Principal Solution Architect

Principal Solution Architect Overview

Arm is hiring a Principal Solution Architect within its Productivity Engineering organisation in Cambridge. The role sits in a team that supports Arm’s worldwide engineering community by providing high-performance infrastructure, engineering platforms, software workflows, and data-led services. The main focus of the position is platform integration, data strategy, and solution architecture, with responsibility for defining how engineering tools, APIs, workflows, and data capabilities fit together into secure, scalable, and dependable solutions that help engineers work more effectively across the company.

What you will do

• Set the future-state architecture for integrated engineering platforms and data solutions.
• Convert business priorities and engineering needs into solution designs that can be implemented successfully.
• Develop integration approaches, data standards, and reference architectures that can be reused across the platform landscape.
• Work in partnership with colleagues in engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and enterprise architecture to ensure technical alignment.
• Lead thinking on data strategy, including data ingestion, governance, quality, metadata management, and support for analytics use cases.
• Identify where capabilities are missing, where architectural risk exists, and where investment should be directed.
• Ensure the solutions designed are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and cost-efficient.

What Arm is looking for

• Extensive experience in one or more of the following roles: solution architect, platform architect, enterprise architect, or data architect.
• Experience creating integrated platform designs that combine cloud environments, on-premises systems, APIs, microservices, and data platforms.
• A strong grasp of platform engineering, software delivery, infrastructure services, and the developer experience.
• Practical experience in data strategy, data integration, analytics enablement, or data architecture.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and bring multiple teams into alignment across a global organisation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, plus the ability to balance strategic architectural direction with hands-on delivery needs.

Additional experience that would be useful

• Background 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.

What you can expect in return

You will join a collaborative, fast-moving team that tackles meaningful platform challenges. The role offers scope to grow your technical expertise, help shape platform strategy, and make a direct impact on the productivity of thousands of engineers across Arm. The salary range for this position is £126,200 to £170,800 per year.

Arm also provides a wider rewards and benefits package that includes support for health and wellbeing, work-life balance, financial recognition, and professional development. The company describes its approach as one that supports people both inside and outside work, and it promotes a culture of learning, support, and community.

Working arrangements

This role follows Arm’s hybrid working approach. The company aims to combine in-person collaboration with flexibility, and teams are given the freedom to agree working patterns that suit the work they do and their local circumstances. The exact arrangement for this role will be confirmed during the application process. Arm also notes that in some locations flexibility may be affected by legal, regulatory, tax, or other local requirements, and the company will work with candidates to find the best possible arrangement.

Visa and relocation support

Arm states that a relocation package is available for this role, and that this package includes visa sponsorship support for candidates who need it.

Recruitment support and adjustments

Arm is committed to making the hiring process accessible. Candidates who need an adjustment or accommodation during recruitment can contact the company by email. Examples of support mentioned include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, and help with office accessibility. Any information shared for this purpose will be handled confidentially and used only to arrange the appropriate support.

Equal opportunities

Arm says it is an equal opportunity employer and aims to provide a respectful environment where applicants and employees have equal access to opportunity. The company states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

Visa Sponsorship Promising