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Job Description Overview As a Architect, you will be instrumental in shaping and delivering high-quality architectural solutions across diverse, multidisciplinary projects. Leveraging your deep technical expertise, you will lead design coordination, drive strategic initiatives, and ensure adherence to global standards and best practices. This position is ideal for professionals with advanced technical knowledge and a strong passion for innovation within the built environment. Your role Lead architectural design and coordination across disciplines including MEP, structural, landscape, and other sub consultants. Deliver design packages aligned with global standards and quality benchmarks. Interpret business and project requirements to recommend best practices and challenge the status quo. Collaborate with remote and cross-functional teams to evolve ways of working. Prepare and manage tender documentation and support site supervision as needed. Contribute to project management, stakeholder engagement, and client presentations. Mentor junior team members and support capability development within the practice. Project Tools: Proven experience in architectural design and delivery within infrastructure or buildings & places sectors. Proficiency in tools such as AutoCAD, Navisworks, and Bentley-MicroStation. Familiarity with rendering tools and sustainability frameworks (e.g., LEED). Strong understanding of BIM coordination. Ability to work independently and lead functional teams when required. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills .About you Good ability to read and understand drawings with respect to its orientations and information content etc. Competent to produce detailed information in the drawings with minimal supervision. Competent to annotate the drawing with proper notes and specification clauses provided. Be able to produce mark up and comments for the juniors. Regular coordination discussion with team and other disciplines. Clear knowledge of different packages & their use. Able to interrogate the information & independently be able to produce drawings with minimal guidance & mark-ups from the seniors. Ability to highlight any discrepancy. Has clear knowledge of different package details & buildability. Able to interrogate the information & be able to develop the sketches for the junior team. Initiates the process of research & getting information on products from different manufacturers & consultants. Overview AtkinsRéalis India is expanding its architectural team to contribute to diverse sectors, including projects across the ME. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled architects and designers proficient in Revit to join us in building a well-integrated team that delivers world-class projects globally. Your role Technical: Advanced understanding of drawing information; Good understanding of approved documents. Independent ability to execute instructions and mark-ups without supervision. Responsible for co-ordination. Ability to mark-up drawings to be addressed by juniors. Documentation & Process Knowledge: Full understanding of RIBA Stages of Work. Contributing to inter disciplinary co-ordination. Good knowledge of scope of works of different consultants and ability to leverage for coordination of their packages. Knowledge of inter disciplinary co-ordination. Enhances skills in latest technologies/software's to augment existing knowledge and develops skills in others. Project Administration: Understands the design requirement. Knowledge of the associated consultants/ contractor’s level of their involvement in the project. Notifies the seniors of any design requirements and highlight early risks and warnings. Aware of range of materials and suppliers as required. Checking the drawings. Aware of the standards and ability to analyze and understand the document. Assist seniors for compliance. Involved in the project administration process: analyzing the scope of work, time estimation, technical design development, highlighting early risk or warnings, preparing feasibility studies to assist the technical lead. Ability to refer the applicable approved documents/ Regulations to verify the compliance and applicable guidelines and norms. Ability to understand project specifications and maintain good professional relationship with the team and involved members. Continues to develop knowledge in Project administration as project work continues. Understands the design requirement. Awareness of the associated consultants/ contactors and level of their involvement in the project. Aware of local planning authority procedures of work. Assist senior team member in preparing the feasibility studies, and possible documentation works. Ability to develop options for concept designs under the supervision of seniors. Assist team to work out hours estimate per drawing. Take minutes of set up meetings etc. Produces area/ accommodation schedules etc. Continues to develop knowledge in Project administration as project work continues. Project Tools: REVIT: Assisting setup of multidiscipline models and management of work sets. Clash detection, both within and across disciplines. Massing tools for concept and scheme design. Design options to trial multiple designs simultaneously. Creating parametric families providing the flexibility to use Revit as more than a set of building blocks. Link drawings to specs using Keynoting. Advanced level of with Autodesk certification preferred. Basic knowledge of Navisworks and basic awareness of Dynamo. Awareness of AutoCAD, Sketch up, Photoshop, InDesign, Enscape preferred. Architecture Construction & Technology Can read and understand client mark-ups and address them neatly without supervisor’s support. Can neatly and clearly mark-up drawings for revision by the team or junior grades. Can check mark-ups addressed by junior grades. Good understanding of the sequence of the construction and the usage of different elements within the framework and is aware of the technical terms of building elements. Is competent in understanding the requirements of other disciplines. Ability to assist seniors in the process. Continues to develop knowledge of drawn information through the progression of project work. Has good knowledge of range of materials and their varied usages in construction. Takes initiative to carry out research on the materials and is enthusiastic to learn and explore the materials under minimal supervision of seniors. Continues to develop knowledge of materials through progression of project work. About you Good ability to read and understand drawings with respect to its orientations and information content etc. Competent to produce detailed information in the drawings with minimal supervision. Reward & benefits Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. This includes: Comprehensive life insurance coverage. Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents. Generous annual leave balance. Flexible and hybrid work solutions. Remote work opportunities outside of country. Company gratuity scheme. Discretionary bonus program. Relocation assistance. Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition. Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make. About AtkinsRéalis We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more. Competent to annotate the drawing with proper notes and specification clauses provided. Be able to produce mark up and comments for the juniors. Regular coordination discussion with team and other disciplines. Clear knowledge of different packages & their use. Able to interrogate the information & independently be able to produce drawings with minimal guidance & mark-ups from the seniors. Ability to highlight any discrepancy. Has clear knowledge of different package details & buildability. Able to interrogate the information & be able to develop the sketches for the junior team. Initiates the process of research & getting information on products from different manufacturers & consultants. Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.