Senior Architect

About the role

The Senior Architect is a senior technical leader who elevates project outcomes through disciplined coordination and clear documentation. Building on the Architect III role, this position takes broader responsibility for technical delivery on more complex efforts—driving consistency across teams and projects, proactively identifying and resolving risk, and ensuring design intent translates into buildable, well-coordinated solutions that meet client goals. The Senior Architect also supports strong team performance by providing guidance, setting clear expectations for quality and completion, and mentoring others as needed—while remaining primarily focused on technical excellence, coordination, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provides project-specific technical leadership by setting clear expectations, assigning ownership, and driving follow-through on high-risk decisions and deliverables.
• Serves as the primary project technical expert and risk steward, ensuring decisions are documented and implemented consistently with BHDP standards, while supporting the PM with client-ready guidance on risks, options, and impacts.
• Leads and enforces QA/QC at key milestones by setting clear team expectations and ensuring critical comments are resolved before issuance.
• Assigns owners and due dates, drives follow-through to verified closure, and drives root-cause correction and project delivery standards reinforcement—serving as a trusted advisor by communicating key risks, options, and impacts to the Project Manager and client.
• Delivers high-quality technical solutions efficiently on assigned projects by standardizing repeatable approaches and focusing effort on high-risk interfaces.
• Reduces redesign/rework and protects fee and schedule through coordination, clear documentation, disciplined decision-making, and early issue resolution—preventing late-stage changes and supporting predictable client delivery.
• Develops Architects and Designers on assigned projects through coaching that teaches the “why” via real