Architect - Healthcare

Your Role

As an Architect with Gensler’s Healthcare practice in Florida, you will help shape some of the most complex and impactful healthcare environments in the region. Based in our Tampa or Miami office, you will bring together design excellence, technical rigor, and strategic thinking to deliver architecture that is both deeply functional and experientially rich. You will work within a highly collaborative, client-focused culture that values design quality, resilience, and social purpose.

What You Will Do

• Direct the production of drawings, specifications, and construction administration activities
• Ensure project documentation clearly communicates design intent while meeting the highest technical standards
• Resolve complex technical and design challenges to deliver innovative, constructible, and high-quality solutions
• Contribute to the development, coordination, and oversight of project manuals and specifications
• Collaborate closely with project teams, clients, vendors, contractors, and consultants across a wide range of healthcare projects, including hospitals, medical office buildings, outpatient clinics, surgery centers, and community health facilities
• Manage AHCA (Agency for Health Care Administration) communication and stage approvals for Florida healthcare projects
• Conduct on-site observations and document site reviews during construction
• Review submittals, substitution requests, and respond to RFIs during construction
• Interface with building and permitting officials during the permitting and construction phases of the project
• Actively contribute to the financial performance and successful delivery of projects
• Support proposal development and contract review in collaboration with the Project Manager
• Build, maintain, and strengthen productive, long-term client relationships
• Mentor, collaborate with, and support team members across experience levels
• Engage in office-wide initiatives, learning programs, and practice-building efforts

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture from an accredited institution
• 6-10 years of related experience on healthcare projects, from feasibility studies, pre-design, space programming, master planning to schematic design, design development and construction documents
• Experience working within AHCA to deliver projects in the state of Florida is preferred
• Manage AHCA communication and stage approvals
• Knowledge of building systems, codes, and structures
• Proficiency in Revit is required
• LEED AP (or in process) preferred
• Experience delivering high-performance, resilient healthcare buildings preferred
• Demonstrated commitment to sustainability and sustainable design practices
• Adaptable, curious, and comfortable thriving in a fast-paced environment
• Highly collaborative, team-oriented, and client-focused
• Registered / Licensed Architect (if you are on the path to licensure, please contact nicole_kumar@gensler.com to determine whether there are other roles that may be of interest)