Senior Interior Architect (5 to 7 years) Datum | Chennai | Full time Own the design, the client and the site: deliver fit-outs from concept to handover, exactly as designed. The role You will own interior fit-outs for workplace, hospitality and retail clients from brief and concept through GFC to site execution and handover. You are the client's main design contact and you run the site with the contractors, so the design intent survives value engineering, variations and deadlines, on budget.

What you will own - Interior design: brief, space planning, concept, materials and FF&E;, through to GFC drawings and BOQ.

- Client coordination: lead presentations and site walkthroughs, get samples and mock-ups signed off, manage change requests and variations against budget.
- Site coordination: supervise execution, run site meetings, answer RFIs, approve shop drawings and samples, control quality and close snags to handover.
- Cost and team: hold the per-sq-ft budget with value-engineering options that protect the design; check juniors' drawings. Must have - Owned the design of 2+ fit-outs from brief and concept to GFC.
- Main design contact for clients:



presentations, walkthroughs, sign-offs, change requests and variations.
- Run 2+ fit-outs on site through handover: supervision, mock-ups, quality, snags.
- Contractor and vendor coordination: site meetings, RFIs, shop drawings and samples, look-ahead programme.
- Coordinated RCPs with MEP; GFC sets, BOQ and specifications.
- NBC Part 4 egress, accessibility, finish flame-spread; holding the budget with VE options. Valuable to have - Corporate workplace, hospitality or retail roll-outs - Landlord / mall fit-out approvals - LEED ID+C or WELL projects - Revit / SketchUp and rendering Qualification: B.Arch / B.Des (Interior); CoA registration preferred. Candidates at 5 years qualify if they have delivered a fit-out on site through handover.

Selection process: 1. Portfolio (a fit-out you designed and delivered) 2. Site case study 3. Interview 4. Reference check. Please include your portfolio when you apply. You can also send your CV and portfolio to [email protected].

Work Location: In person

📌 Senior Interior Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Datum Software
📍 Chennai