Senior Architect
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About the Role
Staff Connect UAE is seeking a Senior Architect for a senior owner-side role in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The position involves leading architectural design governance, master planning, and project development for large-scale projects.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the development, refinement, and implementation of the Owner’s Design Brief and master planning strategy
- Review and validate master planning deliverables including site zoning, land use planning, building layouts and envelopes, functional adjacencies, circulation planning, expansion provisions, and development phasing
- Ensure architectural solutions align with operational requirements, business objectives, and long term expansion plans
- Provide architectural leadership throughout the project lifecycle from concept stage to execution
- Act as the owner’s architectural representative in discussions with master planning consultants, architectural consultants, engineering consultants, contractors, and OEM representatives
- Review, challenge, and technically validate consultant design submissions
- Ensure consultant deliverables meet project requirements, quality standards, and timelines
- Monitor contractor compliance with approved architectural designs, specifications, and design intent
- Identify design deviations and execution risks and recommend corrective actions
- Coordinate with Senior Infrastructure Engineer to ensure alignment between building layouts, infrastructure systems, utility corridors, site circulation, and future expansion requirements
- Coordinate with project controls teams to provide design progress updates, risk assessments, consultant performance feedback, and decision support information
- Ensure multidisciplinary coordination between architecture, engineering, and execution teams
Requirements
- Extensive experience in architectural design governance and master planning for large scale development projects
- Ability to act as primary architectural interface between organization, consultants, contractors, OEM representatives, and internal stakeholders
- Experience in reviewing and validating master planning deliverables including site zoning, land use planning, building layouts, and circulation planning
- Strong skills in consultant and contractor management, including reviewing and technically validating design submissions
- Experience in design coordination and integration with infrastructure systems
- Proven ability to lead value engineering initiatives and design reviews
- Excellent documentation and reporting skills
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Job Summary
- The Senior Architect is a senior owner side role responsible for leading architectural design governance, master planning, and project development requirements for large scale development projects.
- The role ensures that business objectives, operational requirements, OEM requirements, expansion strategies, and cost efficiency goals are translated into a practical, coordinated, and executable master plan.
- The Senior Architect will act as the primary architectural interface between the organization, consultants, contractors, OEM representatives, and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities Master Planning & Design Governance
- Lead the development, refinement, and implementation of the Owner’s Design Brief and master planning strategy.
- Review and validate master planning deliverables including site zoning, land use planning, building layouts and envelopes, functional adjacencies, circulation planning, expansion provisions, and development phasing.
- Ensure architectural solutions align with operational requirements, business objectives, and long term expansion plans.
- Provide architectural leadership throughout the project lifecycle from concept stage to execution.
Key Responsibilities Consultant & Contractor Management
- Act as the owner’s architectural representative in discussions with master planning consultants, architectural consultants, engineering consultants, contractors, and OEM representatives.
- Review, challenge, and technically validate consultant design submissions.
- Ensure consultant deliverables meet project requirements, quality standards, and timelines.
- Monitor contractor compliance with approved architectural designs, specifications, and design intent.
- Identify design deviations and execution risks and recommend corrective actions.
Key Responsibilities Design Coordination & Integration
- Coordinate with the Senior Infrastructure Engineer to ensure alignment between building layouts, infrastructure systems, utility corridors, site circulation, and future expansion requirements.
- Coordinate with project controls teams to provide design progress updates, risk assessments, consultant performance feedback, and decision support information.
- Ensure multidisciplinary coordination between architecture, engineering, and execution teams.
Key Responsibilities Value Engineering & Project Optimization
- Lead design reviews to improve cost efficiency, constructability, functionality, project phasing, and long term operational efficiency.
- Support value engineering initiatives without compromising business and operational requirements.
- Review design alternatives and provide recommendations to leadership.
Key Responsibilities Documentation & Reporting
- Maintain structured records of design assumptions, design approvals, technical decisions, consultant submissions, review comments, and project requirements.
- Prepare technical reports and presentations for management review.
- Support project development activities and architectural assessments as required.
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