Senior Architect at SAOTA

• We are looking for an Experienced Professional Architect to join our team. The successful candidate should display good leadership skills, the ability to lead a team of 6 - 10 staff members and manage interactions with clients.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Managing client expectations and relationship
• Leading multidisciplinary projects
• Monitoring and responding to RFP's
• Leading the agreed creative direction, generating design ideas and diligently maintaining focus on the technical design characteristics
• Leading project presentations
• Lead technical aspects of projects and play an integral role in systems development
• Control resource planning, adjusting and reporting as required
• Monitor, train and support all levels of staff in the team

Skills and Qualifications required are:

• Professional Architect
• Minimum of 5 years work experience
• Project experience in multi-disciplinary projects in SA / abroad for a minimum of 4 years
• Ability to work in a complex multi-cultural environment
• Proven leadership skills / management experience
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills
• High levels of drive, accuracy and focus
• Working knowledge of Revit and Lumion
• Able to travel
• All Employees are required to have an uncapped 20Mbps (up/down) minimum Internet Connectivity line.

Our team members are encouraged to:

• Display creative problem-solving skills
• Develop themselves by attending and participating in our Design Friday and RAD session
• Grow their careers by learning on our online LMS platform and taking on internal leadership responsibilities
• Socialise with their peers in our various interactive sessions: RUSk, Blink, Team Socials
• Look after their health and wellbeing at work (by joining STRETCH) and at home

SAOTA offers a hybrid working environment where staff can choose to work from home, in-studio or do both. Our flexible working hours policy aims to accommodate staff's home life commitments while ensuring our work commitments are reached.

Should you meet the minimum requirements for this role, please submit your portfolio along with your application. Portfolios should include:

• Work that displays your strengths as a designer
• Projects that you were a Design lead on
• Private or student work
• 5 – 8 projects