Senior Architect

Role overview

This position is for a Senior Architect working on hospitality projects in Thiruvananthapuram. The role sits within a luxury resort environment and focuses on guiding design work, coordinating reviews, and making sure project deliverables align with the client brief, contractual scope, and overall programme.

Key responsibilities

• Assign, track, and balance work progress across the project team.
• Work with the project coordinator to collect end-user inputs and comments, then incorporate the required changes.
• Make sure every team member clearly understands their responsibilities and stays within the agreed project boundaries.
• Review design submissions and check them against project requirements and the contracted scope of services.
• Complete review tasks within the required timeframe.
• Compile and consolidate review comments shared by different design reviewers.
• Coordinate with other discipline engineers in the project team to review and finalise ongoing work.
• Confirm that all designs reflect the client’s expectations and project requirements.
• Ensure the design stays within the contracted scope of services.
• Monitor that the overall design schedule and programme are achieved.
• Carry out approved design modifications according to the prescribed process.
• Ensure coordination is effectively managed by both the design consultant(s) and the design review team.
• Lead design technical workshops with the project team and the consultant when needed.
• Participate in weekly consultant meetings and internal project review meetings.
• Share regular project updates with the principal architect, including progress, status, quality, and issues encountered.
• Act proactively on possible risks, delays, and technical challenges, and escalate concerns to management to help avoid slippage.
• Take part in special committees such as tender evaluation, construction follow-up, and handover as required and directed by the Projects VP.
• Evaluate and document the design and technical performance of the design consultant, and prepare a summary at the end of each design stage.
• Create a lessons-learned register and share it with the principal architect for use in current and future projects.

Preferred background

The ideal candidate should hold a postgraduate qualification in architecture with relevant experience, such as 8–10 years in design, or a B.Arch graduate with more than 12 years of design experience in a reputed organisation.

Experience in the design and design development of hospitality projects, including resorts and 3-star or 5-star hotels, is required. Prior exposure to sustainable design and development is also important for this role.

Additional information

The role is based in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The employer is Careernet, and the project context is a luxury resort setting.