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.
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade applications built on the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and supporting Azure services. The ideal candidate has a strong background in enterprise application architecture, hands-on leadership in Power Platform solution delivery, with an emphasis in integrating Power Platform with Azure services.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Design
Lead the end‑to‑end architecture of enterprise applications using the full Power Platform suite: Power Apps (Canvas Apps & Model‑Driven Apps), Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio.
Design and optimize Dataverse data models to support scalable, secure, and maintainable applications.
Architect integrations using REST APIs, Azure Functions, and messaging technologies such as Azure Service Bus.
Define technical standards, reusable components, and best practices for Power Platform development.
Translate business needs into technical roadmaps, solution designs, and implementation plans.
Design and establish health ALM strategies for multi-developer teams.
Development Leadership
Provide technical oversight and guidance to development teams across Power Apps, flows, and Azure integrations.
Deliver hands-on support for complex solution components and troubleshooting.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and other architects to align designs to business goals.
Governance, Security & Compliance
Establish governance frameworks for Power Platform including environment strategy, DLP policies, and COE foundations.
Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise standards for security, accessibility, scalability, and performance.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with enterprise architecture, data engineering, and integration teams to ensure consistent design patterns.
Serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise Power Platform adoption and capability development.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience in solution architecture, software architecture, or enterprise application design.
Hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions with:
Power Apps (Canvas and Model‑Driven)
Dataverse and relational data modeling
Power Automate
Azure Functions
REST API integrations
Strong understanding of cloud architecture and enterprise integration patterns.
Proven ability to lead technical teams and communicate complex concepts to business stakeholders.
Familiarity with DevOps practices for Power Platform & Azure (solution ALM, automated deployments).
Microsoft Power Platform Developer Certification
Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Certification
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Databricks, Fabric and modern data platform architectures.
.Net / C# / JavaScript / Typescript proficiency
Knowledge of:
Event‑driven architectures
Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies
Enterprise data integration patterns (ETL/ELT, streaming, batch)
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.
Top Skills
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.
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