Senior Architect

Role overview

Authority regulations, permits, and submissions

• Prepare, coordinate, and submit complete architectural approval packages, including drawings, schedules, technical reports, and supporting documents.
• Apply Dubai and UAE regulations, development controls, building codes, fire and life-safety requirements, accessibility standards, and master-developer guidelines.
• Liaise with Dubai Municipality, Trakhees, Nakheel, Dubai Civil Defense, and other relevant stakeholders to obtain permits, NOCs, and statutory approvals.
• Manage authority comments, drawing revisions, resubmissions, design amendments, and approval trackers through timely closure.
• Verify plot limits, setbacks, heights, floor-area calculations, circulation, means of escape, and other approval-critical parameters.

Design and multidisciplinary coordination

• Review and develop architectural concepts, design-development packages, and technical drawings for compliance, functionality, and constructability.
• Coordinate architectural interfaces with structural, MEP, fire/life-safety, interior design, and specialist consultants; resolve clashes and approval risks.
• Ensure hotel and resort designs address operational planning, guest circulation, back-of-house areas, service access, and hospitality requirements.
• Oversee CAD documentation, drawing quality, specifications, details, and issue control across internal teams and external consultants.

Project delivery and technical leadership

• Support construction with technical clarifications, design changes, RFIs, shop-drawing reviews, and material submissions.
• Monitor compliance with authority-approved drawings and coordinate documentation for inspections, completion, and close-out approvals as applicable.
• Guide architects and draughting staff, manage technical priorities, and represent the architectural discipline in coordination and authority meetings.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from a recognized university.
• Valid Dubai Municipality G+12 Architect certification or registration is mandatory.
• At least five years of professional architectural experience, including significant Dubai or UAE project experience.
• Hands-on authority liaison, regulatory compliance, architectural submissions, permit applications, design amendments, and approval follow-up experience.
• Direct involvement in at least one hotel or resort development is mandatory.

Technical skills and preferred experience

• Strong AutoCAD capability and competence reviewing layouts, technical details, schedules, specifications, and statutory submission drawings.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary consultants and resolve technical and authority-related design matters.
• Experience with Trakhees, Nakheel, and other master-developer authorities is strongly preferred.
• Approvals for technically complex, multi-storey, or mixed-use hospitality developments are preferred.

Communication and working approach

• Strong written and verbal English communication, technical reporting, document control, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Early regulatory-risk assessment, practical compliant design recommendations, and deadline management are preferred.