Senior Architect

Are you an experienced Senior Architect with residential sector experience, looking for your next challenge with a progressive and supportive employer committed to a triple bottom line:
People, Planet and Purpose?

We're offering an exciting opportunity for a talented senior architect to join our growing Birmingham team and play a key role in delivering high-quality residential projects across a range of scales and typologies.

Stride Treglown is an employee-owned architectural practice and certified B Corp.

Since 1953, we've been clear that great design requires a human approach, deep local knowledge, and specialist expertise- all backed by verified results. We're now one of the UK's largest architectural practices, with 300+ specialists in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, master planning, town planning, and graphic design.

Across 9 UK studios, we're embedded in the communities we live and work, bringing imagination and flair to every project- with the technical proficiency to deliver what we design.

We're great team players who strive for excellence and care how we achieve it. That's why we promote design that isn't driven by ego, but by purpose.

We are seeking an experienced, job-running Senior Architect with a proven track record in the design and delivery of residential projects to join our Birmingham studio. This role would suit someone with strong leadership skills who can successfully manage projects, build client relationships and support the development of junior team members.

Our residential sector continues to grow, with opportunities spanning build-to-rent, affordable housing, mixed-use developments, later living, regeneration and sustainable neighbourhoods. We are particularly interested in architects who are passionate about creating high-quality homes and thriving communities while responding to the challenges of sustainable design and net-zero carbon ambitions.

• Between 5 and 10 years' post-qualification experience, ideally gained within the residential sector.
• A passion for residential design and placemaking
• Experience designing and delivering residential projects from concept through to completion
• A desire to create thoughtful, sustainable and people-centred places
• Professional experience within a high-quality, design-focused practice
• Experience leading project teams and mentoring junior colleagues
• An interest in projects ranging from individual residential developments to large-scale master planned communities
• The ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively
• Excellent drawing, communication and presentation skills
• Strong relationship-building skills and a collaborative approach to working with clients, consultants and colleagues
• Managing client relationships is key to this role and will include
• Becoming involved at any stage of a project and contributing effectively with minimal briefing
• Leading multiple or complex projects from inception through to completion, ensuring delivery on time, within budget and to client satisfaction
• Leading client meetings, presentations and stakeholder engagement activities
• Taking the lead in briefing, concept design, planning submissions and detailed design development
• Managing and coordinating project teams, consultants and stakeholders
• Demonstrating a positive impact on team performance and collaboration across the practice
• Managing project fees and invoicing, with administrative support
• Supporting business development activities and contributing to winning new work
• Promoting the practice through networking, industry engagement and positive project outcomes

• Significant residential sector experience
• Strong working knowledge of Revit
• Qualified to RIBA Part 3 level (or…