Senior Technical Architect

Company Description

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Technical Architect to be based in Chicago, IL.

About AECOM:

AECOM is a globally recognized architecture and engineering design firm. This global presence allows our creative designers to have a positive impact on millions of lives located around the globe. Our practice is centered around people and the way that they interact and experience our designs and the built environment.  By leveraging the design thought process our multi-disciplinary teams develop solutions that solve client and global challenges. Our projects have a direct positive impact on the spaces and policies that define the world we live in, ultimately creating a thoughtful, resilient and beautiful future.

This candidate will help AECOM deliver peer recognized design work while striving to incorporate our Environmental, Social, and Governance goals on each project.

About Buildings + Places:

Our Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy +, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management. This team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create. Our Chicago studio focuses on the Commercial/Corporate, Science and Technology, Transit/Rail, Aviation and Federal market sectors. We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.

Job Summary/Responsibilities:

AECOM is seeking a high-caliber, dynamic Senior Technical Architect to serve as the Technical Lead for the growing Chicago architecture studio. The successful candidate will be part of AECOM’s Building + Places Leadership team to help win, design and lead teams of architects on projects across a set of market sectors.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Provide a design-driven technical and management leadership approach to the architecture team.
• Build strong relationships and interactions with clients, teaming partners, and stakeholders
• Develop and oversee architectural drawings (plans, elevations, sections, details, etc.) and specifications
• Direct document production in accordance with identified project specific checklists, AECOM standards, and QA/QC standard program
• Anticipate and develop solutions to technical and design problems following established standards
• Work with Project Managers to define scope from initial project information and overseeing preparation of associated fee proposals, schedules, work plans and additional service requests as required.
• Supervise, recruit, mentor and promote staff in all stages of employee success.
• Promote firm and project goals of excellence in design, execution, and sustainability
• Ability to work collaboratively with teams across multiple AECOM offices
• Becoming actively involved in organizations at the leadership level

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture or a related field + 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education. 
• Licensed as a Registered Architect 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s Degree. 
• 10+ years of relevant experience. 
• Self-motivated with proven leadership skills. 
• Detail oriented, thorough, well-organized and have strong time-management skills. 
• Advanced knowledge of the architectural planning and design process, construction documentation, construction administration and code requirements 
• Proven record of maintaining client relationships. 
• Experience manag