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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT Architect, Principal - **Company:** Qualcomm - **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $168,000.0 - $252,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Power BI, Tableau (Software), Enterprise Data Management, Data Strategy, Databricks - **Published:** June 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5f1735fa26a346f7 ## About the Role Do you have experience in IT department experience?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Master's degree in IT-related field. * Intricate, hands-on knowledge of the semiconductor industry and its data and business processes. * Hands-on expertise with Databricks, Tableau and/or Power BI, and AI/ML solution development. * Curious, problem-solving and innovative mindset; comfortable moving at speed, challenging the status quo, and helping the rest of the team see the big picture., * 8+ years of IT-specific work experience with a Bachelor's degree., 10+ years of IT-specific work experience without a Bachelor's degree. ## Description * Drives thought leadership in championing the Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) across various business functions, influencing adoption and aligning data strategy with business objectives. * Architects cutting-edge and innovative intelligence solutions leveraging Databricks, AI/ML and BI to solve complex, highly impactful business problems. * Drives the maturity and enablement of the EDH ecosystem through a community of practice, delivering best practices and emerging industry trends to internal stakeholders. * Drives the maturity of self-service enablement and adoption, empowering business functions to derive value from data independently. * Executes tasks and makes decisions with large impact and scope, and provides oversight when needed to drive multiple, highly complex cross-organizational projects and other assignments forward. * Drives collaboration with internal and external leaders across IT, and other senior leaders to solve complex problems. * Proactively identifies problems, aligns resource plans with business objectives, and oversees the planning, coordination, and assignment of talent to accomplish priorities and deadlines, and to improve organizational efficiency. * Conducts autonomous research and learning, and testing of new IT technology to develop new processes, applications, or solutions, and presents detailed demonstrations or proof of concepts to senior leaders across the organization. * Engages with business partners cross-functionally (e.g., testing group, product group, customers) to develop and execute a plan and system design for a large initiative. * Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and other industry leaders. * Seeks out and capitalizes on improvement opportunities, often at a level that affects cross-functional teams and business partners internally and externally to the organization, and takes ownership of high priority issues or risks, as appropriate. * Brings forth innovative solutions for complex issues in IT ecosystems by leveraging cross-functional and industry contacts, and troubleshoots problems of any complexity. * Engages business partners and communicates across the organization to resolve large scale system/program conflicts and challenges. * Displays thought leadership and identifies the state of system solutions, approaches, or other technical information and compares against industry standards to identify opportunities for improvement. * Presents end-to-end solutions within and outside of project team to ensure project completion, and influences decision making process. * Considers all aspects as lead of a design by determining which teams should get involved and which tests need to be conducted, reviewing risk areas and impact, and highlighting the right set of issues to share with senior leadership and the entire team. Level of Responsibility: * Working independently with no supervision. * Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with more significant in their impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct. * Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents. * Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization). * Using deductive and inductive problem solving is required; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required. * Exercising exceptional creativity is needed to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters. * Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations. ## Related Videos - [Architecting the Future: Leveraging AI, Cloud, and Data for Business Success](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1096-architecting-the-future-leveraging-ai-cloud-and-data-for-business-success) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) - [REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and more: A comparison of modern API styles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100247-rest-graphql-grpc-and-more-a-comparison-of-modern-api-styles) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Python Data Visualization @ Deepnote (w/ PyViz overview)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/113-python-data-visualization-deepnote-w-pyviz-overview) - [From A2A to MCP: How AI’s “Brains” are Connecting to “Arms and Legs”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1631-from-a2a-to-mcp-how-ai-s-brains-are-connecting-to-arms-and-legs) ## Related Articles - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [IT Salaries in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/287-it-salaries-in-germany) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers)