Manager Engineering - System Engineering
Caterpillar
Full time- 10+ years
- Not Disclosed
- Chennai, India
- Post Date: Apr 10, 2026
- End Date: Jun 10, 2026
- 10+ years
- Not Disclosed
- Chennai, India
- Post Date:Apr 10, 2026
- End Date: Jun 10, 2026
Skills:
- DevOps
- Service Management
Job Description:
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a multi?disciplinary system engineering team setting clear expectations and creating an environment that enables technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Guide the team in owning system?level design, integration across complex software products operating in on?premises and cloud environments, ensuring architectural integrity and end?to?end system coherence.
- Ensure the team establishes and consistently applies system engineering practices, including requirements decomposition, interface definition, cross?component design alignment, and traceability across product lines and platform initiatives.
- Enable the team to define and validate system architectures that meet functional, non?functional, operational, scalability, reliability, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Foster strong collaboration between system engineers, product, platform, and delivery teams, ensuring product intent is translated into executable system designs
- Hold the team accountable for proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating system?level technical risks, including dependency management, integration readiness, and legacy platform constraints.
- Ensure effective participation of the team in architecture and design reviews
- Ensure the team operates effectively within SAFe / Agile environments, contributing system?engineering inputs, architectural runway, and integration considerations into program increment and sprint planning activities.
Qualification & Expeirence
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership, including 7+ years in system engineering roles, within large, global organizations.
- Proven system engineering leadership across system architecture, integration, and technical governance.
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