Data Specialist

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Nashville, TN

This role supports the Master Data Management & Data Governance team, focusing on global data management, data quality, and strategic data projects. It involves analyzing requirements, ensuring data accuracy, and documenting data specifications across the data lifecycle. Experience with SQL, Snowflake, or Salesforce is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyzing requirements based on the understanding of conformed models and catering solutions that are implementable and maintainable.
  2. Discerning data accuracies in large sets of data of diverse formats
  3. Researching, designing, and documenting data specifications at all points in the data life cycle.
  4. Understanding data structures and software used to manage data.

Skills

Required

  • Value Realization
  • Communicating Complex Concepts
  • Agile Development
  • Database Design
  • Information Management
  • Modeling: Data, Process, Events, Objects

Nice to have

  • Experience in banking, insurance, lending or leasing
  • Experience supporting data operations, reporting, or analytics for business stakeholders
  • Proficiency with data tools, queries, and datasets used to deliver accurate, timely insights
  • Ability to manage recurring deliverables while supporting ad‑hoc requests and shifting priorities
  • Demonstrated attention to data quality, governance, and documentation standards
  • Proven collaboration skills with cross‑functional partners to translate business needs into data solutions
  • Self‑directed, reliable, and capable of operating with minimal oversight in a fast‑paced environment
  • Experience with developing and publishing PowerBI reports, dashboards
  • SQL fundamentals, working knowledge of Snowflake or Salesforce, Azure DevOps