Automation Architect

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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.

• →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.

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

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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