Lead Digital Architect
Caterpillar1 day ago
Chennai, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect large-scale applications and produce high- and low-level technical designs.
- Develop distributed, highly available, reliable web applications using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and microservices.
- Modernize legacy application components with current frameworks, architectures, and design patterns.
- Manage source code and CI/CD pipelines while maintaining software quality, coding standards, and development practices.
- Implement application security, shift-left practices, vulnerability remediation, and risk-reduction measures.
- Resolve complex application and infrastructure problems, including off-shift and weekend support issues.
- Drive application development focused on valuable business features and improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with end users, internal customers, and technical teams on requirements, debugging, testing, integration, and acceptance.
- Guide architects and team members and identify opportunities for technical and process improvement.
Requirements
- More than 14 years of application development experience with Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux, Spring Modulith, OpenAPI, and Liquibase or Flyway.
- Experience providing technical solutions and application architecture, including business requirements analysis and high- and low-level design.
- Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React or Angular for web-based applications.
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, SQS, and Pub/Sub models.
- Experience using AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot and applying AI/GenAI for automation.
- Experience with containerized microservices architectures using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git-based source-code management and repositories such as GitLab, GitHub, or Azure Repos.
- Experience with unit testing using JUnit, Mockito, and Bruno.
- Experience deploying and securing applications on AWS using CloudFormation, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, and API Gateway.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, and JFrog Artifactory, plus vulnerability remediation and automated security measures.
- Understanding of web application security threats, security best practices, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, networking concepts, and Java/J2EE hosting.
- Familiarity with at least two databases, including DB2 and PostgreSQL.
- Preferred experience with Apigee, Azure or AWS cloud computing, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, CodeQL, Rapid7, Artifactory/Xray, Fortify, corporate security compliance, and cloud security policies.
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework is preferred.
Benefits
- Preferred work locations are Caterpillar PSN in Bangalore or WTC in Chennai.
- Requires working five days per week.
- Shift timing is 1:00–10:00 PM IST.
Tech Stack
AngularApache KafkaAWSAzureCSSDockerFlywayGitGitHub ActionsGrafanaGraphQLgRPCHTMLIBM DB2JavaJavaScriptJUnitKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusReactSonarQubeSpring Boot
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About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.