Senior Architectural Designer

Your Opportunity

We strive for design excellence and total integration among all design disciplines. Your role as senior building designer is to lead an integrated design team through project design process working closely with Project Manager or Project Architect under the direction of Principal in Charge. You will be the key design advocate to achieve the highest design quality possible for the projects, accountable to regional design leaders. You will be the design voice during all aspects of the project process from validation/pre-design through construction administration and close-out. Depending on the size of the projects, you may be asked to take on more than one project at a time.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Be the face representing Stantec’s design excellence.


• Inspires creativity, critical thought, and design excellence both internally and externally.


• Conceptualizes a building design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client’s requirements, budget, and program.


• Develops design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to express the design intent and communicate to project team, client, and building user groups.


• Knowledge of BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components to achieve design approval.


• Promote and follow the office’s Design Framework. Organize and participate in design critiques and constructability reviews.


• Presents the design to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops building design in accordance with cost parameters.


• Evaluates and selects building systems and materials.


• Coordinates building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.


• Implements sustainable design principles into the design and environment.


• Analyzes site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic, and contextual conditions.


• Participates in development of the program and other pre-design efforts.


• Ensures that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction. 

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• To engage in creative and critical thinking.


• To produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.


• To hand sketch and communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively.


• To participate in project team setting.


• To lead one or more teams through the development of design concept.


• To check work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.


• To interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material.


• To present abstract ideas to the client and client representatives.


• To apply accessibility codes, applicable building codes, and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity.


• To produce and deliver design and documentation in highly collaborative BIM strategy.


• General knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.


• Understanding of the relationship between drawings and specifications.


• Understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, Newforma

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or related field


• Minimum of 10 years of design experience in a consulting environment


• LEED Green Associate or LEED AP preferred.

Hybrid office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.  Field work may include exposure to active construction sites. 

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.