Senior Digital Architect – (GCC Lead Architect)

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Career Area: Technology, 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. Your Impact 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. Job Summary We are seeking a skilled Senior Digital Architect – (GCC Lead Architect) to join our App Services for DT&D GCIO-CAT IT Division. This incumbent would be responsible for indirect tax advisory for business queries, projects and technical research to support India indirect tax planning/advisory initiatives. The position requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams to ensure accurate tax positions. The preference for this role is to be based out of Chennai WTC centre or Bangalore PSN office What you will do • Experience in architecting large scale applications. Responsible for the high- and low-level design. • Experience in design and development of distributed high-availability and reliable web applications built using Java/J2EE technologies. • Experience with Microservices utilizing Spring Boot/Spring MVC in a multi-threaded, distributed environment. • Cross collaboration with different teams to enhance applications from legacy components to latest updated frameworks/architectures and design patterns. • Manage applications source code with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. • Adhere to security directives and enable security concepts in application lifecycle – implement shift-left concepts, vulnerability remediation processes and minimize overall risk for the enterprise solutions. • Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision. • Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls. • Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components used by one or more applications or systems. • Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features. • Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and coding guidelines. • Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team. • Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and closure. • Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely and quality output. What you will have • More than 14 years of application development experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux, Spring Modulith, OpenAPI, Liquibase/Flyway. • Experience in providing technical solutions and architecture. Understand business requirements and provide high- and low-level designs. • Experience with design, analysis, programming, integration, debugging, testing, and implementation activities to deliver software solutions to business. • Experience in developing web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React/Angular frameworks. • Experience in identifying technical problems and recommending options to address them. • Experience with architecture and design of large-scale systems with a focus on performance, scalability, high-availability, reliability, and fault tolerance. • Experience of developing applications with event driven architecture using Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub models • Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing. Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation. • Experience with developing applications using Microservices with containerized based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes) and design patterns. • Ability to quickly learn modern technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective. • A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools. • Experience with GitLab, GitHub or Azure Repos. • Experience in application unit testing using Junit, Mockito, Bruno etc. • Experience in optimizing and improvising the application performance using cache mechanisms and other possible solutions. • Experience with security concepts implementation in application development and deployment on Cloud platforms such as AWS using AWS Cloudformation, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Grafana/Prometheus/Cloudwatch, API Gateway. • Experience with vulnerability remediation and ability to automate security measures in application development. • Experience with DevOps/security tools – Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory etc. • An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices. • Understanding of Rest, GraphQL, gRPC. • Familiarity with two or more Databases – DB2, PostgreSQL etc. • Basic understanding of networking concepts as it pertains to Java/J2EE hosting (Load balancing, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.). Desired Skills: • Experience with APIGee is a huge plus. • Experience usin