About the role

Principal Architect at Caterpillar shaping the architectural strategy for product engineering platforms. Leading modernization efforts and enabling seamless integrations across manufacturing and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

Define the enterprise architecture strategy for product engineering platforms including PLM, CAD, simulation, and engineering data ecosystems.
Establish architecture patterns supporting digital engineering and model-based development.
Lead modernization or legacy engineering technology environments
Architect end-to-end digital thread connecting product design, manufacturing, and lifecycle management
Enable seamless integration between PLM, ERP, MES, quality systems, and digital manufacturing platforms
Define standards supporting configuration management, engineering change management, and traceability
Architect patterns enabling engineering-to-manufacturing data flow across global manufacturing operations
Enable connectivity between engineering platforms and MES, industrial IoT, factory automation systems, and quality and inspection platforms
Enable platforms supporting engineering simulation environments, AI-assisted design and optimization, generative engineering workflows and digital twin ecosystems
Define event driven integration, API-first engineering ecosystems, and engineering data interoperability to architect scalable solutions for global engineering collaboration and product development.
Partner across the enterprise with key stakeholders and translate the product engineering strategy into technology roadmaps and architectural blueprints.
Provide architecture governance and guidance across engineering initiatives.

Experience in enterprise architecture, engineering platforms, or digital engineering environments.
Deep experience with product engineering ecosystems in industrial manufacturing
Demonstrated experience architecting PLM and engineering platform integrations
Strong understanding of engineering-to-manufacturing digital workflows
Expertise in integration architecture and enterprise platform design
Qualification in Architectural Framework e.g. TOGAF (preferred)
Experience with leading PLM platforms including Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE (preferred).
Experience integrating PLM with ERPs, MES, digital manufacturing systems (preferred)
Understanding of model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
Enabled digital twins and simulation environments (preferred)
Exposure to AI-enabled engineering platforms or generative design (preferred)
Experience supporting large-scale manufacturing organizations (preferred)
Direct Leadership Experience would be beneficial (preferred)