Updated: Feb 24, 2025 - The Design Architect plays a key role in managing and delivering projects during the early design stages, ensuring clear communication and presentation of innovative ideas. Responsible for producing, checking, and reviewing Revit drawings while leading a small cohesive team. Coordinates the design process with internal and external stakeholders, contributing to team development and mentoring.


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1. Design Architect, Vector Design Solutions, Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Provide primarily technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions
- Use in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to the customer through presentations and product deliverables
- Create detailed design and implementation specifications and plan for complex products(SoC)/applications(suggestion for project)/systems(scripts)
- Build a mini-environment based on customer requirements to demonstrate the feasibility of the solution
- Perform in a project leadership role for determining and developing an approach to solutions or clear issues
- Customarily exercise independent judgment in selecting methods and techniques to obtain solutions or to meet MTO schedule
- Provide regular updates to manager on project status
- Guide more junior peers with aspects of the job
- Provide drawings and documentation in line with design briefs for product development and presentation
- Identify cost-effective and build-able solutions to all designs.
- Ensure compliance with relevant codes, regulations, and design guidelines.
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Support (Hard Skills)
- Product Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- System Design Specification (Hard Skills)
- Solution Demonstration (Hard Skills)
- Project Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Independent Decision-Making (Soft Skills)
- Mentoring (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
2. Design Architect, Arcadia Builders, Rochester, NY
Job Summary:
- Collaborate with the interior design team, lighting designers, audio/video contractors, developers, builders, general contractors, vendors, and fabricators
- Daily Communication with Creative Director
- Meet quarterly with leadership to review Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Create compelling architectural designs of the highest quality: Design Program, Conceptual/Schematic Design, Design Development, Management of Budgets & Schedules, and Construction administration
- Understand wood-frame construction and proficient knowledge of residential building codes
- Prepare, review and redline construction drawings
- Serve as a Quality Control manager for all drawings leaving the company
- Create designs from Schematic Design phase and lead a team to produce a set of documents for production
- Create, distribute and manage a project budget with team compliance
- Schedule multiple projects concurrently, while meeting project deadlines and adhering to budget
Skills on Resume:
- Architectural Design (Hard Skills)
- Wood-frame Construction Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Building Code Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Construction Drawing Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Quality Control Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Project Scheduling (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
3. Design Architect, UrbanEdge Architects, Boulder, CO
Job Summary:
- Play an active role in the management and delivery of projects in the early design stages
- Develop ideas and communicate these clearly to the rest of the team
- Present ideas to team members, clients, consultants, and other external stakeholders
- Produce Revit drawings, including checking and marking up drawings and reviewing the drawings of other team members drawings
- Work cohesively in a small team, leading
- Contribute to the ongoing development and mentoring of other staff members
- Provide innovative designs, drawings, and documentation
- Provide drawings and documentation to different levels of detail to suit the required stages of the design process.
- Control the input and output of all documentation within the team to ensure distribution and follow-up with relevant internal and external parties.
- Liaise with internal and external parties to coordinate the design process in conjunction with the Design Manager.
Skills on Resume:
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Revit Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Presentation Skills (Hard Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
- Mentorship (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Management (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Coordination (Soft Skills)
4. Design Architect, Innovative Structures Group, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Design, monitor, and implement major aspects of the architecture of the Solution Library and all its components.
- Designing data and conversion solutions while maintaining data integrity across the platform
- Provide technical leadership to the application development team including design and code reviews, Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout the full lifecycle.
- Document application development processes, procedures, and standards
- Collaborate with management and other stakeholders to ensure the architecture is aligned with business requirements
- Provides application assessment guidance to team members (Project Managers, Architects, and Executive Directors) in new or complex solution design, implementation and/or management tools and techniques
- Understands future customer, industry, and information technology trends
- Analyzes new and complex situations
- Selects, tailors and applies formal functional requirements, design and development methodologies to analyze customer needs and develop requirements for solution
- Evaluates potential solution elements using a formal methodology and selects most appropriate elements
Skills on Resume:
- Solution Architecture Design (Hard Skills)
- Data Integrity Management (Hard Skills)
- Technical Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Code Review Techniques (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Standards (Hard Skills)
- Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Solution Evaluation and Selection (Hard Skills)
5. Service Design Architect, Crescent City Designs, Baton Rouge, LA
Job Summary:
- Work closely with program leadership and product management to gain a clear vision of the WHY and strategic business outcomes.
