Senior Architect

Are you a Senior Architect looking for your next challenge with a progressive and supportive employer with a triple bottom line? (People, Planet, and Purpose).

We have an excellent opportunity for someone eager to join our Birmingham team.

A bit about us

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, masterplanning, 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.

About you

This is a fantastic opportunity to use your design skills on a variety of exciting projects within a diverse and growing team, working with senior designers and technical team members to deliver your designs and progress your skills and career.

You will have

• A desire to create and deliver great buildings
• Between 5 and 10 years' post-qualification experience, to include healthcare sector experience.
• Professional experience working in a high-quality, design and delivery focused practice
• A keen interest in large scale architectural projects, while able to manage smaller/ multiple projects alongside
• Ability to work collaboratively in a large multi-disciplinary team, manage a small team, and work independently
• Excellent drawing and presentation skills and the ability to explain a design idea and evolution of a concept
• An ability to build rapport, create positive relationships and work effectively with others

Managing client relationships is key to this role and will include:

• Becoming involved at any stage of the process and can effectively input with minimal briefing
• Running multiple or complex projects start to finish, to satisfaction of client, in profit and on time
• Taking the lead role in taking a project brief, developing initial proposals detail design (in conjunction with a small team)
• Demonstrating awareness of own impact on others within other teams or business areas
• Managing fees and invoicing for projects (with administrative assistance)
• Contributing to winning new work
• Generating good PR for the practice

Requirements

Essential skills

• Primary/Community care sector experience
• Educated to at least RIBA Part 3 level with significant years post qualification experience
• Excellent communication skills
• An understanding of the sensitivities when communicating with and presenting to clients
• Ability to balance workload as the role will require you to focus on more than one project at a time
• Strong Revit and Enscape skills would be an advantage
• Demonstrable experience of collating and organizing design submissions, technical information, preparing drawings, plans and documents and report / spec writing

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of Photoshop and InDesign
• Major (£100m+) project experience
• Mental Health project experience
• Knowledge of CodeBook and Activity DataBase

Benefits

What we can offer

• Salary £42,000 to £47,000 (depending on experience)
• Part-time (minimum 80% FTE) or full-time hours
• Flexible and hybrid working environment
• Comprehensive benefits package
• A contemporary working environment
• A friendly, open and supportive culture
• The opportunity to become an owner of the business through our employee ownership model

If you would like to be considered, please include the following

• A cover letter explaining why you are the right person for this role
• A CV detailing your professional experience and achievements
• A portfolio showcasing a selection of your best residential projects

Stride Treglown is registered as a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We are committed to changing behaviours and cultures with inclusive recruitment practices. We believe that every individual irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, nationality, background, disability, or marital status can bring their full purpose to life. We will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

We look forward to hearing from you.