Lead Architect / Project Manager

Role overview

Leadership and coordination

• Lead architects, designers, BIM modelers, quantity surveyors, and planning engineers; allocate tasks, review outputs, and guide junior staff.
• Coordinate with structural, MEP, transport, environment, process, landscape, infrastructure, and other disciplines, plus external stakeholders and sub-consultants.
• Control assigned architectural design activities and day-to-day team coordination.
• Recommend resources, design priorities, and corrective actions to meet project objectives.

Design and project delivery

• Develop concepts suited to the client brief, site, function, aesthetics, constructability, budget, and programme.
• Lead client reviews and presentations; communicate design intent and obtain acceptance, approvals, and closure of comments.
• Coordinate with authorities and external specialists to secure inputs and approvals.
• Plan milestones and monitor progress, resources, interfaces, risks, and critical issues.
• Review drawings, reports, specifications, schedules, material selections, and other deliverables for quality, completeness, coordination, and compliance.
• Support scope clarification, design changes, variations, programme and commercial coordination, project progress, and invoicing strategies.
• Prepare status reports and communicate key issues, decisions, and actions to management and clients.

Experience and education

• 10–15 years of professional architectural design experience; the source also lists 10 years as required.
• Five to ten years of Middle East or Qatar project experience in design consultancy and familiarity with local authority processes.
• Bachelor of Architecture; a master's degree or relevant postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and presentation/visualization software is required.
• UPDA registration is described as mandatory, but also as potentially dependent on grade and project assignment.
• Professional-council membership or registration is preferred.

Specialized experience and certifications

• Experience areas include architectural concepts, schematic and detailed design, client presentations, multidisciplinary coordination, project execution, code compliance, life safety, and team leadership.
• Master planning experience is advantageous.
• Revit/BIM knowledge is an advantage but not mandatory.
• PMP and LEED/GSAS certifications are preferred for candidates progressing toward Project Manager responsibilities.

Workplace

• Work location is in person in Doha.

Pay

• QAR 12,000–15,000 per month.

Project controls and management systems