Senior Architect / Associate

The Role

We are looking for an experienced architect at Senior level, with excellent design, communication and project delivery skills, who wants a new challenge and the chance to move into studio leadership.

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

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You Will:

• Lead the design and delivery of complex projects across our hospitality, heritage, regeneration and retrofit sectors, from concept through planning and technical design to construction.
• Act as project lead on key commissions, directing multidisciplinary consultant teams where Rejen is Lead Consultant.
• Set and uphold design, technical and delivery standards, mentoring architects and technologists in the studio.
• Shape design direction, resourcing, and improvements to 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.

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Who We Are Looking For

Essential:

• ARB and/or RIAI registered (RIBA membership welcome), with at least 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
• Excellent design ability, shown through a strong portfolio.
• Clear evidence of delivery: leading high-quality projects from planning through technical design to completion on site.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence presenting to clients, leading design teams and mentoring others.
• High proficiency in AutoCAD, good working knowledge of Revit, and enthusiasm for adopting new AI tools to improve workflows across the practice.
• Commercial awareness, sound judgement and the confidence to take responsibility.
• A real interest in adaptive reuse, conservation and new build in sensitive and historic settings.
• A 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.

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About Rejen Architects

Rejen Architects is a specialist practice based in Belfast, working across hospitality, heritage, regeneration and retrofit. From our studio in the Cathedral Quarter, we are delivering a strong pipeline of premium heritage and hospitality projects across Northern Ireland, alongside a growing portfolio of retrofit and adaptive reuse work in Dublin and the wider Republic of Ireland. Our work is design-led, commercially astute and grounded in technical excellence. 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 healthier, more 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. We design for today while respecting the past and shaping the future, creating environments that uplift, inspire and enrich lives with the least harm to the planet.

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Why Join Rejen?

• Impact and reward: a competitive salary plus performance-related bonus scheme, and a real chance to make an impact and be rewarded for it.
• Growth and progression: an ambitious, growing practice with a clear route into studio leadership.
• Specialist work: distinctive hospitality, heritage, regeneration and retrofit projects that are never repetitive or formulaic.
• Design quality first: a studio culture built on collaboration, design excellence and technical rigour, with a bit of craic along the way.
• Purpose: every place and building has a story, and you will help write its next chapter.
• A great place to work: our studio is in the heart of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, surrounded by culture, creativity and energy.

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Coming Home?

If you are based in GB or ROI and thinking about moving to Northern Ireland, we can offer relocation support to the right long-term candidate.

How to Apply

Please send your CV, a PDF portfolio (max 12 pages) and a short cover letter to:

studio@rejenarchitects.com

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Join us in breathing new life into buildings and places.

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