Senior Public Transportation Architect

Overall Summary

The Senior Public Transportation Architect serves as a senior technical delivery professional responsible for the planning, design, and multidisciplinary coordination of complex transit infrastructure and public transportation facility projects. The role is intended for an experienced engineer-architect who can lead technical workstreams, coordinate across disciplines, support client and stakeholder discussions, and deliver practical, sustainable, and operationally effective transit facilities.

The role supports projects such as transit stations, bus rapid transit facilities, multimodal transportation hubs, maintenance and operations facilities, mobility hubs, park-and-ride facilities, passenger transfer facilities, and fleet electrification infrastructure. The position is focused on technical excellence, project delivery, design integration, quality, and mentoring within multidisciplinary transit infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead planning, programming, architectural design, and construction support for transit stations, multimodal hubs, maintenance facilities, BRT facilities, operations centers, and other transportation infrastructure projects.

Serve as Lead Architect, Design Lead, or Discipline Lead for complex transit infrastructure assignments, ensuring that architectural deliverables are coordinated, technically sound, and aligned with project requirements.

Coordinate and integrate architectural solutions with civil, structural, geotechnical, MEP, rail systems, communications, traction power, transportation planning, operations, safety, security, sustainability, and digital delivery disciplines.

Develop facility concepts that balance passenger experience, operational efficiency, accessibility, safety, maintainability, resiliency, sustainability, lifecycle performance, and future expansion needs.

Prepare, review, and coordinate design criteria, reports, technical memoranda, drawings, specifications, BIM models, and contract documents across project phases.

Support project managers with scope management, schedule coordination, budget awareness, resource planning, risk reviews, and quality assurance for architectural and facility-related tasks.

Participate in interdisciplinary design reviews, constructability reviews, value engineering sessions, and technical quality reviews to improve project outcomes.

Interface with client teams to present design concepts, resolve technical issues, and support approvals.

Support construction-phase services including responding to RFIs, reviewing submittals, and coordinating design clarifications.

Promote BIM coordination, digital delivery workflows, and innovative approaches to improve quality, coordination, and delivery efficiency.

Mentor architects, engineers, designers, and BIM/modeling staff.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or related engineering field from an accredited institution.

12+ years of relevant experience in architecture, transportation facilities, transit infrastructure, or complex public infrastructure projects.

Minimum 8 years of experience delivering rail, metro, BRT, bus, or multimodal transportation facility projects.

Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary design teams and coordinating with civil, structural, MEP, systems, operations, safety, and sustainability disciplines.

Experience supporting project delivery through multiple phases, including planning, feasibility, conceptual design, detailed design, procurement support, and construction support.

Strong working knowledge of accessibility requirements, sustainable design principles, and public infrastructure design requirements.

Strong communication, coordination, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Transportation Planning, or a related field.

Experience with transit stations, rail/metro facilities, BRT facilities, multimodal hubs, maintenance and storage facilities, operations centers, passenger facilities, and fleet electrification infrastructure.

Experience integrating architecture with rail systems, transit operations, maintenance requirements, transportation engineering, and public realm design.

Experience with Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, CM/GC, or other alternative delivery methods.

Proficiency with BIM, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and digital delivery workflows.

Experience delivering large-scale transit infrastructure projects for North American, Middle East, or other international clients.