Lead Data Specialist

Career Area:
Business Technologies, 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.
In this role, you will balance contributions to the development of a data strategy and delivering on tactical projects to help drive its successful implementation. This role will sit between he disciplines of data engineering, architecture, and science; so candidates will benefit from some experience from each field. The day-to-day work of this role will also contribute to high-visibility projects that advance the discoverability, accessibility, trustworthiness, and utility of data solutions for decision-making.
What You Will Do:

• Developing data management capabilities to advance organizational data governance, analytics, and reporting, particularly in Snowflake.
• Partnering with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and communicate technical requirements based on the understanding of strategic priorities and catering solutions that are implementable and maintainable.
• Understanding software development and web technologies and having proficiency in SQL and other data programming languages.
• Discerning data accuracies in large sets of data of diverse formats.

What You Have:

• Value Realization: Knowledge of value realization methods; ability to plan, execute, monitor and manage business activities and resources to determine and achieve the actual value from a business initiative as estimated in an associated business case.
• Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
• Agile Development: Knowledge of agile methodologies and the agile development lifecycle; ability to utilize formal agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniques for the delivery of new and enhanced applications.
• Cloud Computing: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and services of cloud computing; ability to design, deploy and implement cloud computing solutions in various business environment.
• Database Design (Physical): Knowledge of database systems; ability to establish a data model for designing an organization's database that runs effectively and efficiently for better business outcome.
• ETL Process: Knowledge of the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process; ability to develop a database through the ETL process.
• Modeling: Data, Process, Events, Objects: Knowledge of data, process and events; ability to use tools and techniques for analyzing and documenting logical relationships among data, processes or events.
• Data Analytics Processing and Transformation: Skilled in modern programming languages like Python/Spark in the data transformation context; Experience in designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and spark applications.

Top Candidates Will Have :

• Snowflake and AWS experience
• Python experience

Employee benefit details:

• 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 a yearly STIP bonus.
• Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details
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Summary Pay Range:
$123,480.00 - $185,280.00
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:
Annual incentive bonus plan*
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
401k savings plan
Health savings account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Healthy Lifestyle Programs
Employee Assistance Programs
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
Tuition Reimbursement
Career Development
*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines .
Posting Dates:
December 9, 2024 - December 20, 2024
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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