Data Engineer - IT Data Analytics Team
Job Description
3M is hiring a Data Engineer for the IT Data Analytics team to help design, build, and support scalable data solutions that power enterprise analytics and data products. This onsite role in Maplewood focuses on data pipelines, data lake and warehouse capabilities, ETL/ELT workflows, and CI/CD-enabled deployments, with close collaboration across analytics, product, business, and technology groups.
The position supports trusted, analytics-ready data assets and emphasizes reliability, security, and operational standards for production data platforms. You will translate business needs into scalable data solutions while monitoring data quality and pipeline performance, troubleshooting complex issues, and continuously improving engineering practices.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data integration solutions.
- Build and support trusted data products, including curated datasets, reusable data assets, semantic layers, and analytics-ready data models.
- Configure, optimize, and operate data lake, data warehouse, and analytics platform components.
- Apply DevOps practices such as CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and deployment automation for data engineering solutions.
- Monitor data quality, pipeline performance, platform reliability, and production support processes.
- Partner with product owners, analysts, architects, and stakeholders to convert business requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Implement security, access control, backup, recovery, documentation, and operational standards for data platforms and data products.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive continuous improvement in data engineering tools, practices, and delivery standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start).
- Five (5) years of IT experience in the Data Analytics domain with experience in data engineering, data warehouse development, data pipelines, or data platform configuration in a private, public, government, or military environment.
Technologies you’ll use
- SQL, Python, ETL/ELT
- Snowflake, Databricks, Azure
- Power BI
- SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW On HANA, SAP HANA
- AWS
- Git-based version control
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with data platforms and tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, Power BI, or similar technologies.
- SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW On HANA, or SAP HANA knowledge is a plus.
- AWS stack experience preferred, including services supporting data lake, storage, compute, orchestration, and analytics workloads.
- Databricks experience preferred, including notebook development, data engineering workflows, or lakehouse architecture.
- Experience supporting data lakes, data products, analytics solutions, APIs, or integration development.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, automated testing, and deployment automation.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Compensation and schedule
- Salary range: $109,202 - $133,469 per year.
- Maplewood, MN onsite at least 4 days per week.
- Travel: may include up to 10%.
- Relocation assistance: may be authorized.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental & Vision
- Health Savings Accounts
- Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Disability Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits
- Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits
Additional notes
- Expected compensation range includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.
- Good faith posting date range: 11/02/2026 to 12/02/2026 or until filled.
- All US-based 3M full time employees must sign an employee agreement as a condition of employment, covering use of confidential information and trade secrets, conflicts of interest and invention assignment, and potential non-compete or non-solicitation obligations for certain job grades.
- Safety is a core value at 3M; employees are expected to contribute to an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture.
- Your application may not be considered if you do not provide education and work history by uploading a resume or entering details directly in the application fields.