Senior Project Architect - Healthcare

Overview

As Senior Architect, Health at Stantec’s Alberta Practice, you lead healthcare design from planning through close-out, shaping spaces that support patient‑centred care and operational excellence. You collaborate with clinical and operational teams to translate care models, workflows, and infection control into integrated architectural solutions. You balance design quality with clinical functionality, risk, and budget while guiding multidisciplinary teams. You contribute to pursuing new work and growing Stantec’s Health practice across the Prairies and Territories. This role offers impactful projects in acute, ambulatory, and other health facilities within a collaborative, sustainability‑moc​

Pay / Benefits

• health, dental, and vision plans
• wellness program
• retirement savings plan
• employee stock purchase program
• tuition reimbursement
• paid time off

Responsibilities

• Guide healthcare projects from planning through close-out, including commissioning support
• Translate clinical, operational, infection prevention, accessibility, and stakeholder priorities into coordinated architectural solutions
• Align scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and design intent with leadership
• Coordinate integrated design teams and apply QA/QC, BIM, and delivery processes
• Support client meetings, user group workshops, functional programming sessions, and healthcare approvals
• Coach team members and contribute to portfolio development and thought leadership

Key requirements

• Advanced healthcare architectural design and documentation knowledge
• Experience on healthcare projects (acute, ambulatory, diagnostic, long-term, mental health)
• Ability to manage design quality, clinical functionality, and client priorities within time and budget constraints
• Strong communication, facilitation, leadership, and client relationship skills
• Experience with QA/QC, BIM, governance, and healthcare standards
• Proficiency in Revit, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite

• Strong communication
• Facilitation
• Mentoring
• Revit
• Bluebeam
• Microsoft Office

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