Senior / Lead Architect

About Dar:

Dar, the founding member of the Sidara group, is an international multidisciplinary consulting organization specializing in engineering, architecture, planning, environment, project management, facilities management, and economics. Sidara operates in 60 countries with 20,500 professionals, Dar connects people, places, and communities through innovative solutions to the world's most complex challenges. We deliver projects from inception through completion, embracing challenges to empower communities worldwide. Learn more at www.dar.com.

Our Vision and Values:

We aspire to be the chosen home of those with a gift for crafting solutions that empower people and an unwavering passion for learning and innovation. Our core values shape our culture and guide our decision-making. We are committed to:

• Excellence
• Responsibility
• Empowerment
• Connectivity
• Courage

• Leading the design project in large scale projects
• Prepare building drawings that address and meet exacting project functions of aesthetics and practicality and budget.
• Analyze user(s) requirements while participating in research, conceptual and development of designs.
• Assist in the analysis of proposed architectural / engineering alternatives and Minutes of meetings, sketches, reports, contract drawings, etc.
• Participate as applicable in research, conceptual and development designs exercises.
• Work in a team and coordinate building design with other design professionals and Engineers.
• Implement department and QA procedures.
• Coordinate project details with peers from other departments. Clarify/resolve problems, develop designs, and prepare design modifications as required.
• Prepare a complete set of Architectural design construction drawings, documents, specifications and maintaining the company’s graphical standards for deliverables.

Qualifications:

• Architectural design awareness in line with the company project portfolio of projects.
• Technical building systems awareness currently used across design typologies.
• International building code awareness.
• Fire and Life safety code awareness and regulations with regard to occupancy type , travel distance, no of egress points, egress width.
• Disability code awareness and application to building design typologies.
• Building Acoustic awareness and treatment in buildings.
• Building Material product selections and specifications.
• Building façade design and treatment with product selections.
• Building Signage awareness and application.
• Façade maintenance systems and basic selection criteria.

Skills:

• Enthusiastic, inventive and imaginative bent of mind with a positive work ethic and able to work in a demanding, interdisciplinary work environment.
• An intermediate to advanced working knowledge of Revit for building typologies.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent command in English Language.

Education / Experience:

• B.Arch. (or) M. Arch. from a reputed school.
• 8+ years of relevant experience with a good level of technical competency.
• An excellent knowledge of primary Software such as Revit, Sketchup, AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
• Additional software Knowledge such as Rhino, Grasshopper Dynamo, Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator, Navis Works is plus

Kind Note:

* While we carefully review all applications, only candidates meeting the specified requirements will be contacted for further consideration. We appreciate your understanding and thank all applicants for their interest.