Senior Architect

Overview

As an Associate Architect at AECOM, you contribute to multidisciplinary infrastructure design, guiding projects from concept through delivery. You work with clients, contractors, and design teams to create innovative solutions while maintaining safety, quality, and budget. You lead design coordination, mentor staff, and ensure the use of the latest digital tools to boost productivity. This role offers exposure to large-scale projects within a globally respected firm and a culture that values collaboration, inclusion, and impact.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work options
• comprehensive compensation and well-being programs
• access to industry-leading technology and thinking
• transformational work with big impact and work flexibility
• global firm with diversity and inclusion commitments
• Equal Opportunity Employer and Disability Confident involvement

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design of innovative, client-aligned solutions from project onset
• Direct design work and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to prepare project specifications
• Apply CDM Safety in Design principles across all design stages
• Organise own and team work to meet deadlines and design briefs
• Ensure accuracy and coordination of design documentation and high technical quality
• Lead design input in early phases and provide design leadership
• Foster teamwork and creative culture within the practice
• Manage interfaces between Design Team and Site Team, providing timely design support
• Support Associate Directors/Directors in Technical Excellence initiatives, resource management, and staff development
• Utilise latest software and digital techniques to increase productivity and identify training needs
• Assist in project budgeting, bid preparation, and client relationship building
• Support marketing and business development efforts
• Proficient in CAD with experience in Bentley MicroStation/Aecosim, AutoCAD, REVIT; 3D modelling in REVIT; knowledge of Rhino/Grasshopper, Solidworks; familiar with Sketchup, Photoshop, InDesign, PowerPoint, Lumion; experience with CDE tools like B360, ProjectWise, AutoDesk Docs

Key requirements

• Fully Qualified Architect (ARB Registered) with experience on large multi-disciplinary design projects, preferably infrastructure
• Willingness to work across various infrastructure design areas (Surface Transport, Rail, Aviation, Education, Health Care, Science, Logistics)
• Degree with Diploma or Masters preferred; UK Building Systems, Standards and Regulations knowledge
• IT literate; CAD software proficiency; Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to manage busy workloads and deadlines; clear work history and ongoing professional development
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Creative, practical and enthusiastic
• Attention to detail
• Methodical thinking and organizational ability
• Bentley Microstation / Aecosim
• AutoCAD
• REVIT (3D modelling)

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