Senior Architect | Higher Education

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.
• Led 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-time feedback and live markups and reinforces growth through documented development goals and performance input.
• Creates and reinforces reusable learning assets that measurably improve others’ quality, independence, while reducing repeat errors over time.
• Ensures team compliance with BHDP delivery platforms and digital standards (Revit template discipline, model/sheet hygiene, and naming/issue protocols) and uses tools effectively (Bluebeam, issue/decision logs) to drive coordination, documentation clarity, and QA/QC closure.
• Prevents workflow and tool breakdowns from creating rework, coordination drift, milestone delays, or client-facing surprises.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Architecture degree (NAAB accredited program preferred)
• 12+ years in the design and/or architecture industry
• Licensed Architect
• Advanced Revit knowledge – independently deliver defined drawing packages/projects and teach others on best practice
• Advanced knowledge of production-ready visualization capabilities (SketchUp, Enscape, Lumion)
• Demonstrated capability to delegate, coach, and raise team performance
• Demonstrated initiative; sees challenges as opportunities
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration within a team
• Models professional workplace behaviors: reliable follow-through, constructive feedback, and calm, solutions-oriented communication with co-workers and clients