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Client Site - Alexandria, VA, United States of America
Hybrid
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: Specializes in at least one core language or platform, expands tooling and languages as needed, applies design patterns, basic automation and testing, cloud fundamentals, DevOps basics, and database design concepts.
Work & Complexity: Handles issues of moderate scope, builds and integrates external dependencies, reviews code, and contributes independently to project milestones.
Quality & Independence: Estimates work, meets deadlines with few errors, improves monitoring and testing, and exercises judgment within defined processes.
Teamwork & Communication: Actively shares information, keeps stakeholders informed, and develops productive relationships across teams.
Consulting & Engagement: Communicates appropriately with clients, learns firm services to spot opportunities, and offers technical recommendations with guidance.
The Software Engineer will be a key member of our IT support team, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying business applications and automation solutions using SharePoint Online (SPO) and Power Platform. This role is focused on empowering our organizational customers by transforming manual processes into efficient, data-driven digital workflows. The ideal candidate will possess a mix of experience in traditional application development (JavaScript, JSON, and React), Power Platform, business analysis acumen, and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
Engaging in technical design, development, testing and implementation of enterprise-level solutions and bug fixes.
Design, develop, and maintain user-friendly, low-code/no-code solutions using Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven apps).
Provide ongoing maintenance and support for deployed applications and workflows, including troubleshooting and user support.
Assist with development of documentation and provide training to end-users and citizen developers to encourage platform adoption and best practices.
Build and manage automated workflows using Power Automate to connect data sources, streamline approvals, and reduce manual effort.
Create and manage data models and entities within Microsoft Dataverse.
Develop and integrate Power BI reports and dashboards to provide actionable insights from application data.
Participating in agile development teams to design, develop, test, and deliver business solutions.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field OR 4+ years of equivalent experience.
Familiarity with basic scripting or expressions (e.g., JavaScript, or JSON).
2+ years of hands-on experience developing solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
Active Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
Experience using Power Fx beyond basic formulas (e.g., collections, variables, performance considerations.
Familiarity with creating Power BI semantic models and optimized DAX.
Proficiency in working with data, including connecting to data sources, data modeling, and creating reports.
Strong understanding Microsoft’s 365 ecosystem, particularly SharePoint Online.
Microsoft Power Platform certifications (e.g., PL-900, PL-100, PL-200).
Experience with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and/or Dataverse.
Knowledge of user experience (UI/UX) design principles for creating intuitive and effective applications.
Experience with agile lifecycle development and associated tools.
React and Node development experience.
A proactive approach to problem‑solving and risk identification.
Professionalism, discretion, and reliability.
A collaborative spirit and the ability to thrive in a structured, compliance‑driven 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.