Principal Solution Architect

Job Overview:

Productivity Engineering within Arm enables our global engineering community through high-performance infrastructure, engineering platforms, software workflows, and data-driven services.

We are looking for a Principal Solution Architect focused on platform integration, data strategy, and solution architecture. This role will define how engineering platforms, tools, APIs, workflows, and data capabilities connect into scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that improve engineering productivity across Arm.

Responsibilities:

• Define target architecture for integrated engineering platforms and data solutions.

• Translate business and engineering needs into practical solution designs.

• Establish integration patterns, data standards, and reference architectures.

• Partner across engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and enterprise architecture teams.

• Shape data strategy across ingestion, governance, quality, metadata, and analytics enablement.

• Identify capability gaps, architectural risks, and investment priorities.

• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and cost-effective.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Significant experience as a solution architect, platform architect, enterprise architect, or data architect.

• Experience designing integrated platforms across cloud, on-prem infrastructure, APIs, microservices, and data platforms.

• Strong understanding of platform engineering, software delivery, infrastructure services, and developer experience.

• Experience with data strategy, data integration, analytics enablement, or data architecture.

• Ability to influence senior partners and align teams across a global organization.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to balance strategic direction with practical delivery.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Experience in semiconductor, hardware engineering, EDA, or engineering productivity environments.

• Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage, catalogues, or enterprise data platforms.

• Experience with architecture governance, technology roadmaps, vendor management, or investment planning.

In Return:

Join a collaborative, fast-moving team solving meaningful platform challenges. You’ll have room to grow technically, contribute directly to platform strategy, and improve performance for thousands of engineers across Arm.

Please note that a relocation package (including visa sponsorship support) is available for this role, for candidates who require it.

Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.