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- Sydney at Populous in Chippendale, NSW, AU. This Full time on site position offers excellent opportunities for career growth.

About the Role

As an Architectural 2IC, you will play a key role in supporting the leadership and delivery of a complex city defining project, working closely with Package Leads across either. Planning Façade & Roof Bowl Structural & MEP These roles are focused on ensuring that the different project workstreams are effectively coordinated, integrated and aligned with the overall architectural vision, project requirements and programme. You will work across disciplines to identify issues, facilitate resolution and help maintain momentum across the project. As a key member of the project leadership team, you will provide strong architectural, technical and coordination capability while supporting the various discipline leads in delivering their respective workstreams. You will help connect design, planning, technical and engineering requirements, ensuring that decisions and interfaces are understood and coordinated across the project. This is a collaborative leadership role suited to an experienced graduate or architect who can operate across disciplines, understand the broader project picture and provide the coordination, challenge and support required to bring complex projects together.

About us
at Populous

At Populous, our teams design the places where people love to be together. From stadiums and arenas to convention centres, airports, mixed-use developments, and entertainment precincts, we have delivered many of the world’s most iconic and community-defining projects. With projects spanning Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, we bring global expertise and local insight to every design. Our Sydney team is central to this network,



delivering impactful projects locally and across the region with a focus on sustainability, innovation, and community. Why Populous

We don’t consider ourselves just another architecture and design practice. At Populous, we believe our strength lies in our people and their diversity of experiences. Across APAC, our team represents over 35 nationalities, and we actively celebrate and support this. The opportunity to contribute to projects of global significance in Sydney and across APAC A collaborative international network of experts and design leaders Career development opportunities, including leadership training, mentorship, and global mobility A vibrant workplace culture where creativity, collaboration, and innovation are valued An environment where everyone can be themselves and grow their careers in any direction they want, all while being in an inclusive and supportive workplace Oh, and we’re recognised as one of the best places to work in Australia We’ve been recognised as a Work180 Top 101 Employer for Women two years in a row, winners of two Work180 Workplace awards and recognised as a HRD 5 Star Employer What will you be engaged in?

As an Architectural 2IC, you will: Support the relevant Project Leads in the overall coordination and delivery of complex architectural projects. Act as a key architectural coordination point across the project's Planning, Roof & Facade,



Bowl or Structural and MEP packages and other specialist disciplines. Support discipline leads in coordinating their respective workstreams and ensure key interfaces, dependencies and decisions are identified and managed. Maintain a strong understanding of the overall project to ensure individual discipline outcomes remain aligned with the architectural vision, project objectives and programme. For Planning 2IC
- understand planning requirements, authority matters and planning risks and ensure these are appropriately reflected in the architectural design and project programme. For Façade & Roof 2IC
- support the development, coordination and delivery of façade and roof design solutions, documentation and package requirements throughout the project lifecycle. For Bowl 2IC
- support the development and coordination of seating bowl layouts, sightlines, spectator experience, documentation and package delivery requirements. For Structural and MEP 2IC
- coordinate engineering requirements and resolve interfaces between architectural and engineering systems. Identify potential conflicts, gaps, dependencies and coordination issues across disciplines at an early stage and facilitate their resolution. Support the Project Leads and discipline leads in establishing priorities, resolving issues and maintaining progress against key project milestones. Review architectural and multidisciplinary information to identify issues that may impact design quality, programme, constructability or project outcomes. Facilitate coordination between internal teams, consultants, specialist advisers, contractors and other project stakeholders. Lead or participate in multidisciplinary coordination meetings, design reviews, workshops and project d

📌 Architectural 2IC (Sydney)
🏢 Populous
📍 Sydney