Senior Director & Principal Healthcare Architect

Stanford Health Care; California; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Health Care in California seeks a senior leader to set enterprise architectural vision for complex healthcare campuses, transforming strategic priorities into patient‑centered spaces that support care, research, and growth.

The Senior Director-Principal Facilities Architect serves as SHC's enterprise architectural authority, guiding design standards, governance, and capital programs while leading a team of architects and coordinating with executives, planners, and clinical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Deep healthcare or complex institutional project experience.
• Executive-level communication skills and strong regulatory knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Establish and uphold enterprise architectural design standards, guidelines, and best practices across all healthcare projects.
• Provide oversight for programming, planning, and design from concept through construction.
• Ensure alignment with clinical workflows, patient safety, infection prevention, and evidence‑based design principles.
• Approve key design deliverables and manage design risk.
• Serve as the primary architectural representative for SHC with external architects, engineers, and consultants.
• Define scope, expectations, and performance metrics for projects.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Healthcare facilities design

Executive communication

Regulatory knowledge

Project governance

Job description

Stanford Health Care in California seeks a senior leader to set enterprise architectural vision for complex healthcare campuses, transforming strategic priorities into patient‑centered spaces that support care, research, and growth.

The Senior Director-Principal Facilities Architect serves as SHC's enterprise architectural authority, guiding design standards, governance, and capital programs while leading a team of architects and coordinating with executives, planners, and clinical stakeholders.