Senior Digital Project Manager

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.
The successful candidate will join the Caterpillar IT GCIO DT&D organization as a key contributor responsible for facilitating the operations of an Agile framework with 1-3 teams while embracing the principles of the framework and the Agile Mindset in support of the new modern, cloud-based Global Warranty Management solution. You will help teams reach their highest performance level in the execution of workstreams. This role will provide expertise, leadership, mentorship, coaching, consulting, training, and/or facilitation in support of Business Agility across the enterprise.
Be part of a transformational program that streamlines dealer and business partner processes, accelerates and increases transparency in warranty experiences, and delivers actionable insights that drive product quality improvements and long-term profitability.
This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of one of Caterpillar's most exciting transformational initiatives over the coming years. You will play a pivotal role in supporting strategic change as we transition legacy systems to modern, cloud-based solutions via Agile software development.
What You Will Do:
• Planning, scheduling, and facilitating Agile events. Fostering an environment of self-organization, high visibility, ownership, and continuous improvement with the team
• Coaching the Agile team into an understanding of the values, artifacts, and objectives of the operating framework with a lean mindset
• Working with the product owner/service request manager and stakeholders to ensure value is always being generated by the team's work.
• Becoming a champion of removing blockers and impediments to the teams' progress, while facilitating the reduction of decision latency with clear and constant communication and attention. Helping the team to capture and aggregate data is useful to the team's development, as well as providing management information that will inform strategic decisions.
What You Have:
Business Analysis: Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs; ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
Level Expert:
• Champions the use and development of new techniques of business analysis for meeting the ever-changing business requirements.
• Creates a metric system for evaluating the performance of specific business analysis tools and techniques in the organization.
• Establishes internal best practices, guidelines, and procedures for performing business analysis of projects.
• Monitors industry and marketplace trends and directions of business analysis techniques and tools.
• Promotes leveraging business analysis techniques organization-wide for better business results and performance.
• Trains others on ways to achieve optimum business analysis results.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Expert:
• Works to create a climate that values and rewards good oral and written communication.
• Communicates effectively with diverse audiences, using appropriate media and language.
• Monitors developments in communications tools for potential use by organization.
• Writes reports, articles, or books for distribution to the business or professional community.
• Ensures important messages are clearly understood.
• Coaches others on methods of improving their own communications.
Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Describes methods for estimating costs for request fulfillment.
• Defines responses for non-standard or unsupported change requests.
• Contributes to the design and development of request process flow and templates.
• Clarifies description, components affected, need, cost estimate, risk, resources, status.
• Manages all aspects of the change request process.
• Research new tools and techniques for monitoring product efficacy.
Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced fee-based software products.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Demonstrates experience with, and capacity to lead, software product development projects.
• Supervises the full spectrum of delivery activities on multiple components or products.
• Makes use of industry experience and benchmarks for methodology effectiveness.
• Contrasts benefits, drawbacks and appropriateness of different engineering methodologies.
• Contributes to the development of best practices for all major activities and tasks.
• Explains the relative criticality, risk and potential reward of each and all major tasks.
Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems with installed software products.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Documents resolution progress and provide feedback to customers.
• Describes issues and consideration for resolving problems involving other products or vendors.
• Works with tracking and resolving common types of problems for a product or product group.
• Describes actions, tools, and procedures for problem reporting, solving, and resolution.
• Cites examples of unusual problems; follows proper notifications and escalation procedures.
Software Product Business Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; ability to manage install base, current uses, future plans, and product vision.
Level Expert:
• Drives functional enhancements and anticipates new opportunities and needs.
• Ensures feedback from current and potential users, analysts and users of competitive products.
• Plays a key role in analyzing and dealing with unusual and complex customization needs.
• Defines and communicates product strategy, vision and functional roadmap.
• Leads functional product planning effort; summarizes and communicates planned functionality.
• Is recognized as an expert on product functions, features and implementation issues.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users.
Additional Info:

• The ideal location for this role is Peoria-IL,

About Caterpillar -
For more than a century, Caterpillar has helped build a better, more sustainable world. With 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is shaping the future as the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial, the company's primary business segments: Power & Energy, Construction Industries and Resource Industries are solving customers' toughest challenges through commercial excellence and advanced technology, driven by a highly skilled, dedicated global team. Learn more at www.caterpillar.com.
Summary Pay Range:
$112,710.00 - $169,060.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
June 26, 2026 - July 1, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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