Senior Architect

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

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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:

This role is part of Arcadis’ Global Excellence Centre (GEC) and will join our 3,000+ talented individuals working in India, Romania, and Philippines, in partnership with Arcadis’ offices globally. The GEC brings key capabilities and capacity to support our clients seamlessly around the world. For those in GEC there are options to be dedicated to one country; developing deep knowledge and strong relationships, as well as opportunities to be part of teams working truly globally as a centre of excellence, offering diversity and variety. Arcadians are by nature, globally minded and culturally aware, and Arcadis strongly believes in flexibility which enables change over time as your career progresses. The GEC model is well embedded in Arcadis, and the strong relationships that exist between our global offices are truly unique.

We are seeking a Senior Architect to develop and lead the technical delivery of varying types of projects for Arcadis that involve resilience, water resource management, or components of projects, ensuring that financial, quality, timeframe, and health and safety objectives are consistently met. In this role, you will oversee the execution of significant elements within larger projects, aligning with Arcadis management systems to achieve time, quality, budget, and safety targets.

As a Senior Architect, you will take a leadership role in managing medium-sized and moderately complex tasks within a single discipline, coordinating and guiding teams of designers and technicians in your area of expertise. You will bring your technical expertise to bear in task management, meeting Arcadis Task Manager Academy competency standards, and driving excellence in stakeholder satisfaction by fostering proactive collaboration and championing client care.

Role accountabilities:

• Perform role in accordance with Arcadis behavioral framework.


• Review and quality assure the BIM models and drawings of other staff prior to delivery to ensure it meets the requirements of the Water Team.


• Follow BIM content standards and the of the developed procedures, to create 3D BIM models using Revit to a high level of accuracy.


• Develop, lead the production, and coordination of technical drawings (plans, sections, elevations and details) through all project phases—from Concept Design through to Construction Documentation


• 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.


• Interface with architects, engineers, our partners, and other consultants through clear communication and drawings. Interact with our partners to coordinate BIM modeling content and approaches, model exchanges, quality control, and delivery.


• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, with demonstrable experience on industrial complex projects, treatment plants, pumping stations and other related structures at different stages.


• Proficiency in Revit is mandatory.


• Proficient in AutoCAD, Enscape or TwinMontion, Bluebeam.


• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in architectural design works.


• Proficiency in the BIM environment is mandatory.


• Experience/knowledge working on the US market is a plus.  


• 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.


• You have excellent presentational and communicational skills both verbally to liaise with other disciplines/ team members.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's 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.