Senior Project Architect - Healthcare
Stantec · Calgary
Your Opportunity
We have an immediate need for a Senior Architect, Health to join our Alberta Practice. This role is intended for an experienced architect who is passionate about shaping healthcare environments that support patient-centred care, operational efficiency, clinical excellence, staff well-being, and community access. The successful candidate will bring proven experience in acute care, ambulatory care, clinical, diagnostic, long-term care, mental health, or other health-related facilities and will help strengthen Stantec’s Health practice across the Prairies and Territories.
As a Senior Health Architect, you will guide complex healthcare projects through planning, functional programming, design, documentation, procurement, construction administration, commissioning support, and close-out. You will work directly with healthcare clients, clinical and operational user groups, project managers, integrated design teams, and subject matter experts to translate models of care, workflow requirements, infection prevention and control considerations, technical standards, stakeholder priorities, and patient and staff needs into practical, well-coordinated architectural solutions.
This role requires a balance of design leadership, healthcare planning knowledge, technical judgment, delivery discipline, and client service. You will help create facilities that are safe, inclusive, resilient, sustainable, adaptable, and responsive to evolving models of care while supporting a collaborative team culture. You will also contribute to pursuits, client development, interviews, mentoring, and the continued growth of Stantec’s Health practice.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Guide healthcare projects from early planning and functional programming through design, construction administration, commissioning support, and close-out.
- Translate client, clinical, operational, infection prevention and control, accessibility, stakeholder, and public-sector healthcare priorities into coordinated architectural solutions.
- Work with project and practice leadership to align scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and design intent.
- Coordinate integrated design teams and apply Stantec’s quality, BIM, document control, and delivery processes.
- Support client and stakeholder meetings, clinical user group workshops, functional programming sessions, presentations, pursuits, interviews, and healthcare approvals.
- Coach team members and contribute to portfolio development, thought leadership, and market-facing materials.
Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec.