{"id":3978907,"url":"https://alion.io/job/jev-consulting-head-integrated-designs-development-solution-architect","title":"Head, Integrated Designs & Development Solution (Architect)","company":{"id":4528544,"name":"JEV Consulting","domain":"jevconsulting.com.ng","url":"https://alion.io/company/jev-consulting","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Lagos, Nigeria"],"countries":["NG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"AutoCAD","optional":false},{"name":"Miro","optional":false},{"name":"Mirror","optional":false},{"name":"Trello","optional":false},{"name":"Unity","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T14:52:18Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T14:52:18Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Join us if \n\n You are self-driven and don’t require micromanagement\n\n You see responsibilities, not just tasks or jobs\n\n You are passionate about delivering exceptional value\n\n You demonstrate both humility in failures (“Mirror”) and credit-sharing in successes (“Window”)\n\n You align with our core values of Commitment, Faith, Positive Attitude, Innovation, Teamwork, and Integrity\n\nSummary\n\n We are looking for a Head, Integrated Design and Development Solutions (HIDDS) who will spearhead the establishment and growth of the Integrated Design and Development Solutions Strategic\n\n Business Unit (IDDS-SBU) at GroupCo. This role blends strategic business development with architectural and design leadership, requiring a visionary professional capable of\n\n Conceptualizing, designing, and delivering unique lifestyle communities and real estate products. These initiatives will span internal developments for GroupCo as well as external engagements for third-party clients.\n\n The HIDDS will serve as the accountable business owner for all GroupCo-led development projects, ensuring that each initiative is conceptually sound, architecturally innovative, commercially viable, and positioned for profitable sale. This includes full responsibility for conceiving, designing, and delivering GroupCo’s flagship residential offerings under the Citi-Dream Homes brand.\n\n The HIDDS will ensure that all creative, architectural, and development activities deliver unique customer-driven value solutions throughout the dream home and lifestyle value chain and across our customers’ lifecycles — from ideation and land acquisition through construction, handover, and long-term usability.\n\n The role also calls for strong leadership in innovation, digital transformation (e.g., BIM, virtual walkthroughs, AI-assisted design), and environmentally responsible practices. In addition, the HIDDS is expected to actively leverage personal branding and thought leadership to position the IDDS-SBU as a visible and influential player across GroupCo and within the broader real estate and design ecosystem\n\nResponsibilities\n\nStrategic Setup and Development:\n\n Establish the SBU: Lead the setup of the Integrated Design and Development Solutions SBU, including defining its structure, offerings, and strategic plan.\n\n Strategic Planning: Develop and implement the SBU’s strategic plan, ensuring alignment with GroupCo's overall mission and business objectives.\n\n Policy Development: Create policies, processes, and best practices to enhance operational efficiency and foster innovation within the SBU.\n\n Commercial Ownership and Strategic Accountability: Serve as the commercial owner of GroupCo’s residential and mixed-use development projects, with responsibility for aligning architectural strategy, financial modeling, and delivery planning to ensure long-term market viability and profitable disposition.\n\n Citi-Dream Homes Ownership: Serve as the lead architect and commercial steward for all Citi-Dream Homes projects, ensuring alignment with brand standards, customer aspirations, and market positioning across all GroupCo communities.\n\n Growth Opportunities: Identify and seize opportunities for expanding services to third-party clients beyond GroupCo’s estates, driving business growth and market reach.\n\n Digital Transformation: Drive innovation and digital transformation initiatives within the SBU to improve service delivery and competitive advantage.\n\nLeadership and Team Building:\n\n Team Recruitment and Development: Build and mentor a high-performing multidisciplinary team (e.g., architects, designers, business development professionals).\n\n Culture Building: Promote a culture of collaboration, creativity, accountability, and continuous improvement aligned with GroupCo’s values.\n\n Performance Management: Establish performance expectations, provide coaching and mentoring, and conduct regular team evaluations.\n\n Capacity Building: Design and implement development plans to build internal capacity and leadership pipeline.\n\nLand Acquisition:\n\n Site Identification: Collaborate with the Head of Sales & CRM SBU to evaluate land needs in attractive.\n\n Land Negotiations: Negotiate and secure suitable land parcels based on recommended specifications.\n\n Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with landowners, brokers, and government officials.\n\nArchitectural Design and Conceptualization:\n\n Visionary Design: Lead the architectural visioning and conceptual design of unique lifestyle communities and dream homes.\n\n Smart Living Solutions: Incorporate modularity, expandability, and digital integration in all design work.\n\n Sustainability Focus: Champion sustainable and culturally sensitive architectural practices.\n\n Third-Party Projects: Pursue external architectural consultancy engagements and develop compelling design proposals.\n\nCollaboration and Project Viability:\n\n Internal Engagement: Work with SBUs to assess financial viability and bankability of projects and facilitate early design-stage input from other SBUs to ensure feasibility and downstream coordination”\n\n Professional Network: Coordinate with external professionals (architects, engineers, etc.) to ensure successful execution.\n\n Advisory Services: Promote feasibility and concept development services to third-party clients.\n\nDesign Coordination:\n\n Technical Drawings: Oversee the production of technical drawings in collaboration with engineers.\n\n Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with building codes, safety standards, and environmental guidelines.\n\nPermits and Regulatory Compliance:\n\n Entitlement Management: Navigate entitlement processes and development approvals.\n\n Zoning and Permits: Ensure zoning, environmental, and permit compliance before project execution.