Your Opportunity

Stantec’s growing Healthcare practice is seeking a Senior Architect – Healthcare to join our Houston leadership team. This role is for an experienced, licensed architect who brings strong healthcare expertise and a proven ability to lead teams through the full lifecycle of complex projects.

As a Senior Architect, you will partner closely with Project Managers and Design Leaders to shape project vision, guide technical and design teams, and ensure design excellence from planning through construction and close-out. You will play a key role in client relationships, consultant coordination, and internal mentorship while supporting multiple healthcare projects concurrently, including acute and sub-acute care facilities.

This position balances design leadership, technical oversight, and strategic collaboration, serving as a trusted resource for clients and a leader within the studio.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the architectural delivery of medium to large, complex healthcare projects, ensuring alignment with project goals, regulatory requirements, budget, and schedule.
Provide design and technical leadership across all phases of work—from validation and pre-design through construction administration and close-out.
Champion design excellence, critical thinking, and innovation while maintaining rigorous healthcare standards.
Collaborate with Project Managers and Design Leaders to guide teams of architects and designers, establishing clear expectations and accountability.
Direct and review BIM-based design and documentation to ensure accuracy, coordination, and consistency with design intent.
Lead or participate in design critiques, technical reviews, and constructability assessments.
Coordinate architectural design with consultants, contractors, and owners to resolve complex technical and operational challenges.
Evaluate and guide selection of building systems and materials appropriate for healthcare environments.
Ensure accessibility, life-safety, and applicable building codes are integrated into design solutions.
Maintain continuity of design intent through documentation and construction.
Support sustainable design strategies appropriate for healthcare facilities.
Participate in programming, site analysis, and early planning efforts as needed.
Serve as a mentor and technical resource to architects and designers within the healthcare studio.

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

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Senior Architect - Healthcare