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.

Equal Opportunities

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.