- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Department
- Architecture
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
DLR Group's Fort Worth studio has an opening for an Senior Architect.
Position Summary
As a Senior Architect at DLR Group, you will take on a leadership role in managing key aspects of projects, overseeing the development and delivery of project documentation. You will collaborate closely with integrated design teams to produce high-quality work, ensuring adherence to project schedules, budgets, and work plans.
As part of our integrated design team, you create buildings that elevate the human experience through design. You will partner directly with the Project Manager to ensure the financial health of the project, the quality of project documents, claim prevention, team collaboration and communication. Additionally, you will lead the cross-functional design disciplines in developing technical solutions.
If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you’ll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably.
What you will do:
- Lead project development, client relationships, and project implementation in coordination with the Project Manager and Project Designer
- Oversee and ensure quality assurance/control, adherence to practice standards, and protocol compliance
- Align design intent with project schedules, budgets, and profitability targets
- Spearhead conceptual design and technical strategies, coordinating all disciplines involved in building design
- Present design and technical solutions to clients and stakeholders
- Mentor and lead teams to produce high-quality deliverables and drive innovative design excellence
- Execute quality assurance and control measures throughout all project phases
- Maintain clear communication with the Project Manager and design team, ensuring alignment on design intent
- Manage client expectations and foster strong relationships through effective presentations and engagement
- Ensure timely project delivery while meeting budget and profitability goals
Required Qualifications:
- Strong technical knowledge with the ability to coordinate and contribute to design and technical solutions
- Undergraduate Degree in Architecture required; professional licensure required
- Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in architecture
- Proficient in Revit, Bluebeam, and other standard architecture software
- Ability to lead sustainable design principles in technical plans and deliverables
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong organizational abilities
- Active participation in professional organizations and involvement in marketing and business development activities
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#LI-MIS
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.
