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# Data Specialist

- **Company:** Caterpillar
- **Location:** Chicago, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,555.0 - $169,060.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Databases, Computer Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Mining, Relational Databases, Document-Oriented Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, Identity and Access Management, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Meta-Data Management, NoSQL, Windows PowerShell, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Transaction Data, Private Cloud Environment, Data Logging, Scripting, Postman, Apigee, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/senior-data-specialist-509977059

## About the Role

REQS: This position requires a master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or a related field and 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer or related occupation. In the alternative will accept bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or a related field and 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer or related occupation.

Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with: (1) Computer Architecture and systems Software Infrastructure; (2) AWS tools such as CloudWatch logging, Lambda service, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Storage Service (S3), DynamoDB / NoSQL, or Relational Database Service (RDS); (3) API and scripting tools such as PowerShell, SQL, JSON, Python, Apigee, or Postman; (4) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), CloudFormation, Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Elastic BlockStore (EBS), or Elastic Container Service (ECS); and (5) Data cleansing, conforming or correlation of transactional data sets.

## Description

Data design, data quality, metadata management, data governance or data architecture (25% of time spent on these job duties). Develop data object pipeline specifications including detailed field level mapping, business rules, data quality rules, etc (25% of time spent on these job duties). Document data models for domains to be deployed including a logical data model, candidate source lists, and canonical formats (20% of time spent on these job duties). Design robust, scalable database and data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) solutions (15% of time spent on these job duties). Work directly on complex problems and provide solutions aligned with overall objectives of Cat Digital (15% of time spent on these job duties). Telecommuting: 1 day/week.


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