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 Project Manager.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Expert in advanced project management methodologies, strategic planning, and complex contract management. Deep understanding of industry best practices and business unit operations.
Work & Complexity: Oversees large, complex projects or programs, manages cross-functional teams, and ensures alignment with organizational goals. Resolves high-impact risks and issues.
Quality & Independence: Sets quality benchmarks, drives strategic initiatives, and operates with broad autonomy and accountability.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads and mentors project teams, fosters collaboration across departments, and communicates effectively with senior leadership and clients.
Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives and stakeholders on project strategy, drives innovation, and champions continuous improvement across the organization.
AIS is seeking a Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders and delivery teams to drive discovery, execution, acceptance, and operational readiness for complex Microsoft cloud modernization efforts for a federal customer.
Key ResponsibilitiesLead stakeholder discovery, document requirements, map business processes, and maintain a prioritized, traceable backlog.
Coordinate delivery plans, milestones, risks, decisions, dependencies, and executive reporting across concurrent workstreams.
Facilitate design workshops, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, demos, user acceptance testing, and readiness reviews.
Develop acceptance criteria and trace requirements through configuration, testing, training, and go-live.
Coordinate change-management, communications, training, and service-transition activities.
Translate technical issues and decisions into concise customer-ready materials.
6+ years in technical project management, business analysis, or product delivery roles.
Experience leading enterprise application or Microsoft cloud implementation projects.
Strong requirements elicitation, process mapping, backlog management, and UAT coordination skills.
Ability to manage delivery cadence, customer expectations, and cross-functional dependencies.
Excellent written, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
Power Platform, SharePoint, or Azure delivery experience.
PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, or business-analysis certification.
Experience in a regulated or government customer environment.
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
- 6+ years of experience in technical project management, business analysis, or product delivery roles
- Experience leading enterprise application or Microsoft cloud implementation projects
- Strong requirements elicitation skills
- Process mapping experience
- Backlog management skills
- User acceptance testing coordination skills
- Ability to manage delivery cadence, customer expectations, and cross-functional dependencies
- Excellent written communication, facilitation, and executive communication skills
- Power Platform, SharePoint, or Azure delivery experience
- PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, or business-analysis certification
- Experience in a regulated or government customer environment
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.
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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.
