Senior IT Analyst Applications (Supply Chain Applications)

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.

Your Impact Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team that 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.

What does it mean to live the Caterpillar Experience?

It means you play a part in building a better world. You contribute to a winning culture—a spirit of accountability—that has driven change on every continent for more than 90 years. To work with us is a commitment to improving sustainability, inventing for the digital age, and innovating to bring solutions to millions of people. Sure, you work for Caterpillar. But more importantly, you work for the good of your career, family, community, and world.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Analyst applications(Supply Chain Applications) to join our Order Fulfillment & Procurement - CAT IT Division.The preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore – Caterpillar PSN.This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule.Shift Timing: 01:00-10:00PM IST

Provide functional and technical solutions and collaborate with a Global team. Engage with stakeholders to perform business analysis, implement IT solutions, manage code changes, and ensure alignment with technical and business objectives. This role requires collaboration with architects, developers, data scientists, and project managers to maintain efficient IT operations and enhance application performance, focusing on supply chain solutions.

What You Will Do:

• Work with a team of 8 members within the Global Team/Vendor organization, developing functional expertise and ownership for Supply Chain functional areas.
• Actively collaborate with business stakeholders to develop and implement IT solutions, ensuring full integration with existing systems.
• Review and approve code changes to ensure compliance with technical and organizational standards.
• Provide development teams technical oversight, feedback, and guidance, ensuring robust and functional solutions.
• Work closely with project managers to define timelines, manage costs, and establish project goals.
• Partner with architects to ensure IT solutions align with business and technical objectives.
• In collaboration with developers and data scientists, ensure timely and effective delivery of IT controls for the Supply Chain team.

What You Have: Effective Communications:

• Ability to collaborate with an extended professional technology network to help effectively identify, plan, and accomplish technology objectives.
• Experience providing direction and mentoring developers and analysts across various systems/applications, technologies, services, and solutions, preferably in the Supply Chain technology domain.

Application Design, Architecture:

• Knowledge of application design activities and deliverables; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into technical application designs.

Technical Troubleshooting:

• Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools, and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, or application.

Problem Solving:

• Experiencing evaluating, learning, and advising on emerging technologies and their impact on IT and the business.
• Finds and enjoys using technology to solve business problems and deliver enterprise value!

Considerations For Top Candidates:

• 7+ of relevant professional experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or related certifications
• Experienced working with technologies that include AWS – Snowflake, Hive, PySpark and Big Data
• Additional technical experience with Neo4j graph database, integration middleware technologies, and application architecture with strong Supply Chain knowledge.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, best practices, and standards to ensure the secure design and implementation of technical solutions.

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 an hourly wage. Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day-one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and holidays (prorated based on the hire date).

Additional Info:

• The primary locations for this position are East Peoria, IL
• This position may require 10% travel.
• Sponsorship is not available.

Skill DescriptorsCore Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.

• Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.

• Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.

• Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.

• Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.

• Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.

• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.

• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.

• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.

• Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.

• Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.

• Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.

• Troubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.

• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.

Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).

Level Working Knowledge:

• Tracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.

• Researches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.

• Drafts application software usage for the department's needs.

• Provides instant support for end users of application software.

• Implements a specific application software under the supervision of management.

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.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.

• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.

• Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.

• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.

• Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.

• Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

System and Technology Integration: Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Designs and develops applications or technology interfaces and bridges.

• Documents existing best practices for system or technology integration processes.

• Identifies and quantifies risks of proposed alternatives to a system or technology integration initiative.

• Delivers training on major issues, interfaces, considerations and potential pitfalls and risks.

• Discusses with line areas on data, technology and application integration issues.

• Advises others in how to integrate projects across multiple technologies.

System Testing: Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Verifies the proper flow of transactions across all input, output and storage channels or devices.

• Evaluates interoperability of new systems with existing systems during the beta testing phase.

• Supervises the testing of complex, multi-platform and distributed applications.

• Designs processes to ensure that the system meets and maintains requirements and expectations.

• Coaches end users on the development of test data and test scenarios for system validation.

• Manages the execution of test plans, including resources, strategies, schedules, processes and tools.

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Discovers, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software or application problems.

• Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities.

• Handles calls related to product features, applications, and compatibility standards.

• Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.

• Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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