Senior Project Architect - Healthcare

Socket.dev; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Senior Health Architect to lead projects across planning, design, documentation, procurement, and construction administration for healthcare facilities in the Alberta practice. The role emphasizes translating care models, workflow needs, and infection control into practical architectural solutions.

Ideal candidates will have deep healthcare design experience, Alberta registration, and leadership skills to mentor teams and drive client relationships.

Qualifications

• Advanced technical knowledge of healthcare architectural design and documentation.
• Experience on healthcare projects (acute, ambulatory, long-term care, mental health).
• Ability to balance design quality with clinical functionality and client priorities.
• Proficiency in QA/QC, BIM, project governance, and infection prevention requirements.

Responsibilities

• Guide healthcare projects from planning through close-out.
• Translate clinical and operational priorities into architectural solutions.
• Align scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and design intent with leadership.
• Coordinate design teams and apply QA/QC and delivery processes.
• Support meetings, workshops, and client interactions.
• Coach team members and contribute to portfolio development.

Skills

Healthcare design

Clinical planning

Interdisciplinary coordination

Project leadership

QA/QC & BIM

Infection prevention knowledge

Education

Architecture degree (B.Arch / M.Arch)

Architect registration in Alberta

PMP/LEED assets

Tools

Revit

Bluebeam

MS Office

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Your Opportunity

We have an immediate need for a Senior Architect, Health to join our Alberta Practice. This role is intended for an experienced architect who is passionate about shaping healthcare environments that support patient-centred care, operational efficiency, clinical excellence, staff well‑being, and community access. The successful candidate will bring proven experience in acute care, ambulatory care, clinical, diagnostic, long‑term care, mental health, or other health‑related facilities and will help strengthen Stantec’s Health practice across the Prairies and Territories.

As a Senior Health Architect, you will guide complex healthcare projects through planning, functional programming, design, documentation, procurement, construction administration, commissioning support, and close‑out. You will work directly with healthcare clients, clinical and operational user groups, project managers, integrated design teams, and subject matter experts to translate models of care, workflow requirements, infection prevention and control considerations, technical standards, stakeholder priorities, and patient and staff needs into practical, well‑coordinated architectural solutions.

This role requires a balance of design leadership, healthcare planning knowledge, technical judgment, delivery discipline, and client service. You will help create facilities that are safe, inclusive, resilient, sustainable, adaptable, and responsive to evolving models of care while supporting a collaborative team culture. You will also contribute to pursuits, client development, interviews, mentoring, and the continued growth of Stantec’s Health practice.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Guide healthcare projects from early planning and functional programming through design, construction administration, commissioning support, and close‑out.
• Translate client, clinical, operational, infection prevention and control, accessibility, stakeholder, and public‑sector healthcare 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, clinical user group workshops, functional programming sessions, presentations, pursuits, interviews, and healthcare approvals.
• Coach team members and contribute to portfolio development, thought leadership, and market‑facing materials.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Advanced technical knowledge of healthcare architectural design, clinical planning, documentation, interdisciplinary coordination, constructability, and construction administration.
• Experience with healthcare, clinical, acute care, ambulatory care, diagnostic, long‑term care, mental health, community health, or other operationally complex health projects.
• Ability to balance design quality, clinical functionality, patient and staff experience, technical requirements, scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client priorities.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, team leadership, mentoring, and client relationship skills.
• Experience applying QA/QC, BIM, project governance, interdisciplinary coordination, healthcare standards, and infection prevention and control requirements.
• 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 healthcare architecture is strongly preferred, including acute care, ambulatory care, clinical and diagnostic environments, long‑term care, mental health facilities, community health centres, renovations in operating healthcare facilities, or other complex health environments.

Please submit a current portfolio or work samples in PDF format that demonstrate relevant project experience, technical leadership, design capability, and delivery impact.

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 & D 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.