- Partner closely with program leaders, the capability owner, and an SME to lead crafting designs that will translate the WHY-to-WHAT with high efficacy.
- Lead the design of the technical solution approach in partnership with a SME (per capability), as well as software & infra-architects.
- A cursory technical investigation may be required (in partnership with the lead SME) yet needs to be handled closely for how deep this goes at the design phase.
- Delivering a significant base use case design and hand-off to the lead SME to drive functional creation of the technical outcome.
- Coordinate and host a ‘design review’, and solution approach read-out to gain stakeholders CMS & A&I leadership to gain alignment and feedback.
- Hand off the design & solution approach to the SMEs and CO who will lead decomposing into functional requirements (Epics & user stories) into the Agile design and development process.
- Work closely with lead-SME CO to take delivery of the functional requirement (iteration reviews) and re-constitute solution approach to ensure the strategic outcome is realized and demo ready.
- Show how the strategic outcome was met with the design through a demo of the deliverable.
- Bring feedback and back to leadership & product management accordingly in terms of shaping strategic outcomes, how to gain adoption, technology & product insights, automation & integration options, etc.
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Solution Design (Hard Skills)
- Agile Methodologies (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Soft Skills)
- Leadership and Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Feedback Integration (Soft Skills)
- Presentation and Demonstration Skills (Hard Skills)
- Technology Trend Awareness (Hard Skills)
6. Service Design Architect, Blueprint Studios, Salem, OR
Job Summary:
- Work alongside the sales teams to provide formal service-related input into any customer service designs from templated designs
- Support the sales team on complex service designs
- Present client's services to new customers
- Attend any customer final stage presentations/Q&A sessions
- Understand the services that client offers and apply that understanding when negotiating services with customers
- Decision making authority with respect to negotiation of service outputs with customers and internal operational teams
- Understand any new technologies being introduced so that the service elements can be identified
- Create(where required)the applicable Scope of Works or Service Design Document, working with the legal team to ensure that contractual obligations are captured
- Manage the service design aspect of service implementation project, remaining the lead interface with the customer
- Ensure all elements of the operational transition are captured (essential part of the process)
Skills on Resume:
- Service Design (Hard Skills)
- Contract Development (Hard Skills)
- Technology Integration (Hard Skills)
- Presentation Skills (Hard Skills)
- Industry Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Negotiation (Soft Skills)
- Decision Making (Soft Skills)
- Customer Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
7. Design Architect, Horizon Architectural Services, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Working with the Design Consultant to create landscape design plans, specifically involving patios, decks, porches, retaining walls, and other hardscapes
- Using site analysis information including assessments, photos, field measuring of existing site conditions, etc. to draft base plans for projects using design software
- Creating presentation drawings/graphics that include hardscape elements with documentation
- Communicating with leadership, team members, and other industry professionals pertaining to project details
- Reviewing plans, proposed changes, and any other necessary documents with great detail and accuracy
- Anticipating foreseeable challenges, communicating concerns to appropriate team members, and taking proactive steps to overcome them
- Managing scheduling, communication, and documents pertaining to multiple projects simultaneously
- Working towards meeting design deadlines to meet project goals
- Managing programming of work and resources
- Coordinate team members and external consultant team to deliver the work
- Conduct project audits and technical reviews on other projects and contribute to other teams across the practice
Skills on Resume:
- Landscape Design (Hard Skills)
- Site Analysis (Hard Skills)
- CAD Software Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Presentation and Visualization (Hard Skills)
- Project Documentation Review (Hard Skills)
- Effective Communication (Soft Skills)
- Proactive Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Team Coordination and Management (Soft Skills)
8. Design Architect, Skyline Concepts, Albuquerque, NM
Job Summary:
- Manage delivery and risk across the project’s scope of work, contract requirements, and financial outcomes
- Ensure project work complies with the company standards and quality management systems
- Identify the supporting tools required to perform results analysis
- Developing design, preparing a drawing set, design team coordination, and producing deliverables throughout the design process.
- Manage all phases of a project from concept design to construction
- Assisting and/or leading project management efforts on projects.
- Guiding and mentoring junior team members.
- Assisting in the construction process: answering RFIs, reviewing submittals, solving construction-related issues and field problems.
- Consultant coordination, including drawings review and design integration
Skills on Resume:
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis Tools (Hard Skills)
- Design and Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Construction Management (Hard Skills)
- Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Mentorship (Soft Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
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