Highlights

• Lead project teams, steer design strategy, and collaborate directly with clients and stakeholders.

• Focus on complex, design-led retrofit designs transforming urban spaces, conservation areas, and listed buildings.

• Grow your portfolio with cutting-edge commercial workplace, mixed-use, and selected residential and retail projects.

• Join a progressive team that values ingenuity, professional growth, and sustainable design practices.

• 1 day WFH, time off In lieu, 23 days holiday, health care plan + more!

We have a fantastic senior architect role focused on transformational retrofit projects in London’s vibrant urban spaces. Our client—a well-established architectural practice—is seeking a design-led architect to lead high-impact commercial design and mixed-use developments with a sustainability-first outlook. 

Position Overview

As Senior Architect, you’ll oversee challenging retrofit projects ranging from urban commercial buildings to listed sites requiring careful yet creative solutions. Your day-to-day will involve coordinating and mentoring small teams, engaging with high-profile clients across sectors, and managing projects through each phase—from feasibility studies to completion. Reporting directly to practice leaders, you’ll be pivotal in shaping not just projects but wider urban regeneration efforts. Notably, you'll handle structural reconfiguration, high-quality modern fit-outs, facade strategy, and sustainability upgrades.

Responsibilities:

• Direct Client Engagement: Serve as a key contact for developers, REITs, institutional investors, and luxury brand occupiers.

• Technical Leadership: Deliver retrofit solutions utilising Revit/MicroStation models while balancing form, cost, and performance.

• Project Oversight: Independently lead and oversee projects ranging in value from ~£10M to £60m.

• Team Leadership: Lead by example and contribute towards the development of junior talent, monitor outputs and ensure standards while fostering collaboration.

• Strategic Insight: Tackle design challenges posed by complex, constrained urban sites and conservation areas.

Requirements:

• Credentials: ARB/RIBA-accredited with 8+ years post-qualification experience.

• Project Skills: Experience leading creative and technical delivery for complex retrofit projects.

• Tech Proficiency: Fluency in Revit or MicroStation ideal with a strong understanding of building codes and sustainable design.

• Interpersonal Strength: Skilled communicator with experience in stakeholder engagement and team dynamics.

Company Overview

This firmly established architectural practice values quality without conformity. Their projects redefine urban context—resulting in work that balances aspirational design with grounded considerations. Operating in London’s prime districts, their diverse client base includes major investors, developers, and high-end occupiers, giving them a unique vantage point in pushing the boundaries of design and sustainability across sectors.

With a team of 20 passionate designers, the practice prioritises ingenuity, sustainability, and collaboration. You’ll join an environment where boldness is celebrated, mentoring is prioritised, and long-term commitment to employees is reflected in low staff turnover. Not to mention—a calendar packed with cultural trips, industry exhibitions, and regular social outings alongside a very competitive benefits package!

Benefits + Perks:

• Professional Growth: Paid study leave, mentoring programs, CPD sessions, professional subscriptions.

• Health & Wellbeing: Full health cash plan (optical/dental reimbursements, counseling access, GP 24/7).

• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working (including 1 day remote), Time Off In Lieu, enhanced parental benefits, 3 complimentary days holiday during Xmas.

• Cultural Perks: Annual social trips, exhibitions, cultural outings.

• Performance Rewards: discretionary annual profit share.

How to Apply