Woods Bagot
Group Design Technology Specialist
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Group Design Technology Specialist
About Woods Bagot – Architecture for Worlds Ahead
We design places that meet the challenges and opportunities of our rapidly changing world. Our commitment to exploration, impact, and community creates enduring, forward-thinking outcomes, unlocking humanity’s highest potential. With a global design culture devoted to creativity, resilience, and purpose, we ensure every project contributes to our client’s vision, inspiring future generations.
Woods Bagot is part of the 7C Network. The 7C Network is an integrated network of design and architecture companies providing "Total Place Design", a holistic approach to creating transformative environments. It combines capabilities from its constituent brands – including Woods Bagot, ERA-co, Impact Futures, and Customs Bureau – to offer services in placemaking, sustainability, architecture and interior design, and luxury concepts.
About the Role
The Group Design Technology Specialist role sits within 7C’s global Design Technology team, focused on connecting design practice with technology capability at scale. This role operates at the intersection of studio-led design delivery and group-level technology development.
Working in close collaboration with both studio-level DT staff and the global team, you will provide a clear line of sight between day-to-day project delivery and the evolution of global design technology platforms, tools, and workflows. You will play an essential role in ensuring technology initiatives are informed by real practice needs, ensuring they are practical, relevant, and effectively adopted across the studio network.
With a strong emphasis on translation, validation, and enablement, this role contributes to shaping global design technology strategy by gaining insights from across the practice, ensuring global DT initiatives have a meaningful impact on the work of our project teams.
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Key Areas of Responsibility
- Engage with studio Design Technology teams to understand:
- Studio priorities
- Risks
- Capability needs
- Identify cross-studio trends and recurring issues.
- Act as a conduit between studios and the global Design Technology team, ensuring insights inform global strategy and initiatives.
- Validate global tools, workflows, and standards against real project conditions, and support pilots and phased rollouts where necessary.
- Contribute to:
- Global initiatives (e.g., training agendas, workflow guidance, best practice documentation, shared knowledge resources)
- Consistent adoption of design technology across studios, focusing on long-term capability over ongoing support
- Maintain strong practical expertise in relevant design technologies to support informed judgement and quality improvement.
- Provide targeted expert intervention on critical projects in exceptional circumstances, capturing learning and feeding it back for practice-wide improvement.
- Contribute to nominated strategic initiatives, communities of practice, and multi-studio collaboration strengthens design technology capability across 7C.
- Represent 7C in the wider industry by attending and speaking at external events.
About You
You thrive at the intersection of design, technology, and delivery, with the ability to influence outcomes autonomously. You can build credibility with Studio Leaders and designers, while collaboratively engaging with highly technical specialists.
You think systemically, approach ambiguous problems with structure, and prioritise outcomes and adoption over mere tool implementation. You know when to dive deep technically and when to step back to focus on patterns, priorities, and strategic implications.
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Required Experience and Skills
- 7 years of experience working in design technology roles within an architectural or multidisciplinary design practice, including involvement in complex or large-scale projects.
- Strong practical knowledge of:
- Digital project delivery practices
- Standards and techniques applied in live project environments
- Advanced hands-on capability in one or more core BIM and design technology platforms, such as:
- Autodesk Revit
- Navisworks
- Rhino
- Grasshopper
- Dynamo (or relevant tools for 7C workflows)
- Demonstrated ability to develop flexible and agile modeling or workflow solutions supporting:
- Iterative design
- Project delivery processes
- Experience translating design and project needs into clear requirements for specialist teams, including:
- Developers
- Computational designers
- Platform and content teams
- Experience supporting rollouts, adoption, or quality assurance of:
- Tools, workflows
- Standards or methodologies, at studio or practice scale
- Ability to:
- Operate with high autonomy
- Manage competing priorities
- Exercise sound judgement in complex or ambiguous situations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to:
- Document workflows
- Articulate technical concepts clearly
- Work effectively across both design and technology audiences
- Ability to:
- Communicate effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders
- Understand and align with their perspectives and motivations.
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