Infrastructure and Operations Principal Architect, ITD

Brookhaven National Laboratory is seeking a multidisciplinary technical leader to serve as the Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) Principal Architect within the Information Technology Division (ITD). Reporting to the ITD I&O department manager, this individual contributor provides technical leadership for the infrastructure and services that enable the Laboratory’s operations and scientific mission. The Principal Architect establishes standards and roadmaps, guides complex cross‑functional initiatives, and advises IT and Laboratory leaders on architecture, risk, and technology investments.

The role spans networks, compute, storage, cloud, identity, endpoint platforms, monitoring, and service resilience in a hybrid on‑premises and cloud environment. Drawing on hands‑on experience operating production services, the Principal Architect helps shape strategic roadmaps, advances infrastructure‑as‑code practices, and raises engineering maturity across teams. As a member of the ITD Architect Council, the architect also helps set technical direction for major IT investments and standards.

The Principal Architect supports the Laboratory’s evolving AI initiatives by partnering with application, data, and AI teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reusable platform capabilities for traditional and AI‑driven workloads. Success requires a collaborative problem‑solver who can mentor architects and senior engineers, challenge existing approaches, and lead the transformation of the Laboratory’s infrastructure platforms over the next several years. Success in this role requires someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, mentoring architects and senior engineers, challenging existing approaches, and building platforms that enable others to be successful.

We are looking for someone who wants to help transform where our current platforms go over the next several years, not simply maintain where they are today.

Brookhaven Lab's Information Technology Division's mission is to deliver safe, efficient operations that ensure the delivery of the Lab's research mission by:
Developing and deploying state‑of‑the‑art information and computing systems in support of scientific research and business operations Providing a reliable and secure, high‑speed network infrastructure for scientific and business computing Developing a scientific computing infrastructure that can support the computing needs common among the scientific departments Providing support to scientific and administrative programs to help them address their unique computing challenges Providing a cost‑effective, highly reliable, secure, and standardized computing infrastructure Promoting best practices in the areas of platform support, application development, and customer service Providing cost‑effective information services to the Brookhaven Lab community, including Research Library, publications, records management, and technical editing services, in support of the research mission and in compliance with contractual requirements ITD includes experts in IT infrastructure and operations, cyber security, business systems, data information, and information services, including records management and the Research Library.

The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator who is resourceful and innovative, and who understands that collaboration with stakeholders from across the Laboratory is critical to ensure the right expertise and technology are in place to advance our mission of bringing science solutions to the world.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure architectures, technical standards, reference designs, and multiyear roadmaps and serve on the ITD Architect…