Associate Architectural Designer, Data Center

Senior Architect

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your Impact

Our Data Center team is expanding and is looking to hire a Senior Architect to be based at our Tokyo, Japan office.

The role:

• Lead the design and delivery of architecture across Data Center projects.
• Contribute to and lead the technical strength of the team, as well as the wider regional Jacobs business.
• Develop and solidify strong client relationships by demonstrated integrity, professionalism, and successful delivery.
• Provide overall programming, master planning and hospital design planning.
• Coordinate and integrate other discipline elements and systems into unified designs.
• Communicate with client/user groups to understand project requirements; prepare client presentations, illustrative design studies and reports.
• Be across the drawing and specification documentation for schematic through to detailed design phases of hospital design projects. May work on early project phases including master planning, and conceptual development.
• Prepare quantitative data to support cost estimates.
• Review submittals, addresses contractor requests for information and conducts periodic on-site visits to monitor contractor's compliance with detailed design documents during project construction phase.
• Periodic travel to project sites

You will be required to:

• Lead design and delivery documentation and coordination of projects, including a working knowledge of dRofus and Revit.
• Prepare design documentation, specifications, and reports.
• Conduct and lead internal learning and development /knowledge-sharing on area of expertise.
• Support the interface with the design team across discipline and organizational boundaries.
• Balance competing requirements on projects to deliver a design outcome (e.g. cost v. time v. quality v. scope)
• Support and contribute to the management of operational risk, including project delivery, HSE, quality and service.
• Keep up to date with technical publications and innovations.
• Support business development and project bids.
• Have strong proficiency in Word processing and spreadsheet software applications.
• Participate in professional organizations and present at conferences.

Here's What You'll Need

To be a successful candidate, you shall possess:

• A recognized Architectural degree and a Registered Architect.
• Business proficiency in Japanese and English.
• Advanced Data Center design experience working directly with clients' senior management representatives, project managers and other stakeholders in determining, developing, and documenting programmatic requirements.
• Strong design and communication skills, design management experience to lead projects from concept design through to delivery.
• Detailed understanding of good design, detailing, methodologies and techniques
• Strong organizational skills to effectively balance multiple priorities; coordinate work with engineering disciplines and specialty consultants, working independently as well as collaboratively.
• Able to write scope descriptions and estimate hours to design and document design services related to this discipline.
• Highly responsible and motivated to achieve total project success; promotes project and Jacobs goals of client service, design excellence, innovation and sustainability.

Please note: If you are being represented by a recruitment agency you will not be considered, to be considered you will need to apply directly to Jacobs. Jacobs complies with the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices (TGFEP), including the prevailing guidelines on recruitment. All qualified applicants will be considered for the position regardless of age, race, religion, language, nationality, marital status, or family responsibilities.