Senior Architect

You’ll be working closely within multi-disciplinary design teams, with clients and contractors. Experience in infrastructure design would be advantageous, though not a pre-requisite.

Our areas of design include: Surface Transport, Rail, Aviation, Education, Health Care, Science, and Logistics.

AECOM is listed as the 4th largest employer of architects worldwide in the World Architecture WA100 2025 survey, with over 1500 architects. We are currently expanding in the UK, so now is a great time to join our team and build your career for the future. We are at number 10 in the AJ100 list. AECOM employs around 7500 multi-disciplinary staff in the UK, and we offer architecturally led multi-disciplinary design services to our clients.

Project / Design Responsibilities

• Contribute, from the onset of a project, to the design of innovative and progressive solutions that reconcile client’s goals and priorities while fostering opportunities for design excellence.
• To perform and / or direct material and building system design and participate in the co-ordination and preparation of project specifications.
• Ensuring CDM Safety in Design principles are applied throughout all design stages of a project.

Managerial Responsibilities

• Organises own and others work to achieve set deadlines.
• Ensures, directly and through subordinates, that projects are completed on time and meet all requirements of the Design Brief and Client requirement documents.
• Responsible for the correctness, accuracy and multi-disciplinary coordination of the design documentation prepared by the assigned team.
• Ensures the quality of technical work produced by the team meets AECOM’s Technical Excellence standards.
• Applies knowledge and experience to manage the day-to-day work of practice teams.
• Interact with clients, contractors, local authority representatives and others using skills of persuasion and negotiation to resolve critical issues.
• Responsible for key design input at early design phases and for general design leadership during the course of the project.
• Promotes teamwork within a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive morale 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.
• For projects on site: Manage interface between Design Team / Site Team ensuring proper design support is provided in a timely manner.
• Support Associate Directors and / or Directors with operational responsibilities which includes development and implementing Technical Excellence initiatives, management of resources (HR), training initiatives (CPD).
• Engage with resource forecasting and management.
• Where requested, engage with business reporting activities.
• Support and develop staff through guidance, mentoring and leadership of their development.
• Ensure the latest software and digital techniques are utilised to increase productivity and identify where training opportunities for staff should be made available.

Commercial Responsibilities

• Understand and implement project management principles and be able to work within project budgets which includes fees and designing to budget.
• Assist in initial assessment of potential new projects and competitions.
• Support Associate Directors and / or Directors in the preparation of bids.
• Help build a network of professional relationships with existing and prospective clients.
• Support marketing and business development initiatives.

Specific Skills Required:

• Must be proficient in the team management of, and use of, CAD. We use a range of CAD software, and training can be given to get you up to speed on the specific software needed for projects we are working on, which utilise: Bentley Mircostation / Aecosim, AutoCAD & REVIT.
• In particular our approach to design utilises 3D modelling in REVIT for workflow, and direct ‘hands on’ experience and current working knowledge of REVIT is required.
• It would also be advantageous to have a working knowledge of parametric modelling software, Rhino/Grasshopper, Solidworks, etc, although not essential. (Training can also be provided).
• It would also be useful to have a working knowledge of Sketchup, Photoshop, InDesign, Powerpoint, Lumion and other presentation and render software. (Training can also be provided).
• Familiarity with working in Common Data Environments (CDE) like B360, ProjectWise, AutoDesk Docs, etc.
• Creative, practical, adaptable and enthusiastic.
• Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
• Ability to think in a methodical way to design, plan and organize parts of projects.
• English language proficient, holding good communication skills to present information in speech, drawings and reports.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.

You’ll be working closely within multi-disciplinary design teams, with clients and contractors. Experience in infrastructure design would be advantageous, though not a pre-requisite.

Our areas of design include: Surface Transport, Rail, Aviation, Education, Health Care, Science, and Logistics.

AECOM is listed as the 4th largest employer of architects worldwide in the World Architecture WA100 2025 survey, with over 1500 architects. We are currently expanding in the UK, so now is a great time to join our team and build your career for the future. We are at number 10 in the AJ100 list. AECOM employs around 7500 multi-disciplinary staff in the UK, and we offer architecturally led multi-disciplinary design services to our clients.

Project / Design Responsibilities

• Contribute, from the onset of a project, to the design of innovative and progressive solutions that reconcile client’s goals and priorities while fostering opportunities for design excellence.
• To perform and / or direct material and building system design and participate in the co-ordination and preparation of project specifications.
• Ensuring CDM Safety in Design principles are applied throughout all design stages of a project.

Managerial Responsibilities

• Organises own and others work to achieve set deadlines.
• Ensures, directly and through subordinates, that projects are completed on time and meet all requirements of the Design Brief and Client requirement documents.
• Responsible for the correctness, accuracy and multi-disciplinary coordination of the design documentation prepared by the assigned team.
• Ensures the quality of technical work produced by the team meets AECOM’s Technical Excellence standards.
• Applies knowledge and experience to manage the day-to-day work of practice teams.
• Interact with clients, contractors, local authority representatives and others using skills of persuasion and negotiation to resolve critical issues.
• Responsible for key design input at early design phases and for general design leadership during the course of the project.
• Promotes teamwork within a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive morale 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.
• For projects on site: Manage interface between Design Team / Site Team ensuring proper design support is provided in a timely manner.
• Support Associate Directors and / or Directors with operational responsibilities which includes development and implementing Technical Excellence initiatives, management of resources (HR), training initiatives (CPD).
• Engage with resource forecasting and management.
• Where requested, engage with business reporting activities.
• Support and develop staff through guidance, mentoring and leadership of their development.
• Ensure the latest software and digital techniques are utilised to increase productivity and identify where training opportunities for staff should be made available.

Commercial Responsibilities

• Understand and implement project management principles and be able to work within project budgets which includes fees and designing to budget.
• Assist in initial assessment of potential new projects and competitions.
• Support Associate Directors and / or Directors in the preparation of bids.
• Help build a network of professional relationships with existing and prospective clients.
• Support marketing and business development initiatives.

Specific Skills Required:

• Must be proficient in the team management of, and use of, CAD. We use a range of CAD software, and training can be given to get you up to speed on the specific software needed for projects we are working on, which utilise: Bentley Mircostation / Aecosim, AutoCAD & REVIT.
• In particular our approach to design utilises 3D modelling in REVIT for workflow, and direct ‘hands on’ experience and current working knowledge of REVIT is required.
• It would also be advantageous to have a working knowledge of parametric modelling software, Rhino/Grasshopper, Solidworks, etc, although not essential. (Training can also be provided).
• It would also be useful to have a working knowledge of Sketchup, Photoshop, InDesign, Powerpoint, Lumion and other presentation and render software. (Training can also be provided).
• Familiarity with working in Common Data Environments (CDE) like B360, ProjectWise, AutoDesk Docs, etc.
• Creative, practical, adaptable and enthusiastic.
• Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
• Ability to think in a methodical way to design, plan and organize parts of projects.
• English language proficient, holding good communication skills to present information in speech, drawings and reports.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.

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