Databricks Lead (Staff IT Engineer)

Summary

Lead the design, build, and operation of enterprise-scale Databricks Lakehouse platforms at Qualcomm, driving AI-native development, MLOps practices, and cloud modernization. This hands-on Staff IT Engineer role requires 4–5 years of Databricks experience and 8–12 years total IT background, with responsibility for platform architecture (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows), machine learning enablement (MLflow, Mosaic AI), AIOps automation, and technical mentoring of engineers. You will establish engineering standards, optimize platform performance and cost, implement observability and self-healing automation, and drive adoption of generative AI tools and intelligent automation across development teams.