Senior Design Architect

AECOM's Virginia Beach, Virginia office is seeking a Senior Design Architect.  From our vibrant multidisciplinary studio set in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we serve a strong network of clients locally, nationally, and internationally. Many of our team members enjoy the opportunity to invest their efforts in our local community as well as learn about and design for a variety of cultures and environments around the globe.  A future as part of AECOM’s Roanoke, Virginia team is an opportunity to grow your design career. 

You will work on, and should have some experience with, an interesting range of Higher Education, Healthcare, Science & Technology & Federal Government projects. Demonstrable design experience through awards, publications, and other industry recognition is desirable. The ability to travel is essential to this role. Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume and work samples. 

The job responsibilities for the position include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborates with the Design Director and other team members in developing design concepts
• Meet directly with the owner/client and analyze project goals
• Conceives and develops architectural concepts/solutions for those goals
• Generates design ideas and solutions and communicates effectively to the project team
• Designs in accordance with project schedules, budgets, applicable codes, and ordinances
• Initiate and create designs with responsibility for the preparation of presentation drawings, models, and narratives
• Directs the production of schematic, design development, and construction documents
• Manages design responsibilities on several concurrent projects
• Oversees the review of design documents for compliance with program and design concepts
• Directs and coordinates design consultants in all phases
• Develop integrated design solutions balancing the needs of all design disciplines related to overall building design
• Generates and supervises design presentations
• Participates in and/or leads client presentations and interviews
• Promotes firm and project goals of excellence in design, execution, and environmental responsibility
• Takes an active role in a local professional association and represents the firm at national events and outside associations
• Demonstrates understanding of project management process including scope, budgets, and schedule
• Stays current with evolving building technology and systems applicable to the design process
• Performs tasks in congruence with AECOM standards of excellence
• Leads, organizes, and directs project design team members
• Demonstrates architectural judgment in anticipating and solving complexities and determining program objectives and requirements
• Supports AECOM’s business development team in marketing to prospective owners/clients
• Works with Design Director and Architecture Studio Manager to build and maintain the design culture of the studio
• Coaches and mentors skills that support the development of future design talent
• Responsible for providing architectural guidance, calculations, analysis, studies, and recommendations for a specialized segment of the Architectural Discipline within the schedules and budget of an assigned project
• May manage various size groups of architects, designers, and/or specialists

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture. With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions. Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc., and many Fortune 500 companies.