Associate Data Specialist

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Nashville, TN

Associate Data Specialist role supporting Master Data Management & Data Governance team at Cat Financial. Focuses on global data management, customer data pipelines, data quality, and strategic data projects. Involves analyzing requirements, discerning data accuracies, and researching/designing data specifications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Supports global data management, including Customer 360 data pipeline, resolution of misaligned data across data platforms, supports data quality across Cat Financial's global line units, and engages in strategic projects to move the data strategy forward, such as standardizing contact roles, customer hierarchies, and supporting new data domains as they are released to the business and corporate support teams.
  2. Analyzing requirements based on the understanding of conformed models and catering solutions that are implementable and maintainable.
  3. Discerning data accuracies in large sets of data of diverse formats
  4. Researching, designing, and documenting data specifications at all points in the data life cycle.
  5. Understanding data structures and software used to manage data.

Skills

Required

  • Value Realization
  • Communicating Complex Concepts
  • Agile Development
  • Database Design
  • Information Management

Nice to have

  • reporting or analytics for business stakeholders
  • data tools, queries, and datasets
  • manage recurring deliverables while supporting ad‑hoc requests and shifting priorities
  • attention to detail, quality, and documentation
  • Self‑directed, reliable, and a curious learner
  • PowerBI or other visualization tools (Tableau, Snowflake streamlit or react, web visuals)
  • customer data management systems - core databases like Oracle or SAP, or customer relationship management systems like Salesforce
  • SQL queries
  • Snowflake data platforms or Cortex Code
  • Salesforce
  • Oracle
  • ERP and CRM systems