Automation Architect

Job Description:

Automation Architect Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers Around the World Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3

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This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role As a 3M Automation Architect, you will shape the future of enterprise automation by turning complex business challenges into scalable, intelligent solutions.

You will establish the architectural direction for automation built on cloud-native services, Artificial Intelligence, and modern development practices. Your work will go beyond designing individual workflows. You will create the patterns, guardrails, and reusable capabilities that enable teams to deliver automation faster, more safely, and with greater confidence.

This is an opportunity to create more than automation. You will build the foundation, technical culture, and talent pipeline that determine how the organization delivers intelligent solutions for years to come.

Key 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 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, Event Bridge, 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…