IOD SharePoint Application Development Lead

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

 

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

 

Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Software Architect.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates as a multi-domain subject matter expert (e.g., Security, Data) with industry depth, defines enterprise patterns, and guides adoption across solutions.

• Work & Complexity: Plans and directs the most complex, cross-functional, mission-critical initiatives, and evaluates industry standards to drive innovation and intellectual property.

• Quality & Independence: Acts independently with organization-wide influence, sets visionary bars for quality, reliability, and delivery practices.

• Teamwork & Communication: Models company values, mentors across the organization, builds formal networks with decision makers, and serves as an external spokesperson.

• Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives on strategy, steers long-range planning and new lines of business, and delivers thought-leading presentations at the highest technical level.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a IOD SharePoint Application Development Lead.

Introduction

The SharePoint Application Development Lead will oversee the modernization, migration, and redevelopment of seven SharePoint-based applications as the program transitions from SharePoint Server SE to SharePoint Online. Several applications contain custom JavaScript/React components and API integrations that must be updated, rebuilt, or re-architected in the cloud environment.

This individual will lead technical design, application rebuilds, and integration patterns while guiding a small development team (including one dedicated coder) and managing client stakeholders. A core responsibility of the role is rethinking information architecture, leveraging modern SharePoint Online capabilities, and evaluating opportunities to incorporate Microsoft 365 Power Platform components (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse).

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the end-to-end redevelopment and migration of seven legacy SharePoint applications to SharePoint Online.

• Evaluate and redesign information architecture to align with modern SharePoint Online design patterns and user experience standards.

• Oversee the architecture, design, and implementation of custom components, including React-based interfaces and API-driven integrations.

• Provide project and product leadership, managing priorities, schedules, and expectations across internal teams and client stakeholders.

• Assess modernization options and recommend use of Power Platform components where appropriate (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse).

• Ensure solutions follow Microsoft 365 best practices, governance, security standards, and modern cloud development patterns.

• Translate UI/UX concepts into functional, scalable applications.

• Write clean, well-structured, maintainable code and review code produced by team members.

• Conduct testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to ensure reliable functionality after migration.

• Document architectures, configurations, workflows, and application logic to support long-term maintenance.

• Stay current on emerging technologies, SharePoint Online capabilities, Power Platform enhancements, and enterprise integration patterns.

Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements

Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance

Required For This Opportunity

• Minimum 8 years of experience in web application or SharePoint development

• Strong experience with SharePoint Online and SharePoint SE, including migration or modernization work

• Experience with Microsoft 365 Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse)

• Proficiency in modern front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React

• Familiarity with building and consuming APIs (REST required; RPC optional)

• Experience integrating custom components with enterprise systems via APIs

• Strong knowledge of software development best practices, source control, testing, and documentation

• Ability to redesign information architecture and translate UX wireframes into functional interfaces

• Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated success interacting with program leadership and stakeholders

• Experience providing technical direction to junior developers or small teams

• Strong debugging, problem‑solving, and analytical skills

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with Git or other version control systems

• Knowledge of cloud governance, workflows, and secure application patterns within Microsoft 365

• Understanding of modern authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, Graph API)

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

• Experience with database integration or Dataverse modeling

• Familiarity with modern web development frameworks and libraries beyond React

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $156,000-$235,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.