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 Lead Software Engineer.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.
Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.
Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.
Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.
AIS is seeking a Power Platform Solution Architect to lead the solution architecture for modern Power Platform applications, workflows, and data solutions that replace legacy forms and streamline controlled business processes for a federal customer.
Key ResponsibilitiesDefine solution architecture for Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, SharePoint, integrations, and application lifecycle management.
Lead discovery and translate legacy forms, approval workflows, and external data-exchange requirements into a prioritized product backlog.
Design environment strategy, DLP, security roles, connector governance, data models, and release-management practices.
Set technical standards for reusable components, accessibility, error handling, auditability, and supportability.
Lead design reviews with business owners, security stakeholders, platform engineers, and development teams.
Plan the modernization path from SharePoint 2019 workflows and Captiva forms to supported cloud-native patterns.
8+ years in application, workflow, or business-solution architecture, including 4+ years with Power Platform.
Expertise with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, SharePoint, Power Platform ALM, and DLP.
Experience with complex workflow, approval, records, or regulated data-processing solutions.
Ability to lead requirements workshops and turn business needs into practical architecture decisions.
Strong written design documentation and customer-facing communication skills.
GCC High or government-tenant Power Platform experience.
Power Platform Solution Architect certification.
Experience modernizing legacy document workflows or key-punch applications.
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.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in application, workflow, or business-solution architecture
- 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Power Platform
- Expertise with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, SharePoint, Power Platform ALM, and DLP
- Experience with complex workflow, approval, records, or regulated data-processing solutions
- Ability to lead requirements workshops and translate business needs into architecture decisions
- Strong written design documentation and customer-facing communication skills
- GCC High or government-tenant Power Platform experience
- Power Platform Solution Architect certification
- Experience modernizing legacy document workflows or key-punch applications
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee ownership via an ESOP is emphasized and contributes meaningful long‑term value to total rewards. Equity participation is positioned as a core part of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is consistently described alongside the ESOP. Together these programs are framed as key pillars of financial benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices, plus dental and vision, are highlighted as part of a comprehensive offering. Health coverage is paired with PTO and paid holidays to round out the package.
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Insights
What We Do
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) provides software and systems engineering services to government agencies and businesses across the United States. We specialize in cloud services, DevOps, custom application development, and IT services. Our areas of expertise include custom application development, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, User Experience (UX), business intelligence/advanced analytics and IoT, and Managed Services. Our customers include a broad range of organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, and include state and local governments as well as defense and national security agencies. Our analysis-driven approach to solving business problems—combined with our commitment to deadlines and budgets—results in successful projects and long-term relationships with our clients. We're a top-tier cloud partner for Microsoft, Amazon and Equinix with proven capabilities and a track record of success. AIS is a Microsoft gold partner with six competencies and a Microsoft National Solution Provider (NSP). From over 750,000 Microsoft partners, there are less than 50 partners that have been selected for inclusion in the NSP organization. Microsoft chooses partners for this program that have proven capabilities to scale to the needs of large enterprises across the United States. Founded in 1982, AIS is a growing and privately held company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with offices in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Indiana, and India. Check out our opportunities at careers.ais.com.







