Most coverage of “Atlanta tech” lives inside the perimeter – Tech Square, Atlanta Tech Village, the BeltLine startup belt. That’s where the venture-backed founder story lives, and it deserves the attention it gets. But the bulk of metro Atlanta’s actual tech employment – measured in people on payroll, square footage occupied, and Fortune 500 tech operations footprint – sits north of I-285, distributed across Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Marietta, Duluth, Peachtree Corners, and the surrounding suburbs.
This is a working directory of those above-the-perimeter tech employers. We built it to give industry insiders, job seekers, journalists, recruiters, investors, and the curious a rigorous starting point – and to give ourselves an editorial spine for the geographic reporting we plan to do over the coming months.
A note on scope
By “above I-285” we mean exactly that: companies whose primary north-metro operation sits north of the I-285 perimeter, in North Fulton, North Cobb, North Gwinnett, or Forsyth County. Inside-the-perimeter tech (Buckhead, Midtown, Downtown, Decatur) gets its own directory in a future piece. Where a company’s headquarters sits inside the perimeter but a meaningful tech operation sits above it, we include the above-the-perimeter facility and note the headquarters separately.
We’ve included companies whose Atlanta-area tech presence is real and verifiable today, regardless of whether the company itself is technically a “tech company.” A Fortune 500 firm running a major data, AI, or engineering operation north of 285 belongs in this directory whether the parent business is restaurants, insurance, or aerospace.
A note on methodology
Every entry below is backed by at least one non-press-release verification source – current company websites and careers pages, current LinkedIn locations, current job postings, recent (2024–2026) news coverage, real estate filings, or some combination. Companies whose presence we could only confirm through a vintage press release are flagged at the end of this piece for further verification rather than listed as canonical.
A recent ATN piece taught us a hard lesson on this: a state-government press release announced a major Alpharetta gaming-company expansion that, in reality, never materialized – the building has since been demolished. We don’t intend to repeat that mistake.
This directory will be revised. If you work at a company that should be here, you spot something stale, or you want to flag a contraction we missed, the contact information is at the bottom.
North Fulton
Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Roswell, Johns Creek, Milton.
The densest concentration of above-the-perimeter tech employment, anchored by the Windward Parkway corridor in Alpharetta and the Perimeter Center / Central Perimeter cluster in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody.
Accenture (Alpharetta operations)
Management consulting, technology services, digital transformation · Multiple Alpharetta facilities · North Fulton Scale: ~2,900 Atlanta-area employees; 589 active Alpharetta job postings as of March 2026
Accenture runs Atlanta-area technology delivery operations from multiple Alpharetta facilities, with active hiring in operations, project management, automation, and testing roles. The firm separately announced a planned reduction of 54 Atlanta-based positions effective June 2026 tied to client contract changes, so the local picture is mixed: aggressive hiring in some practice areas alongside contraction in others. A useful watch entry as the firm continues to rebalance its Atlanta footprint.
ADP (Automatic Data Processing)
Payroll processing, HR services, enterprise software · 5800 / 5995 Windward Parkway, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: not publicly disclosed; two-building Windward campus
ADP operates a long-established two-building campus on Windward Parkway, providing payroll, HR, tax, talent management, and benefits administration services. The facility has been one of the corridor’s stable enterprise-tech employers across multiple economic cycles.
AT&T (Alpharetta tech operations)
Telecommunications, network engineering, intern pipeline · Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: not publicly disclosed
AT&T runs Alpharetta-based technology programs including a Network CTO office and an active internship pipeline that funnels engineers toward the company’s broader Georgia operations. The carrier has signaled additional Central Perimeter expansion plans including a potential 166,000-square-foot call center at Northpark Town Center, though that lease was still under negotiation as of late 2025 and we are not yet treating it as confirmed. AT&T also reports approximately $16.9 billion in Georgia network infrastructure investment between 2020 and 2024.
