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About the Role
Parsons is seeking an experienced Architect to support and grow our Canada Rail & Transit business. This role is ideal for a senior architect with deep expertise in station design, maintenance and storage facilities, rail and bus depots, and zero-emission bus (ZEB) facilities, along with proven leadership in project delivery and pursuit support.
Responsibilities
- Lead all phases of transit facility projects (planning/feasibility, concept, schematic, detailed design, and construction support) ensuring delivery meets scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
- Serve as Architectural Lead and/or Project Manager for complex transit facilities and coordinating architectural designs with civil, structural, MEP, systems, rail, operations, safety, and sustainability requirements.
- Ensure design reflects transit operating needs, maintainability, passenger experience, safety/security, accessibility, and resilience.
- Act as a primary point of contact for clients and stakeholders, maintaining trusted relationships and responding effectively to feedback.
- Lead and participate in workshops, design reviews, value engineering, and stakeholder engagement activities (owners, operators, municipalities, Indigenous communities where applicable, constructors, and third parties).
- Identify, qualify, and support pursuits across Canada including: Maintenance & Storage Facilities, Zero-Emission Bus Facilities (charging infrastructure integration and facility impacts), Transit Stations and Station Upgrades.
- Contribute to proposals, interviews, technical approaches, schedules, resourcing plans, and fee development in coordination with Parsons leadership.
- Champion design quality management and best practices, ensuring deliverables meet Parsons and client standards, applicable Codes, and authority requirements.
- Lead BIM strategy and execution (model-based coordination, clash detection, workflows, and BIM execution planning).
- Help build, mentor, and develop high-performing teams.
- Provide technical direction, coaching, and review of deliverables.
- Support hiring, resourcing, and capability development to help grow Parsons’ transit facilities architecture practice in Canada.
Requirements
- Professionally degree in Architecture accredited by the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Registered Architect with a Canadian provincial association (e.g., the OAA, AAA, AIBC, MAA, etc.).
- 20+ years of progressively responsible experience delivering transit/transportation facilities such as stations, depots, maintenance facilities, operations buildings, and/or intermodal facilities.
- Demonstrated leadership coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects from feasibility/concept design and throughout the various phases of detailed design and construction support/contract administration.
- Strong knowledge of Canadian Building Codes, accessibility requirements, and life-safety principles as applied to complex public/infrastructure facilities.
- Proven experience with alternative delivery models (e.g., Design-Build, P3, Alliance/CM) including architect responsibilities during procurement and construction.
- Business development experience supporting pursuits (proposal writing, technical leadership, interviews, and client strategy).
Skills
- BIM strategy and execution
- Model-based coordination
- Clash detection
- BIM execution planning
- Design quality management
- Revit
- AutoCAD
- Navisworks
- SketchUp
- MicroStation
- BIM Execution Plans
- Digital QA/QC processes
- Model-based coordination practices across disciplines
- Transit agency standards
- Stakeholder approvals
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 20+ years
Education Level
- Professional degree in Architecture
Salary/Compensations
- $85,000 - $135,000
Benefits
- Health
- Vision
- Dental
- Employer paid provincial care premiums
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP)
- Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Sick leave
- All province observed holidays off
- Gym membership discounts
About the Company
- For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world.
- We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure.
- We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency.
- Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!
Equal Opportunity
- Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace.
- Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.