Senior Designer/Architect

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Henning Larsen in Sydney seeks a Senior Designer/Architect for a full-time onsite role shaping city-scale projects, reporting to the Regional Director and collaborating with a global studio network. You’ll bring at least five years post-graduate experience, proven success in competitions and early design development, and strong conceptual plus technical design skills with advanced proficiency in Rhino, Revit, Enscape and Adobe. The role centers on front-end design, developing clear narratives, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, and integrating sustainability within Australian planning frameworks. To apply, curate a portfolio that emphasizes competitions, feasibility studies, and early design outcomes, and craft a cover note that demonstrates leadership, collaboration, and alignment with our human-centric, non-hierarchical culture.

Company Description

Henning Larsen is a global design community operating in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. Founded in Copenhagen in 1959, the studio has offices in nine countries and in 2023, opened our newest studio in Sydney, Australia.  

Job Description

After successfully winning multiple city-shaping projects across the country, we are looking for a talented Senior Designer/Architect to join our Sydney studio, working on a range of major city-shaping projects and contributing to our long-term growth.

Reporting to the Regional Director and supporting the Australian Design Director you will work on billable projects within our practice, supporting business critical proposals and marketing efforts.  You will be working with a local team of professionals delivering innovative and high quality design solutions to our clients with the support of a team of international experts.

An integral member of our Sydney team, you will be part of a company working on projects of all scales and typologies. From cultural projects and universities to masterplans and headquarters, you will join an organisation with a creative design culture and long history of delivering award-winning, human-centric architecture.

We are looking for an experienced designer who is passionate about innovative, high-quality architecture across both conceptual and detailed resolution. The successful candidate will lead and contribute to competition entries, feasibility studies, and early design development, translating strategic project ambitions into sustainable and impactful architectural outcomes.

Your primary focus will be at the front end of projects, shaping and communicating clear design narratives while collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams across our global network.

Qualifications

This position is suited to a motivated architect or senior designer with strong conceptual capability and proven experience in competitions and early-phase project development. The successful candidate will lead and contribute to competition entries, feasibility studies, and early design development, translating strategic project ambitions into sustainable and impactful architectural outcomes.

Proven experience in technical development and delivery of projects will be seen as an added advantage.

Required Experience and Skills:

•    Minimum 5 years post-graduate professional experience in architecture

•    Demonstrated experience delivering competition and early-stage design projects

•    Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills

•    Strong conceptual and technical design skills, with the ability to produce design options both independently and collaboratively

•    Strong conceptual and spatial design ability

•    Advanced proficiency in Rhino, Revit, Enscape and Adobe

•    Ability to communicate ideas clearly through drawing, 3D modelling and verbal presentation

•    Strong understanding of Australian planning frameworks and statutory processes

•    Experience integrating environmental and sustainability strategies into early design phases

You are a people person who effectively priorities and manages performance.  You are able to coordinate work with others, maintaining a focus on the quality of the end product. You are able to effectively apply your professional skills and take initiative to improve the way we work.  You participate actively in team meetings/discussions.

Additional Information

About Henning Larsen

Henning Larsen is an international design studio with strong Nordic roots and values at the core of our practice. We foster a creative, non-hierarchical culture that supports collaboration, encourages initiative, and provides the freedom to test new ideas and perspectives. This environment, together with a commitment to continuous learning, strengthens both individual and collective capability across design and service.

With approximately 700 colleagues working internationally, we are driven by an ambition to pioneer sustainable change through our work. Our projects aim to inspire and innovate, advancing not only best practice but next practice. We combine design excellence with expertise in research, strategy, and technical innovation to deliver rigorous, forward-looking solutions.

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Henning Larsen Values

At Henning Larsen, people are at the heart of everything we do.  Henning Larsen is committed to all employees and their need to develop through leadership, investment in people and equal opportunities.  We provide career opportunities, training and tools needed for you to develop and thrive. 

Access to a world of knowledge

We believe that creativity in design thinking is propelled through an active use of data and knowledge in the design process. You will collaborate with experts that provide world leading technical insight, data, and knowledge across engineering and socio-economic disciplines. Together, we create visionary buildings and spaces that offer tangible solutions to some of the most demanding challenges facing cities and communities around the globe