Senior Architect

Role Overview

Senior Architect at AtkinsRéalis. This role oversees the full spectrum of architecture design for different asset types. The Senior Architect serves as a capable professional in an architectural design team, leading work on specific elements of projects with minimal direction and supervision.

Company Overview

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together with industry partners, clients, and a global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Role Purpose

To manage and deliver comprehensive architectural design across diverse asset types and project typologies, leading multidisciplinary teams from concept through detailed design and construction phases while ensuring compliance with international standards, design excellence, and strategic project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Scope & Schedule Management

• Manage scope and schedule, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
• Prepare and track relevant Capex documentation.

Design Compliance & Standards

• Ensure compliance with project requirements and design standards.
• Ensure Design and Asset Brief compliance, maintaining accuracy and completeness.
• Monitor technical compliance throughout design and construction phases.
• Provide strategic guidance on technical design standards and philosophy.

Design Strategy & Delivery

• Manage the design process creatively, emphasizing aesthetic excellence.
• Deliver architectural designs for diverse typologies: residential, mixed-use, commercial, public, healthcare, educational, civic, and cultural.
• Support integration of design packages across disciplines.
• Collaborate with Design Group, Delivery team, and Project team on design delivery from concept to completion.
• Supervise production from visualization through pre-concept, concept, developed, and detailed design stages.

Safety & Sustainability

• Champion Safety in Design principles and implementation.
• Ensure familiarity with Statutory Authorities requirements and Sustainable Design principles.

Documentation & Materials

• Prepare, develop, and edit drawings and presentations effectively.
• Draft comprehensive architectural documentation from concept through detailed design.
• Develop and review architectural asset briefs, manuals, and standard design documents.
• Oversee preparation of materials schedules, sample boards, FF&E schedules, sourcing, and mock-ups.

Design Review & Quality Assurance

• Lead qualitative architectural design reviews, offering analysis, comments, and recommendations to Executive Management.
• Conduct design reviews and recommend solutions aligned with business goals and global standards.
• Solve design issues creatively while adhering to budget and design approach.

Team Leadership & Governance

• Oversee and manage Architects, Designers, Managers, and Professionals within the department.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams in delivering complex, high-profile projects.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and large-scale projects.
• Build consensus among team members to ensure the best contributions.

Stakeholder Management

• Deliver Architecture mandate as part of the Senior Management team, including stakeholder engagement.
• Communicate and coordinate with consultants, contractors, and NEOM departments.

Qualifications & Experience

• 22 years of architectural design and management experience post-undergraduate.
• B.Arch or B.Sc. in Architecture from a recognized university.
• Postgraduate degree in Architecture or Urban Design.
• International accreditations (RIBA, AIA, or equivalent).
• Proven expertise in managing international design consultants across sectors and typologies.
• Experience in residential, commercial, public, healthcare, and educational designs.
• Construction experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated success in large, complex programs with a focus on quality and innovation.
• Sustainability certifications (LEED, PQP, or equivalent) are highly desirable.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent conceptual and aesthetic design skills.
• Expertise in architectural and urban design to create holistic built environments.
• Fluent in English, with strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Proficient in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, and Adobe Suite; Grasshopper and V-Ray are a plus.
• Understanding of financial and commercial project management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of risk management, scope definition, and scope interfaces.
• Full knowledge of international standards, policies, codes, and procedures.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines and budgets.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a flexible, collaborative attitude.

Additional Information

Contract & Employment

• Employee
• Regular position

Benefits

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation and housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Commitment to Diversity

AtkinsRéalis seeks to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.