Lead Architect/Designer

At Zaha Hadid Architects, we are seeking to hire an experienced Lead Architect/Designer on a fixed-term, full time contract to join our growing team in London. The ideal candidate should have strong detailing and delivery skills, with substantial coordination and construction stage experience.

Main responsibilities

• To work on projects, taking responsibility for delivering more than one project at a time.
• To be able to interpret the design intent for a project and know when to consult, so that the design upholds the reputation of ZHA in the marketplace.
• To manage project-based teams, ensuring that a number of projects are designed, detailed and delivered to meet the standards set down by the senior team.
• To take responsibility for steering projects through all work stages.
• Coordinate with consultants, contractors and suppliers.
• Produce details and construction drawings.
• Work independently to resolve design and technical issues.
• Research products and specifications.
• To mentor project team members.

Your profile

• Effective communicator when describing complex ideas for drawings or models.
• Collaborative and influential team leader and team player.
• Highly organised, effectively managing your time and that of others.
• Confident in exercising judgement, making, and implementing reasoned decisions.
• Professional always and leading by example.
• Enquiring and adaptable.
• Self-motivated and self-critical.
• Willing to develop, learn and go the extra mile.

Skills Required

• Must demonstrate Rhino proficiency.
• Revit knowledge would be preferred.
• Strong technical knowledge in coordination and detailing.

Required experience

• Qualified Part 3 Architect (or equivalent international qualification) with demonstrable and relevant experience of working in practice.
• Previous experience of working on large scale, complex projects is beneficial.
• Experience delivering packages at RIBA stages 3+ or equivalent.

How to apply

Along with your CV and Portfolio, please also include detailed examples of projects using Revit in your application.

About us

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Creating buildings uniquely tailored to the communities they serve, ZHA has been awarded the highest honours from professional and academic institutions worldwide. Founded by Zaha Hadid in 1979, ZHA is one of the world’s most consistently inventive architectural studios—and has been for four decades. These decades of pioneering research are inscribed within our architecture to become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced, and more environmentally considerate with every new design. Combining innovative architectural solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices, we do not look at the disparate parts, but work to understand them as a whole to meet the aspirations of each new generation. As an employee-owned business, we reinvest all profits back into our people and our company; continually enhancing our multidisciplinary research to address the challenges impacting communities around the world.