Senior Project Architect - Civic / Justice

Socket.dev; Calgary; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision plans

Retirement savings plan

Employee stock purchase program

Paid time off

Job summary

Stantec in Alberta is seeking a Senior Architect to lead justice and civic projects across the Prairies and Territories. You will guide planning, design, documentation, procurement, construction administration, and close-out, translating stakeholder priorities into practical architectural solutions.

The role requires a professional degree in Architecture, Alberta registration, and at least 12 years of progressive experience, including leadership on complex public-sector facilities.

Qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture with Alberta registration or eligibility.
• Progressive architectural experience of 12+ years including leadership roles.
• Experience on justice, civic, public safety or government facilities is strongly preferred.
• Strong design leadership, coordination, and client-relations skills.

Responsibilities

• Guide justice and civic projects from planning through close-out.
• Translate priorities into coordinated architectural solutions with stakeholders.
• Align scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and design intent with leadership.
• Coordinate integrated design teams and apply QA/QC and BIM processes.
• Support client meetings, pursuits, interviews, and public-sector approvals.
• Coach team members and contribute to portfolio development.

Skills

Architectural design

Public-sector experience

Project leadership

Communication skills

QA/QC BIM

Revit

Bluebeam

MS Office

Adobe Creative Suite

Education

Professional degree in Architecture

Registration as Architect in Alberta

PMP/LEED assets

Tools

Revit

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Your Opportunity

We have an immediate need for a Senior Architect, Justice and Civic to join our Alberta Practice. This role is intended for an experienced architect who is passionate about shaping public-sector environments that support safe communities, accessible services, operational resilience, and a meaningful civic presence. The successful candidate will bring proven experience in justice, civic, public safety, institutional, or government facilities and will help strengthen Stantec's Justice and Civic practice across the Prairies and Territories.

As a Senior Architect, you will guide complex projects through planning, design, documentation, procurement, construction administration, and close-out. You will work directly with clients, project managers, integrated design teams, and subject matter experts to translate operational needs, security considerations, stakeholder priorities, and community objectives into practical, well-coordinated architectural solutions.

This role requires a balance of design leadership, technical judgment, delivery discipline, and client service. You will help create facilities that are secure, welcoming, durable, sustainable, and responsive to daily operations while supporting a collaborative team culture. You will also contribute to pursuits, client development, interviews, mentoring, and the continued growth of Stantec's Justice and Civic practice.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Guide justice and civic projects from early planning through design, construction administration, and close-out.
• Translate client, operational, security, stakeholder, and public-sector priorities into coordinated architectural solutions.
• Work with project and practice leadership to align scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and design intent.
• Coordinate integrated design teams and apply Stantec's quality, BIM, document control, and delivery processes.
• Support client and stakeholder meetings, workshops, presentations, pursuits, interviews, and public-sector approvals.
• Coach team members and contribute to portfolio development, thought leadership, and market-facing materials.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Advanced technical knowledge of architectural design, documentation, coordination, constructability, and construction administration.
• Experience with public-sector, justice, civic, public safety, correctional, courthouse, or other secure and operationally complex projects.
• Ability to balance design, technical, operational, scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client requirements.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, team leadership, mentoring, and client relationship skills.
• Experience applying QA/QC, BIM, project governance, and interdisciplinary coordination practices.
• Proficiency in Revit, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and other common architectural tools.

Education and Experience

• Professional degree in Architecture, such as a Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture, is required.
• Registration as an Architect in Alberta is required, or the ability to obtain registration through interprovincial reciprocity. PMP, LEED accreditation, or comparable credentials are considered assets.
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive architectural experience, including leadership / Architect of Record on multidisciplinary projects in an architecture, engineering, or professional services environment.
• Relevant experience in Justice and Civic work is strongly preferred, including courthouses, correctional facilities, law enforcement facilities, public safety facilities, government buildings, civic facilities, or other secure and operationally complex environments.

Position will primarily work in an office setting; may require some field work.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what's previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what's possible.

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) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, 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 time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.