Parsons
Senior Architect
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted 2 days ago
- Salary
- AED 12k–18k a month· est.
- Job type
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Field
- Construction & Engineering
- Work mode
- On site
About the role
In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description: Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Architect to join our team! In this role you will get to provide support to design management, coordination, and technical leadershipone. What You'll Be Doing: - Support the Senior Management and Senior Design Manager in the day-to-day management, coordination, and assurance of design delivery across all project stages. - Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to ensure compliant, integrated, and high-quality design outputs. - Review and monitor design submissions for quality, completeness, coordination, and alignment with project requirements prior to approvals. - Support the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability issues, and cross-disciplinary coordination matters. - Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, approval workflows, and technical records to support effective governance and reporting. - Apply standardized design management templates, tools, methodologies, and reporting procedures across assigned projects and monitor design progress against agreed milestones, schedules, and stage gate deliverables. - Coordinate interfaces between disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure integrated outcomes. - Identify, track, and support mitigation of design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. - Liaise with internal stakeholders, consultants, support functions, and project teams to support timely reviews, approvals, and decision-making. - Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent communication of design information across all stakeholders. What Required Skills You'll Bring: - Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, or related discipline. - Minimum 8 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles. - Experience working with multi-design consultants. - Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements. - Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder coordination skills. - Strong organizational, planning, and interpersonal skills. - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate concurrent activities, and meet project deadlines. What Desired Skills You'll Bring: - Professional registration as an Architect. - Knowledge of international architectural standards and best practices. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information. We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY! Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, or related discipline. Minimum 8 years’ experience in design coordination or design management roles. Experience working with multi-design consultants. Good understanding of design development stages and coordination requirements. Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder coordination skills. Strong organizational, planning, and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate concurrent activities, and meet project deadlines. Professional registration as an Architect (desired). Knowledge of international architectural standards and best practices (desired).
Responsibilities
Support the Senior Management and Senior Design Manager in the day-to-day management, coordination, and assurance of design delivery across all project stages. Coordinate design consultants and technical teams to ensure compliant, integrated, and high-quality design outputs. Review and monitor design submissions for quality, completeness, coordination, and alignment with project requirements prior to approvals. Support the resolution of design clashes, technical queries, constructability issues, and cross-disciplinary coordination matters. Maintain design trackers, action logs, registers, approval workflows, and technical records to support effective governance and reporting. Apply standardized design management templates, tools, methodologies, and reporting procedures across assigned projects and monitor design progress against agreed milestones, schedules, and stage gate deliverables. Coordinate interfaces between disciplines, infrastructure systems, assets, consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure integrated outcomes. Identify, track, and support mitigation of design-related risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. Liaise with internal stakeholders, consultants, support functions, and project teams to support timely reviews, approvals, and decision-making. Ensure accurate, timely, and consistent communication of design information across all stakeholders.
Skills
- Design coordination
- Design management
- Coordination of multi-design consultants
- Design development stages
- Project governance and reporting
- Interface coordination between disciplines
- Stakeholder coordination
- Risk identification and mitigation
- Technical design review
- Construction document coordination
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