Job Description

Career Area: Business Technologies, Digital and Data

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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.

Position Title: Senior Data Specialist

Job Location: Bangalore, KA-India

About Caterpillar:

At Caterpillar, you build what matters-whether it\'s the career you want, crucial work skills, strong relationships or new digital technologies. There are big jobs to be done worldwide-building critical infrastructure, bolstering local economies, meeting the demand for energy-and that work is powered by our people.

Every single Caterpillar employee, including our GIS team, moves our company forward. Piece by piece, part by part, person by person. Together we create sustainable, world-changing solutions that impact lives around the globe.

With 2022 sales and revenues of $59.4 billion, 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.Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments - Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation - and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

Job Purpose:

The Senior Data Specialist is a technical resource involved in data quality, data design, metadata management and data governance of Caterpillar\'s digital offerings.

Job Duties:

• Competent to perform all necessary data related task which could include data design, data quality, metadata management, data governance or data architecture.
• Work directly on complex problems and provide solutions aligned with overall objectives of Cat Digital.
• Understand and evaluate business requirements that impact the Caterpillar enterprise, dealership partners, and other internal and external customers.
• Liaises with data creators to support project planning, training, guidance on standards, and the efficient creation/maintenance of high-quality data
• Contributes 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.
• Creates, updates, and enhances metadata policies, processes and catalogs
• Drives alignment and coordination of data governance efforts
• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

Basic Requirements:

• A 4-year degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience
• Need 10-12 years of Experience with a relevant5 years or more of experience in data management (data design, data quality, metadata, governance, etc.)
• Shift Timings-01:00PM -10:00 PM IST

Top candidates will also 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
• Strong SAS programming skills with proficiency in using SAS-PC with data step, macro processing, and PROC SQL
• 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

Additional Information:

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)

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

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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