Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. **
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Role Overview
The Senior Engineering Manager will lead Non-Functional Quality Engineering (NFR) across digital platforms, with primary accountability for Performance Engineering, scalability, reliability, and resilience.
This is a horizontal enterprise leadership role responsible for ensuring that performance and reliability are designed into systems, validated early, and sustained in production at scale.
The role partners closely with Architecture, Engineering, SRE, and QE delivery leaders to establish a performance-first engineering culture, drive NFR governance, and enable data-driven release and architecture decisions.
Over time, this role is expected to expand into broader Quality Engineering leadership, contributing to enterprise-wide quality strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Non-Functional Quality Leadership
Own and define the Non-Functional Quality (NFR) strategy and operating model
Establish governance for performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience
Define NFR intake, validation, and release readiness criteria
Drive performance-first engineering culture
Performance Engineering Strategy & Accountability
Own enterprise-wide performance engineering capability
Define lifecycle: workload modeling, test strategy, certification, production validation
Establish shift-left performance in CI/CD
Define performance budgets and certification models
Drive production-informed workload models
Architecture Influence & QE Ecosystem
Influence system design using performance-first principles
Define QE architecture patterns and reusable frameworks
Drive standardization across automation, virtualization, and test data
Own environment and observability alignment
Reliability Engineering & Production Alignment
Align with SRE on SLOs/SLIs
Drive resilience engineering practices
Link production telemetry to performance validation
Governance & Executive Visibility
Define performance and NFR metrics
Present risks in executive forums
Translate technical risks into business impact
Innovation & Future-ready QE
Drive AI-assisted testing and analytics
Enable anomaly detection and automated RCA
Organization & Capability Building
Build and scale Non-Functional QE capability
Mentor engineers and architects
Establish Non-Functional Excellence Guild
Required Skills & Experience
Experience
20+ years in QE / Performance Engineering
8+ years leading large, distributed teams
Leadership
Proven enterprise performance leadership
Cross-functional influence (Architecture, SRE, Product)
Strong executive communication skills
Technical
Distributed systems, microservices, APIs
Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
Observability and APM ecosystems
Preferred
Experience with large-scale digital platforms
Exposure to AI/ML-driven testing
Success Measures
Performance risks identified before production
Reduction in production performance issues
Predictable performance certification
Strong executive confidence in releases
Scalable NFR capability established
Posting Dates:
June 4, 2026 - July 1, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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