar’s COGMD ’s division.

Job Duties/Responsibilities may Include, but are not limited to:

• Act as a team lead by providing technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.

• Work directly on complex problems and provide solutions aligned with overall objectives of Cat COGMD.

• Understand and evaluate business requirements that impact the Caterpillar enterprise, dealership partners, and other internal and external customers.

• Liaise with data creators to support project planning, training, guidance on standards, and the efficient creation/maintenance of high-quality data

• Contribute to policies, procedures, and standards as well as technical requirements

• Create the data management strategy and define continuous improvement goals of data quality, governance and processes.

• Lead communication across various lines of businesses and technology partners to constantly monitor, collect, review, and roadmap business data requirements, and related technology solutions.

• Ensure compliance with the latest data standards supported by the company, and brand, legal, information security (data security and privacy compliance).

• Maintain knowledge of functional technology of the data management systems as they change with upgrades and new releases.

• Maintain existing data quality scorecard measurements, executing of scorecards, resolving exceptions with data owners and source systems

• Accountable to design robust, scalable database and data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) solutions

• Document data models for domains to be deployed including a logical data model, candidate source lists, and canonical formats.

• Develop data ingestion store specifications identifying source systems and the tables and fields to ingest.

• Develop data object pipeline specifications including detailed field level mapping, business rules, data quality rules, etc.

• Create, update, and enhance metadata policies, processes and catalogs

• Drive alignment and coordination of data governance efforts

• Work closely with BI developers to create/update and improve critical reports/dashboards
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience

• 7+ years’ experience in data management (data design, data quality, metadata, governance, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience leading data management or software engineering projects.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Understanding of information management concepts such as controlled vocabularies, authority control, data modeling, and schema design.

• Strong knowledge of end-to-end data lifecycle across traditional data warehouses, relational databases, operational data stores, business intelligence reporting, and big data analytics.

• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, data modeling, and data architecture concepts

• Experience in Metadata Management role within a large corporation preferably high tech or technology manufacturing

• Experience creating conceptual and logical data models

• Experience with metadata managers like Erwin’s Mapping Manager

• Experience with data profiling tools such as Alteryx

• Experience with data cataloging tools such as Collibra

• Extract, Transformation, Load (ETL) development skills

• Knowledge of data technology products and components for Big Data and Cloud (AWS, Data Lakes, and similar).

• XML and JSON file format knowledge

• Software development experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, Javascript, C++, Scala, etc

• Experience with Object Oriented Concepts/Development/Modeling

• Ability to work collaboratively in a complex, rapidly changing, and culturally diverse environment.

• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical ideas, regardless of the technical capacity of the audience

• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment where digital is still evolving as a core offering.

Travel:

• Up to 10%

Additional Information:

• Relocation assistance IS available for this position.

• This position can be located in either Houston, TX or Fort Worth, TX and offers a flexible work environment

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 day-one benefits, including but not limited to:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus program

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

• Company-matched 401(k) plan

• Stock option opportunity over time

• Health savings account (HSA)

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Life Insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy Lifestyle Programs

• Employee Assistance Programs

• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

• Strong community involvement

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.

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to 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 #LI-Hybrid

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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