Design resilient, observable, and secure workflows using cloud native solutions and related practices.
Identify where AI can improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and the developer experience.
Build reusable frameworks and standards that reduce one-off development and accelerate delivery.
Guide technical decisions across multiple teams and influence how automation is adopted across the organization.
Mentor upcoming developers, helping them develop strong engineering judgment and architecture skills.
Bring structure to experimentation, ensuring promising ideas can mature into reliable production capabilities.
Raise the technical bar through thoughtful design reviews, practical governance, and hands-on leadership.
Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (completed and verified prior to start)
Ten (10) years of experience in software development in a private, public, government or military environment
Five (5) years of experience with infrastructure automation
Three (3) years of experience with AI tools
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:AWS Serverless Architecture
Expert-level experience designing secure, resilient, and scalable solutions using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and related service
Enterprise Automation Architecture
Proven ability to turn complex business processes into reusable automation patterns, frameworks, and platforms rather than disconnected scripts or one-off solutions.
AI and Intelligent Automation
Practical experience integrating generative AI, machine learning, or AI agents into business workflows, with strong judgment around security, governance, reliability, and appropriate use cases.
Technical Leadership and Developer Mentorship
Demonstrated success guiding architecture decisions, leading design reviews, establishing engineering standards, and helping developers grow into capable, independent engineers.
Production Engineering and Governance
Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, cost management, and operational support for business-critical automation.
Work location: This role has on-site working model, with the employee working at least four days a week in the office at 3M Center, located in Maplewood, MN.
Travel: 10%
Relocation: YES
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.
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To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.
The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.
Supporting Your Well-being
3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.
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Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $188,251 - $230,084, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/.
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