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 design and development of scalable, distributed, and secure software solutions/systems using cutting-edge cloud and data technologies.
Key ResponsibilitiesDefine architectural framework, design technical standards, and guide development teams to achieve project goals. Oversee complex solution development and guide, train team members on architectural principles. Troubleshoot complex issues, monitor applications, and support production incident resolution. Create and manage unit and automation tests, ensuring test coverage and stability. Actively participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality. Mentor developers, promote best practices, and contribute to continuous development initiatives. Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to optimize resource usage and implement best practices for cloud-native development. 10% domestic travel within the east coast on a regular basis
Required For This OpportunityMaster's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, CIS, a related field and Two (2) years of experience as Sr. software developer or related.
Must have experience with designing/developing enterprise-scale, highly distributed software systems and implement scalable/maintainable architectures for clients in highly regulated industries, including commercial insurance, insurance, retail and supply chain; utilizing C#, .Net, and .Net Core; leading technical design efforts; developing responsive and dynamic user interfaces using Angular or React, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and optimal performance; using Visual Studio and Git to manage codebases; ensuring code quality and modularity; proficiency in microservices using GraphQL and Hasura for schema design and API integration across distributed systems; utilizing Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform to deploy cloud-native applications; using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to implement CI/CD pipelines through DevOps practices; leveraging Apache Airflow for orchestrating workflows; applying security best practices in software modeling and authorization, and working within Agile, Scrum, or SAFe frameworks to deliver software solutions. Experience with containerization and AKS; design and implementation of containerized applications using Docker, ensuring portability and consistency across environments.
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.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 2 years experience as Senior Software Developer or related
- Experience designing/developing enterprise-scale software systems
- Proficiency in C#, .Net, .Net Core
- Experience with Angular or React
- Familiar with Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with containerization and AKS
- Experience with Git, Visual Studio, CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to apply security best practices
AIS (Applied Information Sciences) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AIS (Applied Information Sciences) and has not been reviewed or approved by AIS (Applied Information Sciences).
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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.
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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.
