Senior Associate, Architect (Secure Buildings) - Government & Civic
Location: Greater London, United Kingdom
Department: Architecture
Work Location: onsite
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:
The Defence & Security (D&S) sector within our Architecture and Urbanism team is expanding.
We are seeking a Senior Associate or Associate Principal Architect with expertise in secure facilities to help drive our next phase of growth.
This role will involve both client-side design assurance and contractor-side technical delivery, working across multi-disciplinary teams on complex, secure projects in the UK.
Role accountabilities:
- Lead the design and delivery of secure projects, acting as a subject matter expert within Arcadis.
- Utilise your existing network of defence sector clients and contacts to support growth with a focus on secure buildings, and/or forge new connections in the marketplace to support secure building growth.
- Support strategic growth of secure building design and delivery in the defence sector.
- Engage directly with clients in a technical advisory position, providing clear, strategic design leadership and communicating complex solutions effectively.
- Form, manage, and maintain client relationships.
- Support in the preparation of fee proposals, and tender submissions through authoring responses to technical questions
- Ensure compliance with all relevant security management protocols (Arcadis and client-specific).
- Mentor and develop team members, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and design excellence, including taking on line management responsibilities as team size grows.
Qualifications & Experience:
- RIBA Part 3 qualified and ARB registered.
- Demonstrable experience leading projects of a secure nature across all RIBA stages.
- Strong working knowledge of Building Regulations and defence sector-specific standards (e.g., NPSA, RIBA Security Overlay).
- NSV Clearance, with a preference for DV
- Proven leadership, organisational, and communication skills.
- A willingness to travel to client sites across the UK.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. NSV Clearance is required, with a preference for developed vetting (opens in a new window).
See the UK Government's vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
Open to UK nationals only.
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.
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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. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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