Our award-winning AECOM Sports and Venues practice is seeking a Senior Architectural Project Architect for immediate employment based in either of our three offices, located in Kansas City, MO, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. The candidate is to lead and execute interdisciplinary projects with a focus on Sports, and Public Assembly, including professional and collegiate arenas, stadia and coliseums, recreation centers. Our Sports practice is an established leader in the market with over three decades of success. This studio sized practice focuses its work on everything from performance and development facilities to primary competition venues, ranging anywhere from small collegiate clients to the largest of professional leagues and franchises.  We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.Under AECOMs Buildings + Places business line we embody the spirit of a nimble, fully integrated design firm within a fully global infrastructure organization. Our culture is dynamic, offering autonomy and the feel of a smaller, collaborative studio backed by the resources of a large interdisciplinary firm. Services include architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism, and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy +, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management.  This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create.Position Overview:Working closely with the Sports Practice Leader, you'll work with talented teams of architects, championing creative solutions that redefine spaces, enhance communities, and align with our commitment to innovation and sustainability. Your leadership and acumen will shape projects that resonate with clients, inspire our teams, and leave a lasting positive impact.Job Summary/ResponsibilitiesThe role in partnership with the Studios Practice Director and/or Project Manager(s), you will lead a team, or multiple teams, in the design and technical documentation and delivery of a wide range of projects.Supporting the pursuit of exciting new projectsPrepare design and contract drawings using advanced design software toolsDevelop solutions to a wide range of difficult technical problemsOversee the work of more junior designers and architectsManage client, team, and project coordination, including full documentation coordination with structural, MEP, lighting, AV, landscape, and civil consultantsSupport communication between project team, clients, vendors, contractors, consultants, and building and permitting officials
