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.
Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end AI and enterprise solutions, from business discovery through architecture, implementation, and production support
Partner with business units, customers, and senior leadership to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable, outcome-driven systems
Architect and implement LLM-based solutions, including document intelligence, retrieval systems, vector search, and AI-driven workflows
Design modern cloud-native and distributed systems, including APIs, integrations, data models, and automation pipelines
Re-engineer business processes to eliminate manual work, improve decision-making, and optimise operational efficiency
Provide hands-on technical leadership, including coding, design reviews, mentoring, and engineering guidance
Establish architecture standards, reusable patterns, and delivery frameworks to improve team scalability and consistency
Advise stakeholders on technology strategy, trade-offs, risks, and implementation approaches across complex initiatives
Reston location, and hybrid work environment
Required for This Opportunity15+ years of experience in solution architecture, application development, and enterprise system design
Proven expertise in .NET/C#, ASP.NET, and modern application architecture patterns
Experience designing and delivering cloud-based, distributed systems (PaaS-focused environments preferred)
Hands-on experience with AI/ML solutions, including LLM workflows, prompt engineering, and production AI systems
Strong experience with databases (relational, NoSQL, graph) and data architecture
Expertise in API design and integration patterns (REST, HTTP, gRPC, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and lead full lifecycle delivery
Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience working across executive leadership, business teams, and engineering organisations
Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, and deadline-driven environments
Experience building document intelligence pipelines, including classification, extraction, and metadata analysis
Knowledge of vector databases, retrieval architectures, and AI-assisted workflow automation
Experience with Python-based automation and AI engineering
Familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS)
Exposure to IoT systems, C++, and low-level engineering concepts
Experience defining operating models, process re-engineering, and business transformation initiatives
Background in mentoring engineers and establishing architectural governance frameworks
Strong understanding of system performance, fault tolerance, and distributed system failure patterns
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
- 15+ years of experience in solution architecture, application development, and enterprise system design
- Proven expertise in .NET/C# and ASP.NET
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-based, distributed systems (PaaS-focused environments preferred)
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML solutions, including LLM workflows, prompt engineering, and production AI systems
- Strong experience with databases (relational, NoSQL, graph) and data architecture
- Expertise in API design and integration patterns (REST, HTTP, gRPC)
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and lead full lifecycle delivery
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience working across executive leadership, business teams, and engineering organizations
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, and deadline-driven environments
- Experience building document intelligence pipelines (classification, extraction, metadata analysis)
- Knowledge of vector databases, retrieval architectures, and AI-assisted workflow automation
- Experience with Python-based automation and AI engineering
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS)
- Exposure to IoT systems, C++, and low-level engineering concepts
- Experience defining operating models, process re-engineering, and business transformation initiatives
- Background in mentoring engineers and establishing architectural governance frameworks
- Strong understanding of system performance, fault tolerance, and distributed system failure patterns
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.