Bakkt
Digital assets, cryptocurrency, fintech infrastructure · 10000 Avalon Boulevard, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: 100–200 (estimated, post-restructuring)
Bakkt continues to operate from its Avalon headquarters following a substantial 2025 restructuring that exited the company’s custody and loyalty businesses and refocused operations around its Bakkt Markets, Bakkt Agent, and Bakkt Global product lines. The company eliminated long-term debt and completed approximately $100 million in strategic capital raises in 2025, but headcount has reduced significantly across multiple layoff rounds. Treat Bakkt’s local scale as smaller than its public-company profile suggests.
Cox Enterprises / Cox Automotive
Automotive technology, media, communications · 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Sandy Springs · North Fulton Scale: 500+ at the Sandy Springs/Dunwoody location
Cox Automotive — owner of Manheim, Kelley Blue Box, AutoTrader, vAuto, Dealer.com, and Dealertrack — is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider, and a meaningful slice of its operations runs out of the Peachtree Dunwoody Road campus. Parent company Cox Enterprises is privately held with global headcount above 55,000.
Datavant (formerly Ciox Health)
Healthcare data, revenue cycle management, analytics · 925 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta (former Ciox HQ); registered agent in Norcross · North Fulton (with Norcross facility) Scale: ~300+ pre-acquisition; integration ongoing
Ciox Health was acquired by Datavant in July 2025, with operations now integrating under the Datavant healthcare data platform. The Alpharetta facility on North Point Parkway and the Norcross registered office both remain part of the local footprint, though staffing and branding are still in transition. Worth watching as the integration finalizes.
Equifax
Cybersecurity, data analytics, identity verification, credit reporting · 1505 Windward Concourse, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: ~2,000 employees and contractors
The largest Equifax office location in the world, in operation continuously for over 35 years. In February 2026 the company announced a $25 million expansion that will add roughly 250 jobs and convert 65,000 square feet of former data center space on the third floor of the JV White 1 building into office space for the company’s Corporate Technology team. Renovations begin later in 2026.
EY.ai Lab
Applied AI, robotics, physical AI R&D · Alpharetta (specific address not publicly disclosed) · North Fulton Scale: estimated 50–200 dedicated lab staff
EY’s first fully dedicated physical-AI lab, opened December 3, 2025, in partnership with NVIDIA. The lab focuses on integrating AI into physical environments — robotics, sensors, and simulation — and serves as the operating base for Dr. Youngjun Choi, EY’s recently appointed Global Robotics and Physical AI Leader. One of the most strategically significant new arrivals to the corridor.
Fiserv
Financial services technology, payments, banking infrastructure · 2900 / 2950 Westside Parkway, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: 376,351 square feet leased through 2027; supports 500+ employees
Fiserv operates from a two-building, 376,351-square-foot complex on Westside Parkway, including a state-of-the-art client briefing center. The company’s current Alpharetta lease runs through 2027; renewal or expansion decisions during the next two years will be a corridor story worth watching.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Enterprise computing, IT infrastructure, graphics technology · 5555 Windward Parkway, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: not publicly disclosed; estimated 200+
HPE’s Alpharetta campus on Windward Parkway houses the HP Graphics Experience Center, an industrial printing technology lab and customer engagement facility, alongside enterprise infrastructure and product design operations.
InComm Payments
Payment technology, fintech, prepaid and incentive solutions · Alpharetta and Norcross facilities (corporate HQ at 250 Williams Street, Atlanta) · North Fulton (with Norcross presence) Scale: 2,594 employees globally; meaningful north-metro concentration
InComm Payments has built a 30-year payments business spanning 525,000 retail and online distribution points, 412 global patents, and operations in 40-plus countries. The corporate headquarters sits inside the perimeter at 250 Williams Street, but the company runs significant facilities in Alpharetta and Norcross supporting cash digitization, card solutions, account funding, healthcare benefits, and gifting/incentive products.
Inspire Brands
Restaurant operations technology, supply chain, marketing tech · 3 Glenlake Parkway, Sandy Springs · North Fulton Scale: 1,100+ jobs created at HQ since 2018; ongoing operations
Inspire is the multi-brand restaurant company behind Dunkin’, Baskin-Robbins, Jamba, Arby’s, and others. The Sandy Springs headquarters includes a 15,000-square-foot Innovation Center used for testing kitchen equipment, restaurant-tech prototypes, robotics, and marketing production. Significant in-house functions across IT, marketing, finance, operations, and data science.
