Senior Architect Job Description
Senior architect
provides support for update of facility AutoCAD files and Revit building information models (BIM) and other existing documents and databases.
Senior Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Development and origination of design concepts, analyze and resolve associated technical problems, code compliance, conduct feasibility studies, cost estimates and assist in both long range and short term strategic planning, and manpower planning
Establish a project team incorporating all associated aspects and areas of responsibilities required
Develop preliminary design concepts through drawings, specifications, renderings and models
Investigate alternatives and perform value engineering throughout design process
Develop detailed engineering, create bid packages, including finalized drawings, specifications, soil test data and/or other related information
Secure all permits, licensed, and approvals from external authorities and agencies as required
Secure firm quotations and review for compliance
Prepare the ECA for each project complete with all necessary information required to judge economic benefits of a particular project
Develop current to future state architecture road maps
Use appropriate design techniques and methodologies to translate project requirements into detailed designs, consistent with platform strategy and road map
Senior Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: LEED, AP, RRC, NCARB, RA, REVIT, TOGAF, III, IAM, AWS
Education for Senior Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Architecture, Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Technical, Design, Business, Communication, Information Technology, Construction
Skills for Senior Architect
Desired skills for senior architect include:
Java
JavaScript
Revit
Networking
Photoshop
Regulations and submission requirements
AutoCAD
Python
Building materials and construction details
Principles and practices to broad areas of assignments
Desired experience for senior architect includes:
Bachelor of Architecture Degree required
7+ years of professional experience, preferably with experience in Hospitality, Retail, or Showrooms
Must be a Licensed Architect, preferably in the state of Wisconsin and Illinois
Passion for design, client service, and collaboration
May require occasional travel, domestic and international, depending on projects
Maintain deep expertise in architectural modeling, frameworks, emerging technologies, and best practices
Senior Architect Examples
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Senior Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior architect
- Development, administration and support of middleware services like application servers (JBoss/Tomcat/Apache), messaging systems, datagrids, service bus integrations, caching & indexing systems
- Execution of and assist with quality control activities for all architectural and engineering elements on a project
- Operate across organizational groups to drive standardization of common approaches and best practices
- Work closely with our Architecture team to implement and maintain core product features
- Build and manage tooling for Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Good understanding and experience working with Enterprise Architecture and different Cloud providers in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS domains, and strong understanding of the Cloud technology market, players, their offerings and trade-offs
- Possesses the ability to communicate technical concepts/solutions to internal and external customers
- Develops and updates the solution architecture
- Setup and maintain lab equipment image and video test suites to perform subjective and objective quality evaluations
- Supporting pre-sales and ‘pitch’ activity by providing technical and solution expertise
Qualifications for senior architect
- Technical knowledge in data centre virualization, server technologies (hardware and OS) and storage technologies (SANs and SDS)
- Candidates must have the background to provide leadership in the practice
- Ideally, high-volume applications and front end tuning experience
- Must possess an excellent understanding of architecture best practices
- Hands-on experience with JSON and RESTful Web-services
- Experience leading design reviews and architecture discussions
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Senior Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a senior architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior architect
- Defines and addresses risks/problems/issues quickly and effectively
- Lead and advise scrum teams, prioritizing their work, providing mentorship and guidance on technical decisions, and ensuring alignment of teams to strategic goals
- Translates business requirements into system requirements
- Participates in creating strategies for Analytic Model development, Model execution, and leverage appropriate data platforms
- Works with and across various business teams to design and implement data solutions in alignment with the project schedule
- Oversees code development including code reviews for new or modified data systems to ensure robust, efficient and scalable applications for data analytics
- Works with developers to make sure that all data solutions are consistent with the aligned architecture
- Expands and grows data and scoring platform capabilities to solve new problems and challenges
- Creates architectural diagrams for all related analytics business systems
- Work together with the QA lead to create regression automation strategy and incorporate it into the development process
Qualifications for senior architect
- The successful candidate will need to demonstrate experience in the role of a Technical Design Authority (TDA) on a major infrastructure transformation
- Experienced in financial modeling
- Master-level knowledge in programming language(s)
- Excellent problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues
- 10+ years of related experience with Architectural or A/E firm
- 10+ years of related experience including 2 + years doing contract field administration for architectural projects in New York City
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a senior architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior architect
- Create strategies and designs for migrating application to cloud systems
- Develop complex business process architectures, process relationship maps, functional relationship maps, cross-functional maps and work flow diagrams
- Responsible for conception of solutions and the selling and execution of such solutions
- Design and create cloud native designs , including Cloud Formation and Terraform type scripting
- Implement best practices relating to design for architecture design and solution designs
- Coordinates with the groups of business unit who test, validate, evaluate new applications and functions, and determine and resolve issues
- Diverse knowledge of architecture principles and practices, uses advanced techniques, and has responsibility over finished plans, specifications, and material approval
- Coordinates with consultants and subcontractors as needed
- Interprets design
- Works in partnership with the design team to create a set design and technical documents
Qualifications for senior architect
- Exhibits leadership traits and has experience leading a design team with successful outcomes
- Work efficiently and effectively within a team environment
- Advanced Rendering/Modelling experience (Sketch-up, Rhino)
- Good sense of proportion, colour & texture
- Experience in lending, mortgage or wealth management domains is a big plus
- Expert knowledge of datacenter standards ASHRAE, SSAE-16, OIX, PCI
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior architect
- Work with Engineering to introduce new features to improve the quality of service
- Responsible for overall technical leadership of the design and detailing of architectural design solutions developed by project architects
- Responsible for the technical design of Pharmaceutical and Biotech building envelopes
- Capable of developing, presenting and coordinating construction details and design solutions based on current industry trends and standards
- Ability to work closely with structural engineers to develop design solutions
- Responsible for developing building code analysis and reviews to determine building conformance to currents codes and standards
- Ability to coordinate effectively with architectural design team and construction management team to achieve positive results
- Assist in the development of architectural specifications as necessary
- Ability to conduct onsite construction observation to ensure compliance with detail design documents
- Will evaluate design and specification
Qualifications for senior architect
- Experience of working in a methodical and structured manner
- Registered Architect in the state of Colorado
- Registered Architect in the state of Texas
- Understand the asset landscape within the area that you support – you will identify gaps and potential fragilities and support the development of appropriate solutions
- Ability to convey complex information across multiple audiences, including senior and external partners
- Collaborative, generous and empathetic
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a senior architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior architect
- Review A/E contractor design drawings, specifications, and calculation submittals
- Coordinate Architectural/Engineering activities with those of other disciplines and project management team within the engineering department and Client as and where necessary
- Prepares proposals for design work including sketches and cost estimates for labor, equipment, and materials
- Organizing and planning projects and preparing hours estimates
- Design, document, and execute multiple simultaneous high quality projects, by collaborating with all internal and external teams
- Lead the creation of a conceptual framework for the project
- Design, coordinate, and document custom spaces and elements when needed
- Communicate regularly to management and the project team with project updates, for example, of the status of each project, potential issues on site
- Make critical path decisions to ensure the overall success of the project, including being on time, on budget, and to an exceptional level of quality
- Provide project and staff related insights to the leadership and management groups to support workflow and design efficiency improvements
Qualifications for senior architect
- Hands-on experience with Enterprise scale Niagara application development
- Ability to develop solution architecture and detailed system design for large
- Proven production experience with MTA NYCT station rehabilitation
- Experience on large complex transportation projects
- 3-5 years’ experience in SoftwareAG webMethods and JEE development
- Programming experience within UNIX/Linux (eg