Principal Solution Architect

Principal Solution Architect Overview

The Principal Solution Architect role at Arm in Cambridge is a pivotal position within the Productivity Engineering team, which empowers the global engineering community through high-performance infrastructure, engineering platforms, software workflows, and data-driven services. This role focuses on platform integration, data strategy, and solution architecture, aiming to enhance engineering productivity across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define the target architecture for integrated engineering platforms and data solutions.
• Translate business and engineering requirements into actionable solution designs.
• Establish integration patterns, data standards, and reference architectures.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and enterprise architecture teams.
• Shape the data strategy encompassing ingestion, governance, quality, metadata, and analytics enablement.
• Identify capability gaps, architectural risks, and set investment priorities.
• Ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and cost-effective.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in roles such as solution architect, platform architect, enterprise architect, or data architect.
• Proven experience in designing integrated platforms across cloud, on-premises 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 stakeholders and align teams across a global organization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to balance strategic direction with practical implementation.

Benefits

• Collaborative and fast-paced team environment focused on solving significant platform challenges.
• Opportunities for technical growth and direct contributions to platform strategy.
• Relocation package available, including support for visa sponsorship for candidates who need it.

This role offers a hybrid working pattern, allowing flexibility while fostering collaboration among team members. Arm is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is an equal opportunity employer.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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