L3Harris Technologies
Defense technology, C3ISR systems, wireless and avionics · 1355 Bluegrass Lakes Parkway, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: 200+ estimated for Georgia operations
L3Harris’s Alpharetta facility supports the defense contractor’s command/control, wireless, tactical radio, avionics, night-vision, ISR, and ocean-systems lines of business. Active hiring across multiple Georgia roles. Strategic context: the company has signaled a major recent investment cycle in its Missile Solutions division, though we are still tracking how much of that flows to the Alpharetta facility specifically.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Risk analytics, data intelligence, insurance technology · 1000 Alderman Drive, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: 1,000+ estimated
The global headquarters of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a subsidiary of RELX Group, has operated in Alpharetta for over 35 years. The company serves customers in 100-plus countries with risk data and analytics products, and the Alderman Drive facility remains its primary worldwide operations center.
Mavenir
Telecom infrastructure, open RAN, 5G/6G software · 5405 Windward Parkway, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: ~300+ local (estimated); ~4,000 globally, post-restructuring
Mavenir’s Alpharetta operations remain in place following a 2024–2025 financial restructuring that included substantial RAN engineering layoffs in the United States and India and the elimination of more than $1.3 billion in debt through a recapitalization. Approximately 90 percent of the company’s business now sits in core services (IMS, messaging, packet core, billing) with open RAN at roughly 10 percent. Stability in 2026 will depend on how the focused-software strategy executes; treat the local footprint as smaller and more cautious than its prior peak.
Morgan Stanley
Wealth management technology, financial services · 1 and 3 Edison Drive, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: ~2,500 employees — Alpharetta’s largest single resident employer
Morgan Stanley occupies approximately 216,000 square feet across the Edison Alpharetta complex following a 2023–2024 lease expansion of more than 100,000 additional square feet and an October 2024 ribbon-cutting on the expanded space. The Alpharetta campus is the post-E*TRADE-integration center for a meaningful slice of the firm’s wealth-management technology operations.
Siemens
Industrial automation, digital industries software, energy systems · 100 Technology Drive, Alpharetta · North Fulton Scale: 300–500 estimated across multiple divisions
Siemens runs the Siemens Xcelerator Academy training center from Alpharetta, alongside operations from multiple divisions including Digital Industries Software, Energy, and Process Industries & Drives. Active federal contractor through December 2026; recurring presence at industry events including ProMat 2025 and the Hydrogen Tech Expo.
State Farm (Park Center campus)
Insurance, digital transformation, data and software engineering · Park Center, Dunwoody · North Fulton Scale: 1,000+ estimated; 2.2 million square feet at full build-out
State Farm’s Park Center campus is the largest corporate office project in metro Atlanta history, with Phase I (Building 1, 602,000 square feet, 21 stories) complete and Phase II (Buildings 2 and 3) under construction. The campus operates as a regional hub supporting State Farm’s broader digital transformation, and the company runs a hybrid in-office model with designated weeks on site.
UPS (Sandy Springs HQ + Alpharetta consolidation)
Logistics technology, supply chain software, corporate operations · 55 Glenlake Parkway, Sandy Springs (HQ); 12380 Morris Road, Alpharetta (operational hub) · North Fulton Scale: ~2,000 at Sandy Springs HQ; ~500 relocating to Alpharetta as of February 2026
UPS’s two-tower corporate headquarters in Sandy Springs has been the company’s anchor since 1994. In a development worth tracking, the company is consolidating roughly 500 employees from Sandy Springs to its Alpharetta facility on Morris Road, with the move underway as of early 2026. UPS also operates the Windward Data Center in southern Forsyth County (see below).
North Cobb
Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna.
The center of metro Atlanta’s defense-technology cluster, plus a major healthcare-IT operation. Often left out of “Atlanta tech” coverage because it doesn’t fit the venture-startup narrative, but it’s a substantial slice of the corridor by employment.
