Overview Senior Architect leading laboratory planning within DLR Group's Science + Technology team. You'll guide programming, planning, and design for R&D, teaching environments, and analytical laboratories, interfacing with principals and project teams. The role blends technical leadership with business development and thought leadership at conferences. You'll help expand the lab planning practice while delivering innovative, compliant facilities. Join a culture that values collaboration, sustainability, and cross-disciplinary expertise.
Compensation / Benefits- Four-day in-office work model with Friday flexible remote work
- Hybrid work model balancing office and home
- Employee-owned firm culture
- Diversity and equal opportunity employment
Responsibilities- Provide technical leadership on large laboratory and science-building commissions
- Oversee multiple small to medium projects with guidance to junior staff
- Develop space programs, planning grids, and service distribution concepts for labs
- Lead documentation of laboratory systems and equipment provision
- Collaborate with design teams and owners on documentation and construction administration
- Contribute to business development through proposals, pre-positioning, and presentations
- Mentor junior staff and participate in performance coaching
- Participate in recruitment and interview processes as requested
Key requirements- Minimum 10 years of professional experience across project types, complexity, and scale
- Experience with academic, research and STEM facilities for college/university clients
- Strong leadership, written and verbal communication, and organizational skills
- Proven experience in programming, design, and construction of laboratory facilities
- Understanding of code implementation, jurisdiction review, and construction practices
- Ability to manage clients, project teams, and processes
- Proficiency with design software including Revit, Bluebeam, Enscape, and SketchUp
- Willingness to travel locally, nationally, and internationally up to 25%
- Eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
- Strong communication and client relationship skills
- Mentoring and leadership of multidisciplinary teams
- Collaborative, proactive problem-solving approach
- Laboratory programming and planning
- Laboratory systems documentation (casework, equipment)
- Development of planning grids and space planning for high-tech facilities
