Senior Design Manager - Architecture (Q-RB)

Role Overview

Senior Design Manager – Architecture at JASARA PMC. The role oversees consultant-led architectural design across all project stages, ensuring compliance with QIC requirements, approved design briefs, Scopes of Work, and applicable technical standards.

Role Purpose

Provide design governance and multidisciplinary coordination to ensure architectural intent is maintained and appropriately integrated with structural, MEP, landscape, and other specialist consultant inputs, delivering a coordinated, compliant, and construction-ready design. The role does not undertake design production; it reviews, guides, and assures the quality, coordination, and deliverability of consultant design outputs while supporting the Design Director in design leadership, technical assurance, cost alignment, and execution readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Design Oversight & Coordination

• Oversee, coordinate, and monitor all architectural design activities across all project stages.
• Align all design disciplines (structural, MEP, landscape, infrastructure) to ensure full integration with the architectural vision.
• Act as the primary design interface across disciplines, ensuring all trades are coordinated, conflicts are resolved early, and design outputs are fully integrated and aligned.

Design Governance & Quality Assurance

• Implement and enforce design governance processes, including design input control, change management, structured design reviews, and multidisciplinary coordination reviews.
• Review architectural and multidisciplinary submissions, drawings, and detailed design packages for completeness, coordination, and minimized rework and clashes.
• Monitor consultant performance across disciplines, ensuring deliverables are coordinated, compliant, and aligned with project objectives.

Consultant & Stakeholder Management

• Manage engagement with architectural and multidisciplinary consultants, ensuring compliance with QIC design briefs, SOWs, guidelines, and technical standards.
• Review technical aspects of consultant procurement submissions across all disciplines and contribute to tender evaluations.
• Support Commercial in managing design contracts.

Programme & Coordination Support

• Support the overall design programme by chairing coordination meetings, tracking actions across all disciplines, and proactively resolving interface issues.
• Support Development in preparing and refining design briefs, SOWs, and guidelines, ensuring all disciplines are clearly defined and aligned from early stages.

Cost & Value Management

• Work closely with Development and Commercial teams to ensure design solutions across all trades align with approved budgets and value targets.
• Contribute to cost planning and value engineering exercises.

Buildability & Construction Readiness

• Apply strong execution and construction knowledge to assess buildability, sequencing, and coordination across all disciplines.
• Ensure that detailed design packages are practical and ready for construction.

Qualifications & Experience

• Master's degree in Architecture or related field.
• Minimum 15 years' experience in architectural design management.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams.

Skills & Competencies

• Proficiency in design software such as Revit, AutoCAD, and Adobe Suite.
• Deep understanding of sustainable design practices and codes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver within tight deadlines.