Career Area: EngineeringJob Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.When you join Caterpillar, you'rejoining 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'tjust 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.MineStaris Caterpillar's integrated mine management application that optimizes mining operations by collecting and using real‐time data to improve productivity, safety, and operational efficiency.ResponsibilitiesProvide architectural leadership to engineering teams by guidingsystem design, technology choices, and application modernization strategiesfor business domains within MineStar Application.Establish and governarchitecture standards, design patterns, coding guidelines, scalability models, and cloud best practicesacross teams.Review and validatehigh- level designs (HLD), low- level designs (LLD), API specifications, data models, deployment architectures, and other technical artifacts produced by development teams.Partner with product management, engineering, DevOps, and security to design solutions that align withbusiness goals, NFRs (scalability, reliability, performance), and cloud architectural principles .Conduct architectural evaluations and provide recommendations to improvesystem performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability .Lead architectural discussions, perform PoCs for new technologies, evaluate tools, libraries, and cloud components, and drive technology adoption.Partner with product, engineering, data, and platform teams toidentify opportunities to embed AIinto workflows, user experiences, automation pipelines, and backend processing.Provide architectural leadership for the adoption and integration ofAI services, LLMs, cognitive services, and custom ML models .Design and enforceAI- ready architecture patternssuch as event-driven pipelines, feature stores, vector databases, and model-serving microservices.Ensure architectural consistency across projects, enablingreusable frameworks, shared services, microservices patterns, and API-driven integration .Skills and Qualifications10+ yearsof experience in software engineering, with3+ yearsfocused on architecture, system design, or technical strategy roles.Deep expertise inJava/J2EE, Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud), and designing distributed, cloud-native applications.Strong understanding ofDocker/Kubernetesincluding compute, storage, eventing, security, networking, CI/CD, and monitoring.Mastery ofJPA, Hibernate, JDBC, SQL, REST/JSON APIs, messaging patterns, and high-performance application design.Advanced knowledge ofsoftware architecture patternssuch as microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS, and API-first design.Hands‐on experience building or architectingCloud-native solutions, serverless components, containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes), and scalable backend systems.Solid foundation inobject‐oriented design, MVC, design patterns, system decomposition, and UML modeling .Experience working inAgile environments, collaborating with cross‐functional teams, and transforming requirements into architectural blueprints.Proficiency withGitand modern DevOps workflows including branching strategies, CI/CD, and release automation.Strong communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to influence engineering teams at scale.Additional InformationThis position requires working onsite five days a week.Caterpillar of Australia is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship or looking for an ISE assessment.Posting Dates March 12, 2026 - March 26, 2026Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.#J-18808-Ljbffr