Senior Project Architect

Who We Are

JCJ Architecture is a full‑service planning, architectural and interior design firm working with public and private sector clients nationwide. JCJ has offices in Boston, Hartford, Las Vegas, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, and Tulsa. With more than 85 years of practice and a reputation for stability and sound business practices, JCJ has consistently been ranked in ENR’s top 500 design and top 100 Green Building firms.

At JCJ Architecture, we see design as a collaborative process and work to balance owner/client goals, functional objectives and physical context alongside project scope, constraints and opportunities. Across the practice, our employee‑owners work to create places that strengthen communities, businesses and institutions and to design environments that help organizations and individuals thrive.

The firm’s portfolio of experience, comprehensive services and collective knowledge are captured in two overall categories – commercial project types and institutional project types.

• 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) (Company‑funded retirement plan)
• Exciting & rewarding work
• Highly competitive benefits
• Pay for Performance Philosophy
• Career development & mentorship opportunities
• Incentive Compensation Program
• Hybrid work model
• J.E.D.I mission
• Employee social events
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee discounts
• Employee Referral Program
• Educational assistance

Senior Project Architect

Senior Project Architect provides daily leadership and mentoring to the project team on all aspects of the project, both design and technical, as the project moves through various phases. The role develops designs and documents from schematic through construction phase in accordance with JCJ and industry standards, usually in the role of Document Team Leader.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assumes some project‑management responsibilities for assigned projects inclusive of client and consultant meetings and communications.
• Coordinates a project from initial design through construction administration.
• Develops project documentation requirements as a result of research, discussions with Project Manager, PIC, Lead Designer and client interviews.
• Develops solutions to client architectural requirements, needs and complexities.
• Collaborates with the design team to develop the overall project design to address the client’s needs inclusive of budget, schedule and vision. Provides technical knowledge and insight on possible material and design choices that may be beneficial in design or cost to overall project.
• Oversees the assembly of necessary technical documentation (drawings and specifications), in accordance with JCJ standards, for all project phases.
• Oversees the compilation of the project product manual which records design decisions.
• As part of a project team, leads a team of technical staff to develop project technical documentation requirements and solutions for assigned projects.
• Interfaces with consultants to complete the coordination of the documentation phases of the project in a timely manner. Coordinates structural, electrical and mechanical drawings and specifications with architectural drawings and specs. Meets with engineers as necessary and articulates the integration of the architecture and the engineering with the full A/E team, including specifications group.
• Prepares code analysis for assigned projects, reviews documents for compliance with all applicable Federal, State and Local laws, ordinances, regulations, statutory and documentation requirements.
• Performs construction administration tasks including shop drawing review, responses to RFIs, site visits and document modifications, as required, on assigned projects.

• Responsible for setting project documentation requirements.
• Define and describe document set to Project Team leaders in an appropriate manner to facilitate development of milestone schedule for contract documents.
• Responsible to complete code analysis and verify compliance of documents.
• Responsible to meet documentation budget.
• Develop work plan for document team and delegate work between assigned staff.
• Monitor…