Sr. Leading Architect

About Assystem

Architectural discipline leadership

• Lead architectural teams across assigned projects and allocate activities according to project priorities, workload, and competence.
• Provide technical direction, mentoring, and support; promote professional development and competency improvement.
• Review workload and resource requirements, report needs to management, and monitor productivity, deliverable progress, and milestones.
• Implement consistent design standards, architectural principles, and engineering practices.
• Support recruitment, technical interviews, and candidate assessment when required.
• Maintain high standards of architectural design quality and documentation.

Architectural design management

• Oversee concept and feasibility studies, master and site planning, architectural programming, space and functional planning, schematic design, design development, and detailed design.
• Coordinate interiors, building envelopes and façades, external works, hardscape, public realm, landscape, vertical transportation, accessibility, life safety, entrances, circulation, roofs, and plant rooms.
• Coordinate material and finish selection, sustainable and energy-efficient design, heritage considerations, and temporary or permanent works interfaces where applicable.

Design documentation and deliverables

• Review plans, site and roof plans, elevations, sections, reflected ceiling plans, details, façade drawings, schedules, room data sheets, area schedules, and space-planning documents.
• Lead or review specifications, bills of quantities, tender documents, authority submissions, visualizations, and client approval materials.
• Prepare and review design basis reports, design criteria, concept, schematic, detailed, and design-development packages, technical reports, and architectural drawings.
• Ensure documentation is coordinated, technically accurate, and suitable for the relevant project stage.

Regulatory compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable Saudi Building Code and architectural requirements, Saudi Civil Defense requirements, accessibility regulations, and municipality and local authority requirements.
• Royal Commission requirements apply where relevant; the source description truncates during the following compliance item.