Senior Architect

Architectural Technical Lead – Data Centres

📍 Singapore

Lead Architecture and Fire Safety design across a major data centre campus in Singapore — from buildings and technical yards through to the wider site.

This is a senior technical role for an architect who can challenge A/E consultants, peer-review complex designs and turn technical issues into clear, buildable decisions.

About the role

You’ll provide technical leadership across Architecture and Fire Safety , working with design consultants, engineers, project managers, construction managers and contractors.

The focus is design assurance: ensuring proposals meet global standards, work in the local Singapore environment, make commercial sense and can be delivered without unnecessary programme or construction risk.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical review of architectural and fire safety designs across the data centre campus.
• Review consultant drawings, specifications, calculations, models and design documentation.
• Challenge designs against global standards, regional suitability, cost, programme and business case .
• Identify value-engineering and design optimisation opportunities.
• Resolve technical comments and support design teams through stage-gate approvals.
• Escalate design issues with potential programme impact.
• Produce design review reports, impact assessments and Engineering Bulletins for priority issues.
• Update construction specifications based on site feedback.
• Develop conceptual CAD/BIM sketches for spatial and dimensional validation.
• Present technical findings, options and recommendations to internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong architectural technical/design background on large, complex construction projects .
• Proven experience reviewing and coordinating multidisciplinary consultant design packages.
• Strong understanding of fire safety / life safety design and its integration with architectural design.
• Experience reviewing drawings, specifications, BIM models and technical submissions.
• Able to challenge consultants constructively and make clear technical recommendations.
• Comfortable working across design, construction, commercial and programme considerations.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical reporting capability.

Desirable background

• Data centres, mission-critical facilities or other technically intensive buildings.
• Hyperscale, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, advanced manufacturing or major infrastructure environments.
• BIM360 / Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• CAD and BIM authoring/review.
• Experience working with international design standards alongside Singapore/local requirements.

Best-Fit Candidates / Useful Matching Context

Likely backgrounds include data centre designers, client-side design teams, architectural consultancies and multidisciplinary engineering firms delivering mission-critical or complex technical facilities.

Relevant titles may include Architectural Technical Lead, Lead Architect, Design Architect, Technical Architect, Architectural Design Manager, Senior Architect, Mission Critical Architect or Data Centre Architect .

Strong adjacent sectors include mission critical, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, advanced manufacturing, laboratories and major infrastructure .

This vacancy is open to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents only. Employment-pass sponsorship is not available.