Director of Architecture - Salt Lake City

Director Of Architecture

We're expanding our Architecture team in Salt Lake City! Michael Baker International is hiring a Director of Architecture to lead strategic growth for our local team and strengthen our national footprint. This leadership role will guide architectural resources across our multi-disciplinary practice and evolving market sectors, driving goals, values, and growth strategies.

As a champion of the seller-doer model, the Director will focus on business development in emerging private markets while supporting established sectors like Federal, Aviation, and Transit. The ideal candidate is a licensed Architect with proven success managing A/E programs and collaborative, cross-disciplinary teams. Strong communication and relationship-building skills—internally and externally—are essential.

Key priorities include:

• Leading project planning, quality management, and risk assessment
• Ensuring scope, schedule, and budget alignment
• Driving proposal development and marketing efforts
• Promoting creative design, technical excellence, and performance across global Architecture projects

Essential responsibilities:

• Bold leadership through performance management, accountability, flexibility around unexpected issues/challenges, conflict management, and empathy.
• Balance technical alignment with staff, projects, and clients. Coordinate throughout IDA leveraging the strength and diverse array of talents throughout our organization to effectively meet our client's needs.
• Ensure consistent use and application of operations management tools and facilitate weekly coordination meetings to facilitate effective resource planning, quality management, and project execution.
• Facilitate inter-office/inter-disciplinary collaboration, communication, and cooperation.
• Constructively critique individual and team efforts, towards continuous improvement.
• Champion staff development through coaching and mentoring
• Work with Operations Managers to ensure staff maintain certifications and current licensing and training requirements to meet government regulatory requirements.
• Actively identify and recruit industry talent for strategic growth.
• Encourage uniformly high design and production standards and monitors projects to ensure that quality and production standards are met for all design and contract documents.
• Foster a continuous learning culture by encouraging communication and the sharing of ideas and technical knowledge through mentoring, in-house presentations, case studies, and continuing education opportunities.
• Build rapport and establish positive relationships with existing and prospective clients to ensure client-focused performance.
• Actively participate with professional and community-focused organizations to grow relationships and introduce/educate potential clients towards the Architecture/Building Engineering Practice at Michael Baker International.

Additional key responsibilities:

• Establish and promote collective leadership presence within the Salt Lake City Office, reporting "in-person" to the physical office approximately three (3) days per week.
• This local leadership position provides oversight and direction for all our local IDA resources, as well as evolving Market Sectors; and encompasses establishing and implementing goals and objectives, developing and promoting IDA's values and strategic plans, and positioning for growth.
• Regularly attend local industry and client events representing the comprehensive capabilities of IDA to promote brand awareness.
• Collaborate office space needs with Infrastructure Office Executive.
• Serve as the main point of contact for IDA within the Salt Lake City Office.
• Organize IDA meetings, events, and team-building activities monthly.
• Foster a positive and inclusive office culture.
• Provide administrative support to senior leadership as needed.

Professional requirements:

• BS/BA Architecture;
  Bachelor of Architecture; or MS/MA Architecture. with active licensure as a Registered Architect (RA) in the State of Utah. NCARB Certification is required, given potential projects geography.
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) membership is highly preferred.
• LEED Accredited Professional BD+C is highly…