Senior Architect

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Due to expanding workload, AECOM are recruiting for Infrastructure, Residential & Commercial architect in the UK. AECOM are offering a great opportunity to join our rapidly growing architecture team in our multi-disciplinary offices in London, Aldgate. AECOM Architecture and Interiors is active in the following UK sectors: Infrastructure, Residential, Sports, Education, Healthcare, Rail, Defence, Government, Logistics, Industrial and Data Centres.

You’ll be working closely with the multi-disciplinary design teams, clients, and contractors. Excellent communication skills and a friendly outlook are essential.

About Our Team:

AECOM’s design team in London is a dynamic multi-disciplinary collaborative team with divisions working across sports, healthcare, workplace, interiors, masterplanning, landscape and infrastructure work for major government departments. We work closely with our engineers and in-house specialists. Our large-scale complex projects will be of interest for architects who thrive in a challenging and dynamic environment.

 Project/Design Responsibilities

• Contribute, from the onset of a project to the design of innovative and progressive design solutions that reconcile the client’s goals and priorities while fostering opportunities for design excellence.
• To perform and/or direct material and building system research and participate in the coordination and preparation of project specifications.
• Ensuring CDM Safety in Design and Sustainability principles are applied throughout all design stages of a project.
• Be familiar with the Building Safety Act 2022 and the implications to the regulatory design of buildings and higher-risk buildings in England and Wales.

Managerial Responsibilities

• Enthusiastic, positive and energetic project lead architect ready to work within a dynamic, agile and flexible team.
• Organises own and technical staff to achieve set project deadlines.
• Ensures, directly and through subordinates, that projects are completed on time and meet all requirements of the Design Brief, Client requirements and AECOM’s quality systems.
• Responsible for the correctness, accuracy and complete multi-disciplinary coordination of the design documentation prepared by the assigned team.
• Ensures the quality of technical work produced by team meets AECOM’s Technical Excellence and quality standards.
• Applies advanced knowledge and experience to manage the day-to-day work of their team.
• Routinely interacts with managers, seniors and clients, contractors, local authority representatives and others expertise and negotiation skills to resolve critical issues.
• Responsible for key design input at early design phases and for general design execution during the course of the project.
• Promotes teamwork within a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive moral and instilling a creative culture within the practice.
• Make appropriate value judgements with respect to corrective work that supports the design concept and performance goals of the project.
• Manage interface between Design Team / Site Team ensuring proper design support is provided in a timely manner.
• Able to coordinate, plan, manage and monitor the project team’s compliance with the relevant regulatory requirements.
• Support Principals and/or Directors with operational responsibilities which includes development and implementing Technical Excellence initiatives, management of resources (HR), training initiatives (CPD).
• Support and develop their own team through guidance, coaching, mentoring and leadership.
• Ensures the latest software, AI and digital techniques are utilised to increase productivity and training opportunities for staff are made available.

Commercial Responsibilities

• Understands and implements design leadership and financial principles and able to work within project budgets which includes fees and designing to budget.
• Assist in initial assessment of potential new projects, proposals and competitions.
• Support Principals and/or Directors in the preparation of bids.
• Support senior staff with existing and prospective clients.
• Support marketing and business development initiatives.

• Fully Qualified and Registered Architect (ARB Registered).
• CPD records updated and available for review via RIBA or ARB platforms.
• Proven experience in working on major infrastructure, residential/mixed-use schemes.
• Ideally, you will live locally to the London Aldgate office or be willing to relocate/commute.
• Good REVIT, BIM and presentation skills are essential. Visualisation skills are beneficial.
• Good knowledge of CDE systems like Sharepoint, ACC, Projectwise, A-SITE, etc is essential.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant degree or professional qualification in Architecture.
• A clear work history and portfolio of professional development and learning in the infrastructure, residential housing/mixed use and commercial environments.
• Managerial and Project Lead experience is preferred.
• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team environment and/or consultancy is 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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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.