Technical Director: Practice-wide Tech Lead with Equity Path

Lofthouse Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lofthouse Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Technical Director to shape how an architectural and interiors practice operates across all studios and projects. This leadership role focuses on influence, culture, and practical technical delivery, not auditing.

You will create a usable toolkit, build a central technical team, and guide a multi-year programme of improvement with studio leaders, while safeguarding the firm's technical reputation and standards.

Qualifications

• Solid post-qualification experience in architecture, interiors, engineering or a related built environment discipline, with several delivered projects.
• A strong working knowledge of UK Building Regulations, the Building Safety Act, CDM and design safety, and quality assurance.
• The ability to influence senior, independent-minded people without relying on formal authority, and to make technical issues simple and commercially relevant.
• Energy, warmth and resilience, with the patience to bring people with you over the long term.

Responsibilities

• Building trusted relationships with the practice's principals, understanding each studio's priorities before proposing change
• Developing a practical, genuinely usable toolkit of technical standards, guidance and ways of working, shaped around how the studios actually operate
• Leading a three to five year programme of incremental improvement, working with studio leaders as partners rather than imposing change on them
• Leading and growing a specialist team covering building regulations and planning delivery, CDM and design safety, and inclusive design, and positioning them as the practice's go-to experts
• Growing the internal culture of technical reviews and knowledge sharing, and spotting where good practice in one studio should be shared with others
• Setting the technical training and development agenda in partnership with People & Culture
• Keeping the practice's quality assurance standards (including ISO and professional indemnity requirements) in good shape, and reporting to the Board on technical performance
• Acting as a source of pragmatic technical judgement for principals, and supporting client conversations that call for senior technical credibility

Job description

Lofthouse Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Technical Director to shape how an architectural and interiors practice operates across all studios and projects. This leadership role focuses on influence, culture, and practical technical delivery, not auditing.

You will create a usable toolkit, build a central technical team, and guide a multi-year programme of improvement with studio leaders, while safeguarding the firm's technical reputation and standards.