It Analyst (Applications) (Flexible Work Location)

Career Area

Information Technology

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Job Purpose

To evaluate and implement proposed program changes or additions to systems and programs. Assist more experienced system development and support personnel in developing solutions to customer related requests and/or system problems. Integrate purchased solutions with Caterpillar systems. Develop and write related program logic or integrate solutions into the systems or infrastructure after testing functions of developed programs or purchased software.

JOB RELATED STATISTICS: Indeterminate

Job Duties

This position reports to an IT Supervisor, Senior IT Supervisor or IT Manager as do other staff jobs in application and programming sections. Customers may include internal Caterpillar organizations (service centers and/or worldwide business units), suppliers, other Information Technology teams or business partners, and users of Caterpillar product and/or dealers.

This role understands and executes standard work to ensure the scope of services achieve and maintain appropriate level of risk and compliance to internal policies and procedures, including those relating to sustainability, cybersecurity, SOX, and IT General Controls.

Other Job Duties Include, But Not Limited To

Responsibilities of the incumbents are along functional lines with individual IT Applications Analysts assigned new program development and/or maintenance of existing mainframe, personal computer, server, WEB and/or distributed computing systems.

• Works independently on complex programs/subroutines.
• Under the direction of more experienced staff, assists in the development of major system modules and programs.
• Employee may also be responsible for performing other job duties occasionally as assigned.
• Evaluates recommended software and/or program changes and their potential impact on the environment and execution results.
• Designs, codes, tests, and debugs programs of varying degrees of complexity.
• Fully qualified to perform most programming assignments without close supervision.
• May perform integration tasks for in-house developed systems and/or purchased software solutions.
• Typically serves as a team member on one or more 6 Sigma projects.
• Fully knowledgeable of programming languages, program design and specification development, programming logic, logic diagrams, testing, debugging and documentation.
• Works on application/technical problem identification and resolution, including off-shift and weekend support functions.
• Improves development and support processes.

Background/Experience

• Requires a relevant BS degree in Computer Science or certification and/or equivalent experience.
• The incumbent should be knowledgeable of the current technology in programming languages; platform requirements; computing and software environments; and current development processes and tools.
• In addition, the incumbent should have a good knowledge of Caterpillar policies and procedures, and a general understanding of Caterpillar’s organization."
• Python Experience is a plus at college level or project level.

Relocation is available for this position.

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