Lead Architect

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

AtkinsRéalis India is expanding its architectural team to support a wide range of multidisciplinary projects, including UK-based infrastructure and buildings commissions. As a Lead Architect, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality architectural solutions, leading coordination across disciplines, supporting technical excellence, and contributing to a well-integrated team that delivers world-class projects globally.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design development and coordination across disciplines including MEP, structural, landscape, and specialist sub-consultants.
• Deliver coordinated design packages aligned with project requirements, global standards, quality benchmarks, and agreed programme expectations.
• Interpret business, client, and project requirements to recommend appropriate technical solutions and challenge existing ways of working where improvement is possible.
• Collaborate effectively with remote, cross-functional, and lead office teams to support integrated delivery and continuous improvement.
• Support tender documentation, feasibility studies, design options, site-related queries, and project administration activities as required.
• Contribute to stakeholder engagement, client presentations, team coordination meetings, scope reviews, time estimates, and early identification of design risks or warnings.
• Mentor junior team members by preparing clear mark-ups, reviewing outputs, developing sketches, and supporting capability development within the practice.

Technical & Delivery Capability

• Strong architectural design and delivery experience within infrastructure, buildings, or multidisciplinary project environments.
• Hands-on ability to independently develop early-stage design proposals, using relevant BIM, visualisation, and presentation software to test options, communicate ideas, and support design decision-making.
• Advanced understanding of drawing information, drawing orientation, annotation, specification notes, approved documents, regulations, and design compliance requirements.
• Ability to execute instructions and client mark-ups independently, produce coordinated drawing information, identify discrepancies, and check outputs prepared by junior team members.
• Full understanding of RIBA Stages of Work, interdisciplinary coordination, consultant scopes, and the integration of discipline packages within project delivery.
• Good knowledge of construction sequence, buildability, technical terminology, materials, suppliers, and product research to support design development and decision-making.
• Ability to work independently, lead functional teams when required, and maintain effective professional relationships with project teams, consultants, and stakeholders.

Project Tools

• Advanced Revit capability, including multidisciplinary model setup, workset management, clash coordination, design options, massing tools, parametric families, and keynoting workflows.
• Proficiency in BIM and coordination tools such as Navisworks, AutoCAD, and Autodesk platforms; Autodesk certification preferred.
• Awareness of Dynamo, SketchUp, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Enscape, and other visualisation or presentation tools.
• Experience in AECOsim/OpenBuildings Designer and MicroStation is advantageous, particularly for infrastructure or multidisciplinary design environments.
• Ability to use PowerPoint, InDesign, Illustrator, rendering tools, and other presentation software to communicate design ideas clearly with lead office and client teams.
• Awareness of sustainability frameworks such as LEED and a willingness to enhance skills in emerging technologies and digital tools.

Qualifications & Experience

• B.Arch. or M.Arch. qualification with 10+ years of relevant architectural design and delivery experience.
• Established track record of delivering work to agreed time, quality, and technical requirements.
• Maturity and professional confidence to represent the GDC in LPO forums under appropriate supervision.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, coordination, and team leadership skills.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
• Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.