Director Engineering Solution Architecture

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader in Cambridge is seeking a Technical Leader to drive the design and delivery of high-performance engineering platforms. This role involves shaping strategic initiatives, leading technical teams, and mentoring architects. Ideal candidates have significant experience in HPC, cloud platforms, and software development practices. Join us to empower engineers worldwide with agile and innovative infrastructure solutions.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Supportive work environment

Mentorship opportunities

Qualifications

• Meaningful experience leading architecture and platform engineering at scale.
• Expertise in efficient High-Performance Computing and engineering processes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud hybrid platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmaps for systems supporting engineering platforms.
• Evaluate new technologies and introduce exemplary solutions.
• Design and integrate scalable, secure systems.

Skills

High-Performance Computing/Throughput Expertise

Software Development Practices

Architectural Leadership

System Observability

Cloud Platforms Knowledge

Job description

Job Overview

Join Arm’s Solution Architecture Team as a Technical Leader, where you'll drive the design, validation, and delivery of a high-performance and resilient global engineering platform. This leadership role is an opportunity to shape the strategic direction of our systems, lead technical initiatives across teams, and champion innovation that empowers thousands of hardware and software engineers worldwide.

As part of the Arm Engineering IT department, we provide the platforms used to orchestrate large-scale, complex engineering workflows. Our mission is to understand, improve, and evolve these systems using a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Systems Architecture.

This is an excellent opportunity to promote and expand your skills, challenge yourself, working with sophisticated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define roadmaps for systems supporting Arm’s engineering platforms. Align Arm's strategic goals with architectural decisions.
• Innovation & Research: Be curious, continuously evaluate new technologies, practices, patterns, and industry trends. Introduce exemplary solutions for visionary platform and operations.
• Architectural Ownership: Be responsible for the design and integration of scalable, secure, and high-performance systems. Lead all aspects of end-to-end lifecycle from conception to delivery.
• Multi-functional Partnership: Engage with senior engineering, product, and IT leaders to understand evolving needs, and craft infrastructure solutions that drive operational excellence.
• Mentorship & Team Development: Inspire and mentor a team of skilled architects. Nurture a culture of technology passion, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills and Experience

• Meaningful experience leading progressive architecture and platform engineering initiatives at scale in a senior or managerial role.
• Demonstrated expertise in efficient High-Performance Computing/Throughput (HPC/HTC), with a deep understanding of scheduling, tooling, licensing, data and engineering processes (ideally EDA) for compute-intensive workloads across diverse platforms.
• Advancing datacenter and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) hybrid platforms with autonomous composable infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and dynamically assembled via policy.
• Solid grounding in modern software development practices (SDLC, DevOps, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, code review, collaborative workflows, developer experience).
• A background with system observability (Dynatrace, Open Telemetry), SRE and security (e.g., TLS, OAuth, SPIFFE, zero-trust models), ensuring resilience, self-healing and compliance.

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Experience with data lakes and other data storage mechanisms utilising S3 (e.g. Artifactory, LakeFS, Databricks)
• Knowledge of enhancing engineering environments through insights driven automation, machine learning or artificial intelligence.

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.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [e-mail]. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

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.