Principal Architect

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Join AECOM’s leading Architecture Studio and play a pivotal role in shaping world-class industrial, nuclear, and defence projects. As a Principal Architect, you’ll provide design leadership, technical excellence, and strategic guidance across complex multidisciplinary projects within one of the UK’s top architecture teams.

About the Role

You’ll lead architectural design and delivery across all project stages — from concept to completion — ensuring creative, technical, and operational excellence. Working closely with clients and internal teams, you’ll set design direction, manage resources, and drive innovation in line with AECOM’s global standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the architectural design and delivery of medium to large-scale industrial and defence projects.

• Provide high-level architectural guidance, design direction, and technical expertise.

• Manage multidisciplinary design teams and mentor architects, designers, and technicians.

• Ensure projects meet quality, budget, and schedule requirements.

• Champion BIM and digital design integration across all project stages.

• Collaborate with project directors, engineers, and clients to achieve exceptional design and performance outcomes.

About You

• Extensive experience in industrial architecture, ideally within nuclear or defence sectors and be able to obtain SC Clearance having been in the UK for a minimum of 5 years consecutively

• Expert user of Revit with a strong understanding of BIM workflows.

• Proven ability to lead and deliver projects across all RIBA stages.

• Strong technical, communication, and leadership skills.

• Chartered Architect (ARB/RIBA) preferred.

• Collaborative, strategic, and passionate about design quality and innovation.

• Expert user of Revit with a strong understanding of BIM workflows.

• Proven ability to lead and deliver projects across all RIBA stages.

• Strong technical, communication, and leadership skills.

• Chartered Architect (ARB/RIBA) preferred.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.