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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.\nEmployee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.\n\nContinuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.\n\nInclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.\n\nMission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.\n\nWhat are we looking for?\nAt 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.\nWorking@AIS\nAt 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.\nCore 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.\n\nWork & Complexity: Plans and directs the most complex, cross-functional, mission-critical initiatives, and evaluates industry standards to drive innovation and intellectual property.\n\nQuality & Independence: Acts independently with organization-wide influence, sets visionary bars for quality, reliability, and delivery practices.\n\nTeamwork & Communication: Models company values, mentors across the organization, builds formal networks with decision makers, and serves as an external spokesperson.\n\nConsulting & Engagement: Advises executives on strategy, steers long-range planning and new lines of business, and delivers thought-leading presentations at the highest technical level.\n\nAs your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Principal AI-Native Engineer.\n\nProject Summary\nThe Principal AI-Native Engineer serves as the organization's highest-level hands-on engineering leader for AI-enabled software delivery. This role combines deep expertise in software architecture, cloud engineering, AI-native development practices, platform engineering, and technical leadership. The individual will design and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, establish AI-first engineering standards, mentor engineering teams, and drive adoption of modern Azure and GitHub development ecosystems. The role requires a unique blend of visionary thinking and hands-on execution, with accountability for delivering secure, observable, testable, and maintainable solutions throughout the software lifecycle.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\nLead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex software solutions.\n\nTranslate business requirements into scalable technical specifications and solution designs.\n\nDrive engineering practices across development, testing, deployment, observability, and operations.\n\nProvide technical leadership for engineering teams and serve as a trusted advisor for solution strategy and delivery.\n\nAI-Native Software Engineering\nLeverage AI-assisted development tools and AI-native engineering methodologies to accelerate software delivery.\n\nDefine and