\n\n Stakeholder Relations: Maintain working relationships with local authorities and regulatory agencies.\n\nSite Possession and Preparation:\n\n Site Possession: Take formal possession of acquired or allocated development sites, ensuring that all legal, contractual, and administrative requirements are fulfilled.\n\n Comprehensive Site Evaluation: Conduct detailed site evaluations to assess topography, soil conditions, environmental constraints, access roads, existing vegetation, and other physical factors that may influence project planning and execution.\n\n Challenge Identification and Resolution: Identify potential development challenges such as drainage issues, utility access limitations, and zoning constraints. Collaborate with internal SBUs and external consultants to resolve them early in the project lifecycle.\n\n Site Preparation Planning: Develop and approve comprehensive site preparation plans in coordination with architects, civil engineers, and environmental consultants. Plans should include clearing, grading, soil stabilization, and drainage provisions.\n\n Execution of Site Preparation: Oversee the implementation of all site preparation activities, including:\n\n Clearing vegetation, trees, and debris; demolishing any existing structures or obstructions where necessary\n\n Managing grading activities to shape the site for optimal construction and ensure proper water runoff and foundation stability\n\n Regulatory and Environmental Compliance: Ensure all site prep work complies with applicable environmental laws, health and safety regulations, and local construction codes.\n\n Transition Coordination: Work closely with the Construction & Project Management SBU (CPM-SBU) to ensure a seamless transition from site readiness to commencement of construction.\n\nProject Monitoring and Quality Assurance:\n\n Monitoring Systems: Establish and implement robust systems to track the progress and quality of all projects executed by the Construction and Project Management SBU (CPM-SBU), including both those conceptualized by the SBU and those commissioned by third-party clients.\n\n Timeline and Milestone Planning: Collaborate with the CPM-SBU to define and review project timelines, milestone schedules, and quality benchmarks at the planning and kickoff stages.\n\n Progress Tracking: Monitor implementation progress against agreed timelines and budgets, ensuring proactive identification and resolution of delays or deviations.\n\n Project Review Coordination: Participate in regular project review and site coordination meetings with the CPM-SBU and relevant stakeholders to assess progress, troubleshoot issues, and support course corrections as needed.\n\n Quality Standards Enforcement: Define, document, and enforce quality standards for materials, workmanship, and finishing across all projects, ensuring alignment with GroupCo’s brand promise and professional standards.\n\n Site Inspections: Conduct periodic site inspections (independently and jointly with CPM-SBU teams) to verify adherence to design specifications, safety protocols, and regulatory compliance.\n\n Continuous Improvement: Use feedback and lessons learned from completed projects to improve future planning, design, and execution processes.\n\nLandscape and Interior Design:\n\n Design Leadership: Guide the visioning and integration of landscape and interior design across all SBU developments.\n\n Sustainability and Culture: Ensure designs reflect sustainability goals, cultural relevance, and functional harmony.\n\n Collaboration: Collaborate with landscape architects, interior designers, and the CPM-SBU to ensure seamless design implementation.\n\n Third-Party Contracts: Actively pursue and manage third-party contracts for landscape and interior design services.\n\nBusiness Development for External Clients:\n\n Service Expansion: Identify and pursue third-party opportunities for architectural design, landscape and interior design, site feasibility studies, and development consulting.\n\n Client Engagement: Represent the SBU in engagements with private developers, corporate clients, and other stakeholders.\n\n Proposal Management: Develop service proposals, deliver client presentations, and negotiate contracts.\n\n Relationship Management: Build and maintain long-term client relationships that support repeat business and referrals.\n\n Internal Coordination: Collaborate with internal teams to package, price, and deliver competitive service offerings.\n\n Showcasing Capabilities: Showcase SBU capabilities through networking, industry events, and digital platforms.\n\nSBU Marketing with Personal Brand:\n\n Thought Leadership: Leverage personal brand and thought leadership to position the SBU as a top-tier provider of creative and development services.\n\n Digital Presence: Use social media, content creation, and public speaking to enhance SBU visibility.\n\n Networking: Actively generate leads through events, industry forums, and professional networks.\n\nStakeholder Engagement:\n\n Internal Relations: Serve as the primary liaison with other SBUs, executive leadership, and support teams to ensure project success.\n\n External Relations: Build strategic relationships with external consultants, regulatory agencies, clients, and service providers.\n\n Advocacy: Represent the SBU's interests in key discussions, negotiations, and decision-making forums.\n\nFinancial Oversight:\n\n Budgeting: Develop and manage the SBU's annual budget, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational priorities.\n\n Performance Monitoring: Track financial performance indicators such as revenue growth, cost efficiency, and profitability.\n\n Financial Strategy: Adjust business strategies based on financial data to improve margins and operational sustainability.\n\n Profitability and Financial Alignment: Ensure that project designs, budgets, and delivery strategies are structured to meet GroupCo’s financial targets, particularly for developments intended for profitable sale to external buyers or investors.\n\nReporting and Analysis:\n\n Performance Reporting: Prepare and submit regular activity reports, financial updates, and project reviews for management.\n\n Operational Analysis: Use operational data and market intelligence to identify challenges, trends, and opportunities.\n\n C...","description_format":"text","description_chars":14216,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Architecture"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T18:54:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring 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