Senior Architect - Water

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Senior Architect to join our Industrial Water team. This is an opportunity to help shape complex, high-impact facilities that support water treatment, wastewater treatment, process water, water reuse, and related industrial infrastructure, while collaborating with global experts on technically challenging and meaningful projects.

This role is well suited to an architect who enjoys combining technical rigour with thoughtful design in highly coordinated environments. You will take ownership of significant design packages, contribute to solutions for complex industrial water facilities, and work closely with multidisciplinary teams across regions. Beyond project delivery, the role offers the opportunity to influence standards, mentor emerging talent, and grow your leadership profile within a global practice committed to innovation, sustainability, and professional development.

Role Accountabilities

• Embrace and demonstrate the Arcadis behavioral framework in your day-to-day work.
• Prioritize your own safety and safety of others by understanding and following the Arcadis Health and Safety Principles.
• Lead architectural design packages for industrial water facility projects, shaping solutions that respond to client goals, process requirements, health and safety expectations, and programme constraints.
• Develop and coordinate architectural solutions for industrial water and wastewater treatment facilities, including process buildings, chemical storage areas, pump stations, control rooms, utility buildings, laboratories, and site layouts.
• Interface closely with process, MEP, structural, civil, and health and safety teams to ensure integrated, buildable, maintainable, and operationally efficient solutions.
• Support design development for new-build, brownfield, phased delivery, retrofit, and operational live-site conditions typical of industrial water facilities.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, coordination workshops, and client discussions, with the opportunity to help guide design decisions and build trusted working relationships.
• Review architectural deliverables to ensure consistency with project standards, regulatory requirements, authority approvals, and client guidelines for industrial water infrastructure.
• Help shape and improve industrial water facility standards, templates, and repeatable design approaches that strengthen quality, consistency, and delivery efficiency across projects.
• Support the team with technical drafting and design tools like Revit, while offering creative design ideas and visual presentations.
• Collaborate with global colleagues and project teams to ensure high-quality outcomes, maintaining clear and consistent communications across time zones and cultures.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, contributing to a supportive environment where knowledge sharing, professional growth, and design excellence are valued.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or a related equivalent.
• Achieved Licensed status or equivalent 
• 12+ years of experience, with a proven track record in industrial water, wastewater, or water treatment facility design, including complex process-driven environments and multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential to this role.
• Proven capability across all project stages, from concept and test fits through IFC and construction support, with a strong appreciation for both design quality and technical delivery.
• Strong understanding of industrial water and wastewater treatment facility planning, operational workflows, equipment interfaces, and the architectural implications of process-driven infrastructure.
• Experience leading architectural scope and coordinating with Process, Structures, MEP, Civil, and Health and Safety teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage design packages, and balance quality, programme, and client expectations in complex project environments.
• Strong client-facing skills, including design reviews and presentations. 
• Advanced proficiency in Revit; working knowledge of AutoCAD. Visualization tools are a plus.
• Experience working with international teams and global delivery models, ideally with U.S. or North American project experience, and confidence collaborating across disciplines, cultures, and geographies.
• Flexibility to support collaboration with U.S.-based teams and stakeholders, including occasional meetings in the evening in the Philippines, typically around 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong attention to detail
• Open-mindedness and enthusiasm for contributing to the team’s digital initiative and process automation efforts.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.

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