Senior Architect

SSOE's Birmingham or Huntsville offices are seeking a dynamic Senior Architect who is passionate about leading the design of innovative, sustainable, and state-of-the-art mission-critical, industrial, and/or manufacturing facilities for global industry leaders. If you are driven by professional growth while collaborating with an established and exceptional group of architects and engineers, this is an excellent fit for you.

Why Join SSOE?

At SSOE, you'll work with amazing colleagues and be part of something big! We've consistently been named a "Great Place to Work" and are experiencing the most successful years in our history. Along with industry-leading salary compensation, you'll be eligible to purchase shares in the company - shares that have significantly outperformed both the S&P and Dow averages.

We offer a hybrid work schedule option for this role.

What We Offer:

Competitive Salary: $130k - $145k/year depending on location, education, experience, and certifications.
• Bonus and Incentives: Eligibility for our annual target bonus/incentive program based on company and individual performance and goals.
• Ownership Opportunities: As an employee-owned firm, we offer ownership opportunities to all employees at the associate level and above. This is a senior associate-level position.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, 401K retirement savings plan (with company matching), professional development and training, generous PTO, and paid holidays.

Additional Perks:

• Dynamic Culture: Experience a supportive culture where you're an essential and highly valued member of our vibrant team.
• Exciting Projects: Work on thrilling projects from inception to completion and engage directly with some of the most innovative clients globally.
• Continuous Learning: Embrace a culture of perpetual learning where curiosity is celebrated, innovative ideas are welcomed, and your career growth aspirations are fully supported.
• Career Stability: A diversity of market sectors, project types, and geographic locations that help insulate your career from economic ups and downs.
• Career Advancement: Embark on a structured career journey with abundant opportunities for growth and advancement.
• Holistic Compensation: A holistic approach to compensation and benefits that supports your physical and mental health, encourages work-life balance, and empowers your career advancement and financial success.

SSOE - The Best of Both Worlds

At SSOE, our growth trajectory allows us to offer the opportunities normally associated with a large firm while embracing the collaborative and supportive culture often found in smaller firms. As a member of the SSOE team, you'll work on exciting and diverse projects for Fortune 100 clients around the globe, supported by the best technology for the task at hand. You'll experience our employee-centric culture that strives to offer a healthy balance, flexible working arrangements, direct access to leadership at all levels, and a continuous learning mindset. Once you experience the SSOE difference, you'll understand the why behind our metrics:

• 28% - of our employees have been with SSOE for 10 years or more.
• 15% - percentage of employees with tenure exceeding 15 years.
• 99% - our CEO's approval rating on Glassdoor.
• 98% - portion of our clients who say they would recommend us to a colleague.

• Demonstrate leadership by independently planning and executing tasks that involve critical judgment in evaluating and selecting building materials, systems, and design methods.
• Innovate by devising new approaches to problems and developing substantial adaptations and modifications to standard architectural techniques and procedures.
• Independently perform assignments with instructions as to general results expected; Exercises sound judgment to resolve problems but may receive architectural guidance on unusual or complex facility designs.
• Performs specific phases of work on major projects or total architectural responsibility on projects of small or moderate scope in this leadership growth position.
• Lead the drafting effort on projects, coordinate with other disciplines, and ensure the quality of completed drawings in this leadership growth position.
• Knows local, state, and federal building codes, OSHA compliance requirements, and has a working knowledge of site planning, civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering systems, methods, and general details in this leadership growth position.
• Uses knowledge of architectural drafting, detailing, building materials, and construction techniques to finalize project documents for bidding and construction purposes in this leadership growth position.
• Responsible for the final content of architectural project specifications in this leadership growth position.
• Engage in client interactions and contribute to business development initiatives.
• Assists in the integration of all disciplines of the project(s) in this leadership growth position.
• Travel is required.

• Seeking a candidate with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture, an NCARB Certificate, and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience who is eager to take on a leadership role.
• Must possess a valid license to practice architecture.
• Experience with implementing LEED projects with a minimum gold certification preferred.
• Experience with battery plants, pharmaceutical manufacturing, mission-critical facilities (including data centers) is a plus.
• Experience with Revit and AutoCAD is required. Experience with Navisworks is a plus, rendering capability and knowledge of other 3D platforms is a plus.
• Valid driver's license required. May be waived for international assignments.