Senior Technical Director - Hybrid Multidisciplinary Design

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited seeks an experienced Senior Technical Director – Multi-Disciplinary Design to provide strategic, technical, operational, and commercial leadership across our design business in Ireland. The role can be based in one of our offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, or Galway.

The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, environmental, and specialist disciplines, ensuring delivery of complex projects

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related technical discipline.
• Significant senior-level experience within the built environment, engineering, architecture, or multidisciplinary consultancy sector.
• Proven track record of leading large, multidisciplinary teams and complex projects or programmes.
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic technical leadership across multiple projects, clients, or business areas.
• Proven responsibility for budgets, revenue, resource management, and commercial performance.
• Strong track record of developing and maintaining senior client relationships and identifying opportunities for business growth.
• Demonstrated experience leading major bids, strategic pursuits, proposals, and client presentations.
• Strong understanding of integrated project delivery, design management, technical assurance, and multidisciplinary design integration.
• Experience managing complex programmes, risks, resources, and competing priorities while maintaining technical and commercial performance.
• Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills at senior client and executive level.
• Proven ability to lead geographically dispersed and multidisciplinary teams within a collaborative, high-performance environment.
• Strong understanding of BIM, digital engineering, and emerging technologies and their application to improve project and business performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership for multidisciplinary design teams and major projects across the region.
• Establish and execute strategic plans to support the growth of AECOM’s design business and market position.
• Hold accountability for budget, revenue, utilisation, profitability, and financial performance within the assigned portfolio or business area.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key clients, stakeholders, partners, and industry leaders.
• Identify, develop, and convert strategic business opportunities, supporting sustainable revenue growth.
• Lead major pursuits, capture strategies, bids, and client presentations, working collaboratively with sector and business line leadership.
• Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of opportunities aligned with AECOM’s strategic objectives.
• Provide executive-level oversight of project delivery, ensuring projects are delivered safely, to programme, budget, scope, quality, and client expectations.
• Provide strategic oversight of multidisciplinary design integration across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, environmental, and specialist disciplines.
• Act as a senior technical and client-facing representative for AECOM on major projects and strategic accounts.
• Provide oversight of technical quality, design governance, risk management, and compliance with relevant standards and client requirements.
• Lead senior-level design reviews, technical assurance, value engineering, risk workshops, and project governance activities.
• Work closely with Project Directors and Business Line Leaders to identify and manage commercial, technical, and delivery risks.
• Build, develop, and retain high-performing multidisciplinary teams, creating a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Mentor and develop Technical Directors, Project Directors, discipline leads, and emerging senior professionals.
• Support workforce planning, succession planning, recruitment, and development of key technical and leadership capability.
• Drive operational improvements and promote consistent approaches to project delivery, resource management, and financial performance.
• Champion digital engineering, BIM, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency, quality, and client outcomes.
• Represent AECOM at industry forums, client events, and professional organisations, enhancing the company’s profile and market position.
• Collaborate with regional, national, and global AECOM leadership to leverage technical expertise, sector capability, and international resources.
• Promote a strong culture of health, safety, quality, sustainability, and professional excellence across all activities.
• Contribute to the development and execution of AECOM’s wider business strategy, with a particular focus on revenue growth, client development, operational performance, and technical excellence.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic leadership

Business development

Stakeholder management

BIM & digital engineering

Integrated project delivery

Bid leadership

Client relationship management

Team leadership

Communication & negotiation

Global/ dispersed teams

Emerging technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related technical discipline

Tools

BIM

Digital engineering

Automation

AI

Job description

AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited seeks an experienced Senior Technical Director – Multi-Disciplinary Design to provide strategic, technical, operational, and commercial leadership across our design business in Ireland. The role can be based in one of our offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, or Galway.

The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, environmental, and specialist disciplines, ensuring delivery of complex projects