Principal Digital Program Manager

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.
Provides enterprise-level program and delivery orchestration across multiple, complex digital initiatives. Owns integration of execution planning, dependency management, delivery cadence, and portfolio health to ensure predictable, scalable delivery outcomes.
This role institutionalizes delivery discipline so the organization scales through structure, reuse, and delivery flow-not heroics or leader-specific intervention.
What You Will Do:
Enterprise Delivery Orchestration• Own end-to-end delivery orchestration across multiple solutions and workstreams.• Integrate schedules, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and issues into a single execution system.• Enforce sequencing, stage gates, and delivery cadence across the portfolio.
Portfolio Management & Visibility• Maintain a consolidated view of demand, capacity, and delivery flow.• Surface cross-solution tradeoffs, bottlenecks, and sequencing decisions early.• Enable leadership decisions based on system-level impact rather than local optimization.
Change Management (Integrated)• Govern cumulative change impact, readiness, and saturation risk across initiatives.• Identify where change collides with delivery capacity or adoption readiness.• Sequence change to protect delivery throughput and operational stability.
Project Leader Governance & Coaching• Act as PM-of-PMs for Digital Project Managers (SG23-24).• Establish delivery standards, execution cadence, and escalation discipline.• Coach project leaders on enterprise-level dependency management, risk posture, and delivery judgment.
DevOps & Delivery Governance• Govern delivery effectiveness using outcome-based measures such as cycle time, stability, and rework.• Identify where process, tooling, or governance reduces delivery flow.• Ensure DevOps practices enable speed and quality without unnecessary overhead.
Optimization: Cost Out, Effectiveness Up• Identify rework, bespoke delivery patterns, and inefficient use of senior talent.• Recommend structural, sequencing, and governance improvements.• Drive cost efficiency through reuse, flow optimization, and discipline by design.
What You Have:
Planning: Tactical, Strategic - Level: Extensive Experience

• Integrates tactical execution plans with multi-year portfolio sequencing.
• Plans capacity, dependencies, and delivery flow across multiple initiatives.
• Aligns execution plans with enterprise priorities and funding decisions.
• Designs delivery plans that scale without increasing senior-leader dependency.
• Project Administration - Level: Extensive Experience
• Governs execution across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Consolidates milestones, RAID, and delivery signals into a single execution view.
• Establishes consistent communication and escalation rhythms. Ensures execution discipline is applied consistently across the portfolio.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking - Level: Extensive Experience

• Evaluates cross-initiative tradeoffs involving schedule, capacity, and risk.
• Anticipates second-order impacts of execution decisions.
• Advises leaders on sequencing, resourcing, and dependency resolution.
• Applies situational decision approaches to unblock delivery flow.

Data Gathering and Reporting - Level: Extensive Experience

• Defines execution health metrics and leading delivery indicators.
• Consolidates project-level data into portfolio-level insights.
• Enables fact-based leadership decisions with minimal reporting noise.
• Ensures accuracy, consistency, and actionability of delivery reporting.

Implementation - Level: Extensive Experience

• Coordinates cross-initiative readiness for major releases and deployments.
• Ensures implementation activities are sequenced to protect operational stability.
• Resolves execution conflicts impacting release quality or timing.

IT Project Control and Reporting - Level: Extensive Experience

• Controls and monitors execution across multiple IT projects as a program.
• Applies appropriate levels of rigor based on risk, complexity, and maturity.
• Consolidates delivery performance into a trusted leadership view.
• Uses milestone-based and earned-value controls where appropriate.

IT Project Management - Level: Extensive Experience

• Ensures delivery commitments are met across initiatives.
• Aligns technical execution with functional delivery objectives.
• Prevents systemic delivery failures through sequencing and flow design.
• Improves predictability and consistency of execution outcomes.

IT Standards, Procedures & Policies - Level: Extensive Experience

• Defines and enforces delivery governance, cadence, and execution standards.
• Evolves execution standards based on portfolio learning.
• Ensures standards scale across solutions without increasing overhead.

Measures of Success

• Improved delivery predictability and reduced escalation noise
• Consistent execution quality across projects and project managers
• Reduced rework and bespoke delivery
• Improved cost efficiency without throughput degradation
• Clear, fact-based portfolio insights for leadership

Additional Info:

• The location for this role is Irving, TX or Peoria, IL
• This position may require 20% travel.

About Caterpillar -
For more than a century, Caterpillar has helped build a better, more sustainable world. With 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is shaping the future as the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial, the company's primary business segments: Power & Energy, Construction Industries and Resource Industries are solving customers' toughest challenges through commercial excellence and advanced technology, driven by a highly skilled, dedicated global team. Learn more at www.caterpillar.com.
Summary Pay Range:
$147,760.00 - $221,640.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
April 30, 2026 - May 5, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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