Architect - Multi-Residential & Commercial Documentation | Glen Iris

Glen Iris, Melbourne VIC | Full Time | Architecture & Design

CKA Studio is an architecture, interiors and town planning practice in Glen Iris, working across apartment, mixed-use and commercial development in Melbourne. We take projects from feasibility and planning approval through to construction issue and completion.

Planning, architecture and interiors are part of the same studio, so our documentation is shaped by the planning strategy behind it rather than inheriting it second-hand.

We are expanding our 2026 pipeline and looking for an architect to take ownership of delivery on multi-storey projects.

You will lead documentation packages on multi-storey buildings from planning through to construction issue and site, running consultant coordination and responding to authority and certifier requirements.

This is a role with real ownership. You will not be documenting someone else's package to someone else's brief.

Demonstrated Australian documentation experience on at least one of the following:

• Apartments (Class 2)

• Offices and commercial (Class 5 / 6)

• Hotels and serviced apartments (Class 3)

• Student accommodation

• Aged care and seniors living (Class 9c)

• Childcare and early learning (Class 9b)

Applications where experience is limited to single dwellings, dual occupancies, townhouse developments, interior fitouts or residential alterations will not progress. This work involves fire engineering, essential services coordination and multi-consultant documentation, and the role is not structured to support that transition.

You should also have worked personally on at least two of: a building permit set, a construction-issue (IFC) package, a facade or weatherproofing package, a tender or pricing package, a planning or secondary consent submission, or construction-stage services including RFIs, shop drawing review and site inspections. Tell us which, and on which projects.

• Three or more years post-graduate in an Australian practice, concentrated on the buildings above. We weight typology depth over years served.

• ARBV registration, or on the pathway. We will support the remainder, including study time and examination costs.

• M.Arch or equivalent.

• Advanced Revit: model setup, families, sheet management and consultant model coordination.

• Working knowledge of the NCC, Australian Standards and Victorian planning processes.

Experience gained at a single practice is not a disadvantage. We are interested in what you have delivered.

Useful, not essential: Enscape, Lumion or Twinmotion; Rhino; AutoCAD; experience under design and construct or novated contracts.

• Project ownership from day one, on buildings of genuine complexity

• A Melbourne pipeline of apartment, mixed-use and commercial work

• Planning and interiors in the same studio, so you see the whole project

• Support toward ARBV registration

• Salary matched to demonstrated delivery capability, reviewed annually

• Glen Iris studio, on-site parking, close to Glen Iris and Gardiner stations

Send your CV and portfolio (PDF, max 20MB) through Seek.

Your portfolio must include at least one documentation extract - plans, sections or details - from a project in the building types above. Note which parts you personally authored, and the building class and storey count. Portfolios showing renders and concept imagery only will not be shortlisted.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applicants must hold unrestricted right to work in Australia and be currently residing in Australia.