3M

Automation Architect

3M
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2 days ago
Maplewood, MN, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$188k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term architecture and roadmap for cloud automation and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Design resilient, observable, and secure workflows using cloud-native solutions.
  • Identify opportunities for AI to improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
  • Build reusable automation frameworks, patterns, standards, and guardrails.
  • Guide architecture and technical decisions across multiple teams.
  • Mentor developers and lead design reviews.
  • Establish governance that helps experiments become reliable production capabilities.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership and support infrastructure automation, testing, observability, security, cost management, and operations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, completed and verified before start.
  • Ten years of software development experience in a private, public, government, or military environment.
  • Five years of infrastructure automation experience.
  • Three years of experience with AI tools.
  • Expert-level AWS serverless architecture experience, including secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
  • Experience turning complex business processes into reusable automation patterns, frameworks, and platforms.
  • Practical experience integrating generative AI, machine learning, or AI agents into business workflows.
  • Experience guiding architecture decisions, leading design reviews, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring developers.
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, cost management, and operational support.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without employment-visa sponsorship.
  • Applicants may need to provide information for assessment under U.S. Export Control Laws.

Benefits

  • On-site work model requiring at least four days per week at 3M Center in Maplewood, Minnesota.
  • 10% travel required.
  • Relocation available.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, disability benefits, life insurance, voluntary benefits, paid absences, and retirement benefits.
  • Eligible positions may include variable incentive pay.
  • US-based full-time employees must sign an employee agreement covering confidential information, trade secrets, conflicts of interest, and inventions.

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About 3M

10,000+ employees

3M makes materials, components, and consumer goods used in manufacturing, healthcare, electronics, transportation, and home/office settings. Its portfolio spans adhesives and tapes (e.g., Scotch and Post-it brands), abrasives, filtration, personal protective equipment, and specialty materials sold to businesses and consumers through distributors and retail channels. Founded in 1902 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, 3M is a public company listed on the NYSE with global R&D and manufacturing operations.

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