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USA Remote, United States of America
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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.
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.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Works across multiple languages and platforms, designs and implements architectural decisions, applies design patterns, cloud-native services, IAAS/PAAS/SAAS basics, and secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
Work & Complexity: Performs complex tasks under limited guidance, integrates and troubleshoots distributed or cloud services, and optimizes performance and scalability.
Quality & Independence: Sets a high bar for code quality, multitasks effectively, owns and corrects errors quickly, and drives continuous improvement.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads code reviews, mentors teammates, and translates technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
Consulting & Engagement: Works directly with clients without oversight, writes technical RFP content when needed, nurtures client relationships, and manages routine client concerns.
AIS is seeking a Power Platform Architect / Developer to lead the design, development, governance, and implementation of enterprise business solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform. This role blends architecture and hands-on development responsibilities, requiring a candidate who can define scalable solution patterns while also building high-quality applications, automations, integrations, and analytics capabilities.
Lead architecture and technical design for Power Platform solutions that meet business, functional, security, and operational requirements.
Define scalable solution patterns, reusable components, environment strategy, ALM practices, and governance controls for enterprise Power Platform adoption.
Architect solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power BI, Power Pages, and supporting Azure services where appropriate.
Translate business requirements into solution designs, technical specifications, data models, and integration patterns.
Design, configure, and develop Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps, automated workflows, approval processes, and custom business solutions on the Power Platform.
Build and maintain Dataverse tables, relationships, business rules, forms, views, and security models.
Develop integrations between Power Platform and enterprise systems using connectors, custom connectors, APIs, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and other Microsoft cloud services.
Create reporting and dashboard solutions using Power BI to support operational insight and executive decision-making.
Establish and enforce Power Platform governance standards including environment strategy, DLP policies, connector management, solution segmentation, and release management.
Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for automation, application modernization, and process transformation.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience designing and developing Microsoft business solutions, including significant hands-on experience with the Power Platform.
Deep expertise in Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, Power Pages, and Microsoft 365 integration.
Experience architecting enterprise-grade low-code solutions with strong attention to security, supportability, and scalability.
Strong understanding of application lifecycle management (ALM), solution packaging, deployment pipelines, and environment strategies.
Experience integrating Power Platform with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Dynamics 365, Azure services, and external systems.
Knowledge of identity and access concepts including Entra ID, role-based security, least privilege, and service account design.
Experience with REST APIs, JSON, custom connectors, and integration design.
Microsoft certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert; Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate; Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate; or any Azure or Microsoft 365 related certifications.
Experience with Copilot Studio, AI Builder, and emerging Microsoft automation and agent capabilities.
Experience in regulated or large enterprise environments with formal governance, security, and change management requirements.
Familiarity with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, DevOps pipelines, and custom application extensions.
Experience replacing legacy forms, spreadsheets, Access databases, VBA solutions, or manual workflows with modern Power Platform solutions.
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.