Senior Architect - Data Center

Location: Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines

Department: Architecture

Work Location: hybrid

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Senior Architect is responsible for managing technical aspects of larger and/or more complex tasks or components of projects, meeting financial, quality, timeframe and health and safety objectives. He/she will manage the delivery of elements of larger projects in accordance with Arcadis management systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets. Assigned to provide a controlling technical role on medium size and/or moderately complex tasks in single discipline. Coordinate and manage teams of single (own) discipline designers and technicians. Task Management Role in line with Arcadis Task Manager Academy competence requirements and work to ensure maximum internal stakeholder satisfaction, championing care and proactively working with internal stakeholders. 

Role accountabilities:

• Perform role in accordance with Arcadis behavioral framework.
• Review and quality assure the work of other staff prior to delivery to ensure it meets the requirements of the client’s brief.
• Develop and propose potential solutions to meet or exceed client expectations. Guide the project team through the creative decision-making process and provide alternative solutions if there are changes to project parameters.
• Oversee an agreed scope of work and the operational workload of a project team, ensuring work is allocated appropriately and resources are fully utilized.
• Work collaboratively with other sectors/disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution and to resolve complex technical issues.
• Identify opportunities for Arcadis process improvements that improve quality and/or improve efficiency.
• Lead and provide direction and technical advice to team members, to support them in their delivery on the project and in their professional development.
• Develop effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and ensure effective communication of progress, changes and resolution of issues
• Develop and review budgets for GEC scope elements of a project.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Registered Architect with demonstrable experience on wide range of complex projects at different stages.
• Proficient in Design, Autocad, Sketchup, Revit, Adobe Suite, Lumion, Enscape.
• Minimum 10 years experience architecture design works.
• Experience in data-center projects is strongly preferred.
• Knowledgeable in Navisworks and clash detection is an advantage.
• You understand the design process and ability to deliver this from concept into detail design and understand how to identify and design key details, and onto to project completion.
• Understanding detail for compliance requirements e.g., building regulations and working knowledge of Region’s Building Systems, Regulations and construction types will be required for this role.
• Highly computer literate, skilled in Revit, AutoCAD and SketchUp, Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite applications
• You have excellent presentational and communicational skills both verbally to liaise with other disciplines/ team members, but also visually using software or hand drawing skills.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.

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