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Job Description:

Senior Manager - Data Product Engineering

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers 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 3Mers.

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

3M is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Manager, Data Product Engineering to lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise data products that enable analytics, AI, and digital business capabilities. You will collaborate with curious, creative, and diverse teams around the world, delivering trusted, scalable, and reusable data products that create measurable business value.

As a Senior Manager, Data Product Engineering, you will make an impact by:

• Leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing team of Data Engineers and Technical Leads, building an engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Owning the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for enterprise data products - from product planning and technical design through development, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous enhancement.
• Driving engineering best practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, data quality validation, monitoring, data contracts, and documentation.
• Partnering with business stakeholders, Product Managers, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Governance to translate business capabilities into technical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
• Guiding cloud-native data solutions using Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, AWS, dbt, Python, SQL, APIs, streaming technologies, and data orchestration platforms.
• Ensuring data products are designed to support AI applications, machine learning, intelligent agents, semantic models, self-service analytics, and real-time operational decision making.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Data Engineers and Technical Leads
• Build an engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, automation, and continuous improvement
• Recruit and develop engineering talent
• Establish clear goals, career paths, and performance expectations
• Foster collaboration across engineering, architecture, product management, and business teams

Data Product Delivery

• Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for enterprise data products including:
• Product planning and technical design
• Development, testing, and deployment
• Production support and continuous enhancement
• Ensure products are reliable, well documented, secure, governed, observable, and reusable across the enterprise

Engineering Excellence

• Drive engineering best practices including:
• CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
• Automated testing and data quality validation
• Monitoring and alerting
• Version control, data contracts, and documentation
• Champion modern software engineering practices within data engineering

Business Partnership

• Partner with Business Product Managers, Domain leaders, Enterprise Architects, Platform Engineering, Data Governance, and Security
• Translate business capabilities into technical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes

Operational Excellence

• Own operational health including availability, performance, data freshness, and data quality
• Manage incidents, cost optimization, and technical debt
• Establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and continuously improve platform reliability

AI Enablement

• Ensure data products are designed to support:
• AI applications and machine learning
• Intelligent agents and semantic models
• Self-service analytics and real-time operational decision making

What This Role Does Not Do

• Own platform infrastructure engineering or AWS infrastructure delivery
• Perform individual contributor data engineering (pipeline development)
• Define business metrics, KPIs, or semantic models
• Create dashboards, reports, or BI content
• Operate as a project manager without engineering accountability

What Success Looks Like

• On-time delivery of committed roadmap with strong business adoption
• High deployment frequency and low lead time for change
• Platform availability and data quality SLAs consistently met
• Growing number of reusable enterprise data products and AI-ready datasets
• Reduction in duplicate data pipelines
• Team engagement, retention, and talent development
• Business KPI improvements enabled by delivered products

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, Engineering, Information Systems, or technology field (completed and verified prior to start)
• Ten (10) years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or Data Platforms in a private, public, government or military environment
• Five (5) years leading engineering teams in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions
• Strong knowledge of modern data architectures
• Experience with Agile delivery models
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills
• AWS, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Databricks
• dbt, Python, Spark, SQL
• Kafka or streaming technologies
• Data Mesh or domain-oriented architectures
• Product operating models
• AI and Machine Learning data platforms
• Experience operating in a large, global, regulated enterprise environment
• Manufacturing, supply chain, or enterprise analytics experience

Work location:

• Work location: Maplewood, MN

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international

Relocation: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

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/.Good Faith Posting Date Range 06/29/2026 To 07/29/2026 Or until filledAll US-based 3M full time employees will need to sign an employee agreement as a condition of employment with 3M. This agreement lays out key terms on using 3M Confidential Information and Trade Secrets. It also has provisions discussing conflicts of interest and how inventions are assigned. Employees that are Job Grade 7 or equivalent and above may also have obligations to not compete against 3M or solicit its employees or customers, both during their employment, and for a period after they leave 3M.Learn more about 3M's creative solutions to the world's problems at www.3M.com or on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @3M.Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.Safety is a core value at 3M. All employees are expected to contribute to a strong Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture by following safety policies, identifying hazards, and engaging in continuous improvement.Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/3M does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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