Job Description

Career Area: Engineering
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Position Summary
Seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Lead for the UI transformation initiative within Autonomy and Automation team of Cat Technology. This role is pivotal in modernizing our user interface, enhancing user experience, and integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Agentic AI. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Angular front-end development, a strong leadership background, and a passion for innovation in autonomous systems and automation.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of UI developers and engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.
• Drive the end-to-end execution of the UI transformation initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business goals.
• Implement scalable, responsive, and intuitive UI solutions using Angular and related technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including backend engineers, UX designers, product managers.
• Integrate Agentic AI capabilities into the UI to enhance automation and user interaction.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and ensure high standards of code quality and performance.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and risks effectively.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and solutions to stakeholders and leadership.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Overall 12+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on front-end technologies, 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in an agile environment.
• Proven expertise in Angular (v10+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, NgRx, Web components and modern UI frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Agentic AI tools and their integration into user interfaces.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles, responsive design, and accessibility standards.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS/Azure Certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
• Certifications in AI technologies

Skill Descriptors
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.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.
• Separates fundamental concepts from supporting details in explaining a product or service.
• Explains products and services with little or no use of technical jargon or advanced vocabulary.
• Emphasizes the most important facts or features of a product or service.
• Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
• Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
• Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
• Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
• Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
• Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.
• Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence.
• Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.

Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.

Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Acquires expertise through training and practical experience in the relevant field.
• Analyzes the needs, desires, and motivations of the other party to effectively understand a given scenario.
• Identifies who the decision makers are and how they receive information.
• Provides evidentiary support while giving opinions or recommendations to influence decision-making.
• Conducts tasks in such a way as to build a strong reputation and credibility as an expert in the field.

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.
• Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
• Explains design considerations for commercial database systems, operating systems and web.
• Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.
• Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
• Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI); ability to develop, implement and/or apply artificial intelligence products and services in specific industry domain to achieve business goals.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Performs basic tasks within a specific artificial intelligence area, such as self-driving cars, medical diagnosis, playing games, financial fraud detection, etc.
• Assists in business requirements analysis in the AI solution design or deployment process.
• Maintains and/or updates AI systems and equipment on a regular basis.
• Deploys, develops or operates specific AI products, equipment, systems and/or platforms to achieve certain business goals.
• Tests and troubleshoots the functionality of AI applications and systems within a specific area.

Relocation is available for this position.
Posting Dates: October 23, 2025 - October 30, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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