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# Lead Principal Engineer for Data Center Architecture

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Santa Fe, NM, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $146,300.0 - $306,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software Architecture, AI Infrastructure, High Performance Computing, Deployment Automation
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/FA69DA0DF70E4B03B69901BA179ADC17/job/

## About the Role

* Strong knowledge of modern data center and campus architecture, including power, cooling, networking, storage connectivity, physical infrastructure, colocation considerations, and operational resiliency.
 * Experience developing AI infrastructure deployment strategies across sites, campuses, or colocation environments.
 * Ability to evaluate site and data-hall constraints, including physical layout, rack placement, power availability, cooling capacity, density limits, and serviceability.
 * Experience with capacity planning and rack-power modeling for high-density AI infrastructure.
 * Strong understanding of high-performance networking, scale-out connectivity, and storage-related network demand for AI environments.
 * Ability to develop flexible infrastructure options and late-binding strategies as technology, capacity, and customer requirements evolve.
 * Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate architectural decisions, deployment risks, customer commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.
 * Ability to coordinate effectively across facilities, network, storage, colocation, hardware, software, and business teams., * 8+ years of experience in data center architecture, infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, or large-scale cloud infrastructure deployment.
 * Experience with AI labs, high-density AI infrastructure, HPC environments, or large-scale cloud campuses.
 * Experience with site selection, colocation evaluation, campus planning, and data-hall layout optimization.
 * Experience with power and cooling design, power capping, thermal assessment, densification, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
 * Experience evaluating multi-site deployment readiness and managing platform or capacity pivots.
 * Familiarity with accelerator platform requirements and their implications for power, cooling, networking, storage, and facility design.

## Description

This position is ideal for an experienced data center architect who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges across sites, campuses, and colocation facilities. You will play a pivotal role in enabling high-density AI deployments through thoughtful site selection, capacity planning, power and cooling design, connectivity planning, and multi-site readiness assessments.