Senior Project Architect - Healthcare

Stantec; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision plans

Wellness program

RRSP matching

Job summary

Stantec’s Buildings team in Calgary seeks an experienced Senior Health Architect to lead complex healthcare projects. You will guide planning, programming, design, documentation, and construction administration while translating clinical needs into practical architectural solutions.

The role emphasizes design leadership, healthcare planning, and collaboration with clients, clinical users, and project teams to deliver safe, resilient, and sustainable facilities across the Prairies and Territories.

Qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture (B.Arch or M.Arch) is required.
• Registration as an Architect in Alberta or ability to obtain via reciprocity is required.
• PMP, LEED accreditation, or comparable credentials are assets.

Responsibilities

• Guide healthcare projects from early planning through close-out.
• Translate clinical and operational priorities into architectural solutions.
• Align scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk and design intent with leadership.
• Coordinate integrated design teams and apply QA/QC and BIM processes.
• Support meetings, workshops, pursuits, and portfolio development.
• Mentor team members and contribute to market-facing materials.

Skills

Healthcare design

Leadership & mentoring

Client relationship

Communication & presentation

Education

Architectural degree (B.Arch/M.Arch)

Tools

Revit

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Primary Location

Canada | AB | Calgary

Other Locations

Canada | AB | Edmonton

Organization

1442 Buildings-CA Alberta-Calgary AB

Employee Status

Regular

Business Justification

New Position

Travel

Yes

Schedule

Full time

Job Posting

16/09/2026 08:09:00

Req ID

1007790