Principal Architect in Berkeley Heights, NJ/Alpharetta, GA

Job Title: Principal Architect

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ/Alpharetta, GA(Onsite)

Job Type: W2 or Full time

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Sovereignty: Design and govern the enterprise-wide blueprints for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments.

• Massive Migration Leadership: Lead the technical strategy for migrating thousands of applications from physical data centers to optimized cloud or colocation endpoints.

• The "Owner-Builder" Execution: Bridge the gap between high-level strategy and tactical execution. You don't just hand off a design; you audit the code, validate the CI/CD pipelines, and ensure the "build" matches the "vision."

• Program Orchestration: Act as the technical North Star for large-scale programs, ensuring disparate workstreams (security, networking, compute, and app dev) remain aligned.

• High-Stakes Stakeholder Management: Translate complex technical risks into business outcomes for C-suite executives while maintaining deep credibility with engineering teams.

• Operational Readiness: Ensure that migrated applications aren't just "moved," but are resilient, observable, and cost-optimized.

The Ideal Profile

• Diverse Technical Arsenal: You are "T-Shaped." You have deep expertise in Applications but are equally comfortable discussing Infrastructure services.

• Migration Veteran: You’ve lived through the "war stories" of large-scale data center exits. You know how to handle "un-migratable" legacy apps and complex dependencies.

• The "Builder" Mindset: You likely have a background in software engineering or systems administration. You prefer a whiteboard and a terminal over a 50-slide PowerPoint deck.

• Travel-Ready: You thrive on the ground. You are comfortable traveling up to 50% to interface with data center teams, regional hubs, and global stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 12 years in technical leadership roles, with at least 5 years as a Lead or Chief Architect.

• Migration Mastery: Proven track record of leading at least two $50M data center migration or transformation programs.

• Cloud Fluency: Expert-level certifications (or equivalent experience) in AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Communication: Ability to command a room of engineers and a boardroom of executives simultaneously.

• Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent "battle-tested" experience).

Thanks and regards,

Deepa Maurya | Technical Recruiter - US Staffing

Email: deepa.m@ampstek.com | Desk: (609) 527-8971

Ampstek LLC – Global IT Partner | www.ampstek.com