The Home Depot (corporate technology operations)
Retail technology, supply chain, e-commerce, AI/ML · 2455 Paces Ferry Road SE, Vinings (Cobb County) · North Cobb (border with I-285) Scale: 1,000+ estimated for corporate tech operations
A geographic edge case: the Home Depot’s corporate campus sits in Vinings, in Cobb County just north of where I-285 crosses the Chattahoochee, putting it technically above the perimeter. We include it because the company’s tech footprint is large — active AI engineering, software engineering, and supply-chain technology hiring — and a $140 million expansion across the headquarters and two other corporate campuses was approved in September 2025 with a target completion around 2030.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Defense technology, aerospace, military aircraft production · Marietta · North Cobb Scale: ~5,600 Georgia-based employees — the single largest above-I-285 tech employer
The Marietta facility runs the longest continuous military-aircraft production line in the world (the C-130J Super Hercules), alongside sustainment and modernization work on the F-22, C-5M, and P-3 Orion. Lockheed’s Georgia operations represent roughly $4.5 billion in annual statewide economic impact across more than 350 supplier relationships. By head count, this is the single largest tech-adjacent employer above I-285.
Northrop Grumman
Defense technology, aerospace, systems integration · Halsey Avenue, Marietta · North Cobb Scale: 200+ estimated for Marietta operations
Northrop runs Marietta-based operations supporting its broader defense-systems portfolio. Corporate-level guidance for 2026 anticipates $43.5–$44 billion in sales with mid-single-digit growth, supported by a record 2025 backlog of approximately $95.7 billion. Specific Marietta-facility scope is less publicly documented than Lockheed’s; treat as a real but smaller defense-cluster anchor.
Wellstar Health System (corporate IT operations)
Healthcare technology, digital health, cloud and data infrastructure · Marietta · North Cobb Scale: 500+ IT staff (estimated)
Wellstar’s Marietta corporate operations include the system’s IT, data, and digital-health functions, and have led a multi-year cloud and data-platform modernization. Leadership transition in early 2026: long-tenured Chief Data Officer Brent Matthewson departed for a new role in Maryland, leaving an open question about the next chapter of Wellstar’s data strategy. The Wellstar Digital Health Network, which extends specialist access into rural Georgia, is one of the more interesting health-tech buildouts in the state.
North Gwinnett
Duluth, Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Lawrenceville.
A smaller but increasingly interesting cluster, anchored by Primerica’s Duluth headquarters and the smart-city work at Curiosity Lab in Peachtree Corners.
AGCO Corporation
Agricultural technology, smart farming, autonomous systems · Duluth · North Gwinnett Scale: 500+ estimated at Duluth HQ
AGCO, a global agricultural-equipment company with $11.7 billion in 2024 sales, runs its corporate headquarters from Duluth. In March 2026 the company appointed Jena Holtberg-Benge as Chief Digital and Information Officer to lead digital, data, and IT strategy. AGCO’s stated long-term goal is autonomous farming solutions covering the entire crop cycle by 2030 — a meaningful applied-AI commitment that doesn’t get enough attention in Atlanta tech coverage.
Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners
Smart-city innovation, autonomous systems, emerging-tech testbed · Peachtree Corners · North Gwinnett Scale: 30–50 staff (estimated); 25,000-square-foot facility
A non-profit innovation lab and one of the country’s most significant smart-city testbeds. The lab runs a 25,000-square-foot facility with workshops, offices, classrooms, and event space, and partners with companies like Clevon (autonomous delivery) on real-world testing. Recent milestones: Emily Heintz appointed Executive Director (December 2025); the first Georgia Tech Atrium opened on site in April 2025; an MOU with ATR Japan signed in November 2025; a presence at the Smart City Expo World Congress (2025). One of the highest-leverage public-private innovation operations in the metro.
Primerica
Financial services, insurance technology, data infrastructure · 1 Primerica Parkway, Duluth · North Gwinnett Scale: 18,000+ employees globally; significant Duluth concentration
Primerica’s international headquarters spans 367,000 square feet in Duluth and houses a data center processing 1.8 million-plus transactions daily. The technology stack includes Oracle, Cisco, and Microsoft platforms, with a software-engineering footprint largely in C# and Adobe-toolchain work. A long-overlooked anchor of the north-Gwinnett tech employment story.
RaceTrac
Retail technology, supply chain, mobile and rewards platforms · 5700 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Norcross (operational center; corporate HQ at 200 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta) · North Gwinnett Scale: 500+ across Norcross/Atlanta tech operations
RaceTrac’s tech transformation accelerated with the 2025 hire of Ameet Shetty (formerly Equifax Chief Data Officer) as Chief Technology Officer. Active 2025–2026 work includes mobile app and RaceTrac Rewards modernization, supply-chain and forecourt-equipment platform updates, and a 2026 roadmap focused on AI and data for personalization, self-service, and faster checkout. A surprisingly real tech operation hiding inside a convenience-store brand.
Forsyth County
Cumming, southern Forsyth.
The thinnest of the four sub-regions for major tech employers, but a watch area: the GA-400 Technology Corridor extension projects an additional 114,000 jobs along the corridor by 2050, and Forsyth’s residential growth is among the fastest in the metro.
UPS Windward Data Center
Logistics technology infrastructure · Southern Forsyth County · Forsyth Scale: critical infrastructure; staff scale not publicly disclosed
UPS operates a major data center in southern Forsyth County that serves as central infrastructure for the company’s global technology operations. While UPS’s people-heavy operations sit in Sandy Springs and Alpharetta (see North Fulton), the Windward facility is a meaningful Forsyth tech footprint in its own right.
Notable absences and watchlist
The following well-known names are deliberately not on this directory, in most cases because they’re inside or south of I-285 (and will appear in a future inside-the-perimeter directory) or because we couldn’t verify a current above-I-285 operation to our standard:
Inside or south of I-285 (covered separately): Calendly (Buckhead), Salesloft (Buckhead), BIP Capital (Buckhead), Manhattan Associates (2300 Windy Ridge Parkway, just inside I-285), NCR Voyix (Midtown), Salesforce (East Paces Ferry, Buckhead — though a $15 million expansion announced in November 2025 may add Atlanta-area capacity by 2028), Global Payments (HQ relocated to Lenox Road), Cardinal Health (Decatur), Dolby (downtown), Georgia Tech and the broader Tech Square cluster (Midtown).
Verification pending (we’ll update as we confirm): McKesson’s Atlanta-area technology operations (HQ is in Irving, Texas; we couldn’t yet pin down a north-of-I-285 facility at meaningful scale); a possible Verizon innovation or 5G facility in Alpharetta (referenced in older press releases; not currently verifiable to our standard); Floor & Decor’s tech operations (Smyrna HQ sits at the I-285 boundary; tech-team location not yet confirmed); Genuine Parts Company / NAPA’s technology operations (HQ in Atlanta; specific north-metro tech hubs not yet identified).
Confirmed contractions, deliberately not listed as canonical: Hi-Rez Studios (the gaming company has contracted from approximately 500 employees to fewer than 40, vacated and saw the demolition of its Brookside Parkway building, but continues to list an Alpharetta address). We track the contractions in our reporting but do not list a contracted operation in a directory of active employers.
Help us improve this directory
We expect to revise this directory regularly. If you work at a company that should be on it, you spot something stale, you have better headcount data than we do, or you can tell us about a major operation we missed entirely, we want to hear from you. Email us at the address on the Atlanta Tech News contact page, message us through LinkedIn, or share this piece with the relevant note attached.
Three specific asks: if you work in HR, communications, or facilities at any of the companies listed, we’d welcome a confirmation or correction. If you’re a chamber leader, economic development professional, or commercial real estate broker working the corridor, we’d welcome your additions and your reads on what’s coming. And if you work at a company that’s quietly contracting and the picture above it is too rosy, we’d particularly want to know — accuracy matters more to us than boosterism.
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