Senior Architectural Technologist in Cardiff

Are you an experienced Senior Technologist, looking for your next challenge with a progressive and supportive employer with a triple bottom line? (People, Planet, and Purpose) We are offering an opportunity for someone eager to join our Cardiff team.

A bit about us: Stride Treglown is an employee-owned architectural practice and certified B Corp. Since 1953, we’ve been clear that great design requires a human approach, deep local knowledge, and specialist expertise—all backed by verified results. We’re now one of the UK’s largest architectural practices, with 300+ specialists in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, masterplanning, town planning, and graphic design. Across 9 UK studios, we’re embedded in the communities we live and work, bringing imagination and flair to every project—with the technical proficiency to deliver what we design.

Is this the job for you? We are looking for an experienced job running Senior Technologist with a proven track record of designing and delivering projects to join our Cardiff studio. You will have significant experience and be able to run several on site projects at the same time, clearly delegating to less experienced team members. We are looking for someone with lateral thinking, clear communication, and collaborative spirit.

As Senior Technologist you will:

• Lead project teams, write full specifications, and regularly lead or manage small teams internally.
• Manage your own workload in addition to supervising others.
• Answer complex queries from a range of internal and external clients, including coordinating with other consultants.

You must be:

• Experienced in running large scale (£20m+) projects.
• Capable of managing and delegating workload to more junior members of your delivery team and/or to outsourcing partners.
• Able to manage a small team and work independently.
• Interested in innovative offsite/Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and net zero carbon buildings.
• Flexible in your approach to a project.
• Someone that cares about creating and delivering great buildings and places.
• Eager to work on a range of projects and in a range of sectors within our Bristol studio.
• Eager to share experience and knowledge with others working on projects across the company.
• Adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Reporting to the regional director, you will manage a small team within the studio. Managing client relationships is a key aspect of this role and will involve:

• Becoming involved at any stage of the process and being able to effectively input with minimal briefing.
• Running multiple or complex projects start to finish, to satisfaction of client, in profit and on time.
• Taking the lead role in taking a project brief for technical delivery stages, developing initial proposals for detail design (in conjunction with a small team).
• Demonstrating awareness of own impact on others within other teams or business areas.
• Managing fees and invoicing for projects (with administrative assistance).
• Contributing to winning new work.

Essential skills:

• An in-depth knowledge of Revit.
• Taking a brief and developing initial proposals for technical delivery stages.
• Managing and co-ordinating the design team and associated professional consultants.
• Producing, analysing and advising upon specification, materials selection and detailed design solutions in relation to performance and production criteria.
• Producing, managing, controlling and integrating design and production information.
• Ensuring compliance with design, legal, statutory and professional requirements for large and complex projects, possibly multiple projects.
• Managing the design process or development of construction project.
• Monitoring the financial performance of projects.
• A good understanding of developing technical specifications to support work packages.
• Evaluating and advising upon refurbishment, repair, reuse, recycling and deconstruction of buildings.

Desirable Skills:

• Assessing and prioritising the needs of clients and users and agreeing the project brief.
• Developing the project design, researching problems and producing, developing and advising upon innovative solutions.
• Appraising building performance in use and producing, developing and maintaining maintenance management information systems.
• A working knowledge of Dynamo scripting.
• A working knowledge of NBS Chorus.
• Having either Education, Healthcare or Technology and Innovation sector experience.
• Experience of managing remote outsource technical delivery partners.

If you are interested in joining our team we ask that you include a cover letter explaining why you are the right person for this role, a CV covering your professional achievements and experiences, and a portfolio that includes examples of your best projects to show us that you are the right person for this role. Your portfolio must include examples of your 1:5 or 1:10 details, NBS specifications and general arrangement drawings.

Stride Treglown is registered as a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We are committed to changing behaviours and cultures with inclusive recruitment practices. We believe that every individual irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, nationality, background, disability, or marital status can bring their full purpose to life. We will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please apply via our website – you do not need to join or subscribe to any third party websites. We look forward to hearing from you!

What we can offer:

• Full-time hours.
• Flexible work environment.
• A comprehensive benefit package.
• A contemporary working environment in an excellent location.
• A friendly, open and caring culture.