Senior Architect / Associate

We are seeking an experienced architect at Senior or Associate level, with excellent design, communication and project delivery skills, who is looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to move into a studio leadership role.

Working closely with the Director, you will lead key projects, raise design quality across the studio and play a central part in the continued growth of the practice. For the right candidate, this role offers a clear pathway to Associate.

You will:

• Lead the design and delivery of complex projects across our hospitality, heritage, regeneration and retrofit sectors, from concept through planning, technical design and construction.

• Act as project lead on key commissions, directing multi-disciplinary consultant teams where Rejen is Lead Consultant.

• Set and uphold design, technical and delivery standards, mentoring architects and technologists within the studio.

• Work closely with the Director, contributing to design direction, resourcing and improving studio operations and workflows.

• Represent Rejen with clients, consultants, planning authorities and statutory bodies.

• Contribute to business development, bids and thought leadership as the practice grows.

Who We’re Looking For

Essential:

• ARB, RIBA and/or RIAI registered, with a minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience.

• Excellent design ability, demonstrated through a strong portfolio.

• Clear evidence of delivery – leading high quality projects from planning through technical design to completion on site.

• Excellent communication skills – confident presenting to clients, leading design teams and mentoring others.

• Highly proficient across Autocad, good working knowledge of Revit & enthusiastic adopter of evolving AI applications to optimise workflows across all parts of practice.

• Commercial awareness, sound judgement and the confidence to take responsibility.

• A genuine interest in adaptive reuse, conservation and new build in sensitive and historic locations.

• Full driving licence and willingness to travel across Ireland.

Highly desirable:

• Conservation accreditation (training can be offered to the right candidate).

• Experience of BCAR and of working on projects in the Republic of Ireland.

Desirable:

• Experience of hospitality, heritage or adaptive reuse projects.

About Rejen Architects

Rejen Architects is a Belfast-based specialist practice working across hospitality, heritage, regeneration and retrofit. From our studio in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, we are delivering a strong pipeline of premium heritage and hospitality projects across the north, alongside a growing portfolio of retrofit and adaptive reuse work in Dublin and the Republic of Ireland. Our work is design-led, commercially astute and grounded in technical excellence, and we regularly act as Lead Consultant and Architectural Design Lead for leading hospitality operators, private developers and public bodies.

Our purpose is to create a more healthy, vibrant and sustainable world by breathing new life into old buildings and places. Through bold yet sensitive design, we reimagine, repurpose and regenerate buildings and places – designing for today while respecting the past and shaping the future, and creating environments that uplift, inspire and enrich lives with least harm to the planet.

Why Join Rejen?

• Competitive salary + performance related bonus scheme

• Growth and progression: an ambitious, growing practice with a clear route into studio leadership

• Responsibility and influence: Genuine opportunity to make an impact, grow and be rewarded

• Specialist work: distinctive hospitality, heritage, regeneration and retrofit projects – never repetitive or formulaic.

• Design quality first: a studio culture built on collaborative working, design excellence, technical rigour and having a bit of craic along the way

• Purpose: every place and building has a story – you will help us contribute a meaningful next chapter..

• A great place to work: our studio sits in the heart of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, surrounded by culture, creativity and energy.

Coming home? if you are based in GB or ROI and considering a move to Northern Ireland, we can offer relocation support for the right long-term candidate.

How to Apply

Please send your CV, max 12 page pdf portfolio and a short cover letter to:

studio@rejenarchitects.com

Join us in breathing new life into buildings and places.