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Principal Solution Architect

Job ID 2025-14143 Date posted 19/05/2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category IT
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Job Overview:

You will be part of a team to design, validate, test and help to build a complex infrastructure stack for a high-performance and resilient Arm’s global engineering platform. You will enjoy a challenge doing research, development and testing of complete systems to a high standard.

Working in the Solution Architecture Team, which is part of the Arm Engineering IT department, we are responsible for ensuring that we have a confirmed understanding of both our engineering infrastructure and the engineering workflows that run on top of it, by applying a mixture of Software, DevOps, Data Engineering, Data Analytics and Data Visualisation disciplines to a variety of complex engineering problems.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn and expand your skills working with a complex engineering platform!

Responsibilities:

  • Architect, build and lead system integration processes to meet the engineering's needs.
  • Evaluate any project constraints and devise alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering.
  • Analyse and find any impacts that technical changes may have on a business processes.
  • Empower development teams to increase their efficiency and productivity.
  • Perform continuous research on new technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives for the existing architectures.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Experience implementing complex data and compute solutions at scale.
  • infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform).
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as Java or Python.
  • Deep understanding of AWS or other cloud providers (e.g. GCP, Azure).
  • Strong understanding of key security technologies and protocols such as TLS, OAuth and SPIFFE.
  • Observability, alerting, metrics collection and visualisation (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace).

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

We would be even more impressed if you are passionate about the following:

  • Cluster processes performance tuning and optimisation.
  • Migrating on-premises services to the cloud and running hybrids.
  • Container orchestration deployment, configuration, and administration. (e.g. Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
  • Automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
  • Analytics infrastructure and tooling (e.g. Databricks, Apache Spark).
  • Technical leadership, championing standard methodologies, and leading technical product transformations.

In Return:

We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy the ordinary and shape the extraordinary.

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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.

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