Power Platform Developer

Why AIS?

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 Software Engineer.

• 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.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Power Platform Developer.
Project Summary

AIS is supporting the OUSW Policy Program, which has a need for a unified 'personnel data tracker' platform using big data model tooling to consistently address personnel data across various departments, and document the challenges when faced with disparate data sources and organizational restructuring across multiple agencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain user-friendly, low-code/no-code solutions using Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven apps).
• Build and manage automated workflows using Power Automate to connect data sources, streamline approvals, and reduce manual effort.
• Connect to various data sources, including SharePoint, Dataverse, and other approved databases, ensuring data integrity and security.
• Engage directly with various customers across the organization to understand their mission requirements, operational challenges, and business needs.
• Lead discovery sessions, interviews, and workshops to gather functional and technical requirements for new applications and process automation.
• Translate customer needs into practical and effective technical solutions that can be implemented within the DoD365 ecosystem.
• 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.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to the organization's data governance policies and DoD standards for handling CUI and other sensitive information.
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support for deployed applications and workflows, including troubleshooting and user support.
• Develop documentation and provide training to end-users and citizen developers to encourage platform adoption and best practices.

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field OR 4+ years of equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
• Experience using Power Fx beyond basic formulas (e.g., collections, variables, performance considerations.
• Familiarity with creating Power BI semantic models and optimized DAX.
• Demonstrated experience in a business analyst or customer-facing role, with a proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Proficiency in working with data, including connecting to data sources, data modeling, and creating reports.
• Strong understanding Microsoft's 365 ecosystem, particularly SharePoint Online.
• Experience working within a DoD or government cloud environment (e.g., GCC High, DoD Cloud).
• Must have an Active Secret clearance, with the ability and willingness to obtain a TS/SCI.

Nice to Have Skills

• 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.
• Familiarity with basic scripting or expressions (e.g., JavaScript, or JSON).
• Experience with agile lifecycle development and associated tools.
• React and Node development experience.

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 $81,000-$123,000 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.
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