Senior Director Principal Architect

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

Shape the future of healthcare environments at one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. As the Facilities Sr. Director-Principal Architect, you will set the architectural vision for complex campuses, transforming strategic priorities into innovative, patient-centered spaces that support care, research, and growth.  

In this senior leadership role, you will serve as Stanford Health Care's enterprise architectural authority, shaping design strategy, standards, and capital programs across multiple campuses while leading a growing team of architectural professionals. You'll partner with executives, planners, project managers, and clinical stakeholders to deliver complex healthcare environments that advance organizational goals and patient care.   

• Lead architectural vision, design standards, and capital project strategy across the enterprise.  

• Manage and develop a team of architectural professionals, including direct reports.   

• Guide projects through planning, schematic design, design development, and construction   documentation.   

• Bring deep healthcare or complex institutional project experience, executive-level communication skills, and strong regulatory knowledge.   

• Hybrid work environment with onsite engagement and leadership presence as needed.  

The   Facilities Services   division enhances health through leadership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team offers essential non-clinical support 24/7, ensuring safe operations and planning for future needs. We represent the intersection of planning, construction, general services, and facilities operations. Learn more about Facilities Services at:   Facilities Services | Stanford Health Care    

The   Facilities Planning & Design   (FPD) business unit leads the planning, design, and improvement of Stanford Health Care’s spaces to advance excellence in care, innovation, and experience. With expertise across Planning, Design, Land Use & Licensing, Art, Wayfinding, Signage, and Facilities Administration, FPD turns vision into reality, creating functional, compliant, and inspiring environments aligned with Stanford Medicine’s mission.   

If you are interested in joining Stanford Health Care, please read the job description below and apply online.  

  A Brief Overview The Senior Director – Principal Facilities Architect leads enterprise-wide architectural design strategy, governance, and oversight for complex healthcare capital projects and planning initiatives across Stanford Health Care. Serves as the organization's senior architectural authority, ensuring alignment of design solutions with clinical operations, patient experience, regulatory requirements, and long-term system goals. This role provides executive-level leadership across programming, planning, and design phases; directs external consultant teams; and partners with Facilities Planning & Design leadership, clinical stakeholders, and executive governance bodies to deliver high-performing, code-compliant, and future-ready healthcare environments. This role is expected to operate as an enterprise leader with the ability to lead complex operational environments beyond the primary discipline. This includes the capacity to oversee and stabilize additional Facilities Services functional areas when needed, partner effectively across diverse operational domains, and make sound decisions that balance safety, service, financial stewardship, and organizational priorities. The role requires adaptability, systems thinking, and readiness to assume broader operational accountability in support of evolving business needs. This role may be required to provide senior-level representation of the Business Unit or division in internal and external forums to ensure continuity of leadership when Facilities Services senior leadership is not in attendance. This role will be hybrid minimum 2 days a week. Regardless, the expectation will be for this role to be able to be on-site any day of the week as needed during regular work hours.

Locations Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Establish and uphold enterprise architectural design standards, guidelines, and best practices across all healthcare projects • Provide oversight for programming, planning, and design from concept through construction • Ensure alignment with clinical workflows, patient safety, infection prevention, and evidence-based design principles • Approve key design deliverables (programs, test fits, design packages) and manage design risk • Serve as the primary architectural representative for SHC with external architects, engineers, and consultants • Define scope, expectations, and performance standards for design teams • Lead design reviews, quality assurance (QA)/quality control (QC) processes, and ensure consistency across projects and campuses • Resolve complex design, coordination, and constructability issues • Support system-wide master planning, campus planning, and capital programming initiatives • Translate enterprise growth, operational, and financial goals into facility and design strategies • Partner with Finance, Operations, and Capital Projects to align scope, phasing, budgets, and delivery • Facilitate alignment across clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders • Present planning and design strategies, options, and recommendations to leadership and governance bodies • Drive consensus and decision-making within complex, multi-stakeholder environments • Oversee multiple large, complex, and high-risk healthcare projects simultaneously • Ensure adherence to scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations • Collaborate with construction teams to maintain design intent through delivery • Support value engi

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