Career Area:Business Technologies, Digital and DataJob 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.What does it mean to live the Caterpillar Experience?It means you play a part in building a better world. You contribute to a winning culture—a spirit of accountability—that has driven change on every continent for more than 90 years. To work with us is a commitment to improve sustainability, invent for the digital age and innovate in order to bring solutions to millions of people. Sure, you work for Caterpillar. But more importantly, you work for the good of your career, your family, your community, and your world.Job Summary:The Distributed Database Services IT Manager will deliver highly available and mission critical Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 LUW, and MySQL databases to global distributed customers, while ensuring a high level of service availability with exceptional customer experience. The IT Manager will guide and lead a team made of globally distributed Database Administrators to deliver secure, innovative, and modern database solutions.What You Will Do:
Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to a globally distributed team of IT professionals
Provide enterprise distributed database services for Snowflake Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 LUW and MySQL database platforms
Ensure continuous collaboration with managed service support leadership to ensure a high level of engagement ensuring delivery of high-quality services meeting or exceeding service level expectations
Meet or exceed availability targets across each on premise managed database service
Manage vendor relationships to ensure understanding of future technology changes, manage licenses and contracts
Understand and ensure compliance with SOX controls, Export controls, IT Controls, divisional and corporate governance processes
Provide project leadership and guidance to team ensuring on time, budget and quality delivery of customer, IT security, and technology enablement projects
Collaborate across multiple business groups understanding and delivering on key projects supporting strategic initiatives
Employ a security focused and customer experience driven approach to delivering technology, self-service, and automation capabilities.
Facilitate program and project workshops, development sessions, meetings, gate reviews and other project meetings independently.
Manages and reports out on the status of multiple key projects to leadership
What You Have:
Experience as a team lead or a technical program manager with matrixed team members
Managing Database Platforms, Program/ Project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, strong analytical and organizational skills.
College or university degree with a technical focus.
Interpersonal skills are required to manage sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions
Ability to take initiative to own projects and drive long-term process improvements
Ability to create a vision, lead change, and ensure team understanding for execution of strategic initiatives
What You Will Get:Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).Additional Info :
MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO THIS LOCATION AND Work out of the office 3 times a week.
This position may require 10% travel.
Sponsorship is not available including OPT, H4-EAD. Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder.
About Caterpillar -Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.Posting Dates:June 28, 2024 - July 9, 2024Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.
