Senior Design Manager - Architecture (Q-RB)

The Senior Design Manager – Architecture oversees consultant‑led architectural design across all project stages, ensuring compliance with QIC requirements, approved design briefs, Scopes of Work, and applicable technical standards.

The role provides design governance and multidisciplinary coordination, ensuring that architectural intent is maintained and appropriately integrated with structural, MEP, landscape, and other specialist consultant inputs to deliver a coordinated, compliant, and construction‑ready design.

The SDM does not undertake design production and is responsible for reviewing, guiding, and assuring the quality, coordination, and deliverability of consultant design outputs, while supporting the Design Director in design leadership, technical assurance, cost alignment, and execution readiness.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Oversee, coordinate, and monitor all architectural design activities while overseeing and aligning all design disciplines (structural, MEP, landscape, infrastructure) to ensure full integration with the architectural vision.
• Act as the primary design interface across disciplines, ensuring that all trades are coordinated, conflicts are resolved early, and design outputs are fully integrated and aligned.
• Manage engagement with architectural and multidisciplinary consultants, ensuring compliance with QIC design briefs, SOWs, guidelines, and technical standar