Senior Project Architect
NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at . Join us to make an impact today!
The role at a glance:
NBBJ Columbus is seeking a Senior Project Architect to join it's highly collaborative team. NBBJ is looking for a project architect with demonstrated experience working on Healthcare, Higher Education or Commercial projects involving client contact and leadership responsibilities. The Senior Project Architect performs architectural design and delivery for a wide variety of projects involving the construction of new buildings and the alteration of existing buildings and facilities.
In your new role, you will:
- Work with clients and team members to identify objectives, develop options, and formulate creative solutions
- Interpret design concepts by collaborating with project team and translate them into workable construction systems and detailing, while maintaining design intent and advocating for design excellence
- Prepare appropriate documentation and deliverables from schematic design through construction administration in accordance with established firm and industry standards
- Maintain appropriate records for project phases in accordance with established firm and industry standards
- Lead and coordinate the work of other team members and consultants, providing direction, guidance, and mentoring as appropriate
- May participate in marketing efforts, including proposal development, presentations, and client interviews
- Minimum 15 years of experience in the architectural field with successful experience in the documentation and delivery of a variety of projects
- Fluency in Revit
- Bachelors of Architecture or Masters of Architecture degree
- Architectural Licensure; LEED or other sustainability accreditation preferred
- Proven ability to work within a highly collaborative team environment
- Excellent communication skills and strong attention to detail
- Ability to work with integrity, trust and commitment; setting an example for others
- Ability to travel as the project(s) requires
This role requires the individual to be based in the United States.