Principal Architect - Health

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your Impact At Jacobs, we’re reimagining the way people live, work, and access care. With a strong pipeline of major health programs across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the broader APAC region, we’re expanding and are seeking several highly experienced Principal Health Architects to join our Sydney‑based team.

This is an opportunity to influence, design, and deliver complex, innovative health environments that improve outcomes for communities across the region. You’ll work with multidisciplinary experts, mentor teams on major programmes, and partner with government and private‑sector clients who are redefining healthcare for the next generation.

As a Principal Health Architect, you will play a pivotal role in the strategy, design, and delivery of large‑scale health projects across APAC. Based in Sydney, you’ll provide strong technical leadership, drive design excellence, and influence project outcomes from initial concept through to delivery.

What you'll do

Lead the planning, design, and development of health projects across APAC, ensuring high‑quality, patient‑centred outcomes.

Guide multidisciplinary design teams and serve as the architectural design authority on major programmes.

Partner with health clients, consultants, and government stakeholders to set project vision, strategy, and design direction.

Provide specialist health architecture expertise across clinical planning, workflow optimisation, operational modelling, and contemporary healthcare design standards.

Support business growth through thought leadership, bid participation, client engagement, and market‑facing activities.

Coach and mentor emerging health architects as part of Jacobs’ strong design community.

Here’s what you'll need You will be a

registered Architect

(or hold an equivalent accreditation) with proven experience delivering complex healthcare and clinical environments. You will be a confident leader with capability across all stages of project development including concept design, master planning, detailed design, and delivery.

If you have experience contributing to major capital works programmes locally or internationally, we want to hear from you!

Benefits & Culture At Jacobs, we’re proud to create a culture where you can grow, belong, and thrive. You’ll join a global community of specialists working at the forefront of health design and innovation.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximise your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits and opportunities, from well‑being benefits to our global giving and volunteering programme, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. Find out more about life at Jacobs here.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We understand that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of diverse perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging.

Our meticulously curated employee benefits support ALL employees throughout every stage of life. From paid parental leave to a lifetime financial allowance for you and your partner to access family‑forming Fertility & IVF treatment, adoption and surrogacy assistance along with menopause and Low T treatment.

We are steadfast in our commitment to wellbeing, with a comprehensive suite of wellbeing resources supporting you physically, emotionally and financially. This is demonstrated in our company being recognised by WGEA for 12 consecutive years as an employer of choice for gender equality along with our industry‑leading GOLD employer status by the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

Cultural Support

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Jacobs aims to provide cultural safety at our interviews. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are invited to nominate a cultural representative to participate on the interview panel; please let your recruiter know in your application.

We value collaboration and believe that in‑person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.

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