Manager Information Technology

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

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IT Manager – Machines Order Management

Job Description

We are seeking an IT Manager – Machines Order Management to join our Technology, Digital and Data organization.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore – Caterpillar PSN / Chennai - WTC

This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule.

Shift Timing: 01:00-10:00PM IST

The IT Manager will provide people, technology, solution, delivery, and operational leadership for technology capabilities supporting Machines Order Management. The successful candidate will lead a team of approximately 4–5 Solution Analysts responsible for supporting, enhancing, and modernizing business-critical Order Management solutions.

This role will establish clear priorities and accountability across the team, develop functional and technical capabilities, partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand evolving needs, and ensure effective delivery and ongoing health of Order Management solutions.

The IT Manager will work closely with business stakeholders, Solution Analysts, Product Owners, Solution Architects, engineering teams, data and integration teams, application support teams, and strategic technology partners. The role requires the ability to understand business processes and technology dependencies across an integrated enterprise landscape while providing leadership from strategy and solution definition through delivery, deployment, and operational support.

The successful candidate will combine strong people leadership, business acumen, technical understanding, delivery discipline, stakeholder management, and a digital and AI mindset to build a high-performing team and deliver measurable business value.

What You Will Do

People and Capability Leadership

• •Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 4–5 Solution Analysts supporting Machines Order Management capabilities.
• •Establish clear roles, responsibilities, application ownership, business capability ownership, goals, and performance expectations across the team.
• •Develop team capabilities in business-process knowledge, functional analysis, application expertise, solution analysis, data, integration, AI, automation, and emerging technologies.
• •Provide regular coaching, feedback, mentoring, and career-development opportunities.
• •Build functional and technical depth within the team and increase the team's ability to independently own and support Order Management solutions.
• •Promote cross-training, succession planning, knowledge sharing, and documentation to reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
• •Assess team capacity, skills, and capability requirements and proactively address gaps affecting delivery or operational support.
• •Foster an environment of accountability, collaboration, innovation, inclusion, continuous learning, and proactive problem solving.
• •Develop future technology leaders by providing meaningful ownership and opportunities for increased responsibility.

Machines Order Management Technology Leadership

• •Provide technology leadership for assigned capabilities across the Machines Order Management landscape.
• •Develop a strong understanding of end-to-end Order Management processes, business priorities, user needs, technology dependencies, operational challenges, and desired outcomes.
• •Provide leadership across capabilities such as product configuration, order intake, pricing, scheduling, fulfillment, shipment, invoicing, dealer collaboration, and order visibility.
• •Ensure technology priorities align with business objectives, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, and operational needs.
• •Establish clear ownership and governance across applications and business capabilities.
• •Ensure business needs are evaluated from an end-to-end process and technology perspective rather than within individual applications.
• •Partner with architecture and engineering teams to drive scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and supportable solutions.
• •Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize the Order Management technology landscape.
• •Balance delivery of new capabilities with operational stability, modernization, technical debt, cybersecurity, controls, and application health.

Business Partnership and Technology Strategy

• •Build trusted relationships with Order Management business leaders, process owners, product leaders, and technology stakeholders.
• •Understand business strategy, challenges, and priorities and translate them into appropriate technology capabilities and investments.
• •Provide technology guidance and thought leadership regarding solution opportunities, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• •Facilitate roadmap, prioritization, process-design, and solution discussions with business and technology stakeholders.
• •Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to align technology capacity and investment with the highest-value business priorities.
• •Develop and communicate technology roadmaps for assigned Order Management capabilities.
• •Ensure technology investments have clear expected business outcomes and appropriate measures of success.
• •Communicate technology strategy, delivery progress, application health, risks, dependencies, and investment needs to stakeholders and leadership.
• •Provide fact-based recommendations when priorities, business needs, and technology constraints compete.

Solution and Architecture Leadership

• •Guide Solution Analysts in understanding business problems, processes, requirements, and desired outcomes before defining technology solutions.
• •Ensure appropriate analysis is performed across processes, applications, integrations, APIs, data, controls, and upstream and downstream dependencies.
• •Partner with Solution Architects, engineers, and other technology specialists to evaluate solution options and technical trade-offs.
• •Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, integration, and technology standards.
• •Promote reuse, standardization, simplification, and sustainable enterprise solution patterns.
• •Challenge unnecessary customization and technical complexity.
• •Ensure solutions appropriately consider scalability, resiliency, security, performance, monitoring, maintainability, and supportability.
• •Ensure technical debt and architectural risks are understood and incorporated into technology planning.
• •Provide leadership and escalation support for complex issues spanning multiple applications or business capabilities.

Delivery and Execution Leadership

• •Provide leadership and accountability for successful delivery of Order Management technology capabilities.
• •Ensure effective coordination across Solution Analysts, Product Owners, architects, engineers, testers, support organizations, and technology partners.
• •Establish disciplined delivery practices for planning, requirements, decision management, issue resolution, risk management, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• •Ensure functional requirements and technical objectives remain aligned with intended business outcomes.
• •Monitor delivery progress and proactively address risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and barriers.
• •Coordinate dependencies across Order Management applications and related enterprise capabilities.
• •Ensure appropriate functional, technical, business, security, and operational readiness before production deployment.
• •Promote automation of softwar