Digital Design Innovation – Architect

Role Overview

• This role combines architecture, digital innovation, and system logic to support an evolving industry fit for the future
• The DDI-A will work as part of the Digital Design Innovation team; a focused team of Revit experts, IT specialists, technologists, and architects with design and technical flair, on DDI projects
• The position will be agile across R&D initiatives, developing tools and methods that empower architects, as well as implementation of new tools and technologies on live projects using DfMA to improve project efficiencies and design quality outcomes

Requirements

• Qualified Architect with architectural and technical building experience combined with software competencies
• Strong understanding of the design and building delivery process demonstrated through the delivery of different building typologies through different work stages
• Experience of design team coordination with clients, contractors, consultants and supply chain
• Experience of developing technical information both in specification and drawings at a high competency level
• Multi-skilled individuals with a positive attitude and determination in problem solving, able to demonstrate lateral thinking, logic and analytical skills
• Good oral communication, written and presentation skills to represent HLM externally in a confident and professional manner as an expert voice on DDI and explain concept approaches and complex thinking in a compelling and easy to understand way
• Ability to work as part of a team with different skillsets as well as independently to take forward a project
• Ability to understand non-standard information and experience of or ability to independently research products, suppliers, systems available in the market
• Ability to analyse a range of information and evaluate against the project design and performance criteria
• Experience designing for offsite construction projects and DfMA
• Experience at an advanced level of working in BIM environment Revit
• high-level proficiency and expertise in family creation, parameter/type/visibility settings, nesting, and hosting
• Strong understanding of digital design tools and workflows (e.g. Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Dynamo scripting, or visual programming)
• Demonstrable experience applying digital or computational methods on architectural projects
• Ability to communicate complex digital concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience with scripting (e.g. Python, Dynamo, C#, or similar) or advanced parametric workflows (desirable)
• Knowledge of performance analysis, environmental simulation, or data-driven design (desirable)
• Low code tools (Power Automate, Power Apps, or similar) (desirable)
• Data structuring and validations, database, dashboards (Power BI, excel, basic sql) experience or exposure (desirable)
• Change management process (desirable)
• Autodesk Construction Cloud (desirable)
• Autodesk Inventor (desirable)

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Python
• SQL

Benefits

• Friendly studio environment
• Award-winning lifestyle package
• Commitment to personal development through the HLM Academy
• Sense of ownership and a say in direction