Senior Architect & Portfolio Lead — Hybrid

GHD; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD is actively seeking a Senior Architect to lead multiple design teams in delivering high-quality outcomes across a diverse US West portfolio. The role aligns resources, priorities, and schedules while guiding complex architectural solutions that meet client, regulatory, quality, and cost requirements.

You will combine strong design expertise with people leadership, drive business development, and build trusted client relationships.

Qualifications

• More than 15 years of broad, progressively responsible architecture experience.
• More than 8 years of experience planning, managing and organizing people and resources.
• Master’s degree in architecture; professional registration is required.
• Strong people leadership skills and ability to develop future leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, quality, risk and stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple design teams, aligning resources, priorities, schedules and delivery expectations across a varied project portfolio.
• Manage portfolio performance, budgets and reporting, escalating risks and resolving delivery constraints in partnership with senior leaders.
• Direct the design and validation of complex or innovative architectural solutions that meet client, regulatory, quality, performance and cost requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering and business processes, using relevant metrics and lessons learned to prevent recurring issues.
• Translate functional strategy and business plans into clear team priorities, motivating people to achieve local and regional goals.
• Set performance objectives, hold team and project leaders accountable, and take timely action to keep commitments on track.
• Identify development needs, coach team members and support continuing professional development and succession planning.
• Build productive relationships with clients and stakeholders, understand their expectations, and communicate solutions and decisions clearly.
• Support business development and strategic planning while fostering collaboration across disciplines, teams and offices.

Skills

People leadership

Portfolio management

Communication skills

US Citizenship

Education

Master's degree in Architecture

Job description

GHD is actively seeking a Senior Architect to lead multiple design teams in delivering high-quality outcomes across a diverse US West portfolio. The role aligns resources, priorities, and schedules while guiding complex architectural solutions that meet client, regulatory, quality, and cost requirements.

You will combine strong design expertise with people leadership, drive business development, and build trusted client relationships.