Career Area:

Digital

Job Description:

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/Responsibilities may include but not limited to:

• 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 Qualifications

• A 4-year degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience
• 5 years or more of experience in data management (data design, data quality, metadata, governance, etc.)

Top candidates will also possess these Qualifications

• 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 or Alation
• 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

The preferred location is Peoria, IL, Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX, but remote work within the United States is available for the right candidate.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary for this role ranges from $104,112 to $156,168. Actual salary will be based on experience. The total rewards package, beyond base salary will include:

• 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)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident,  Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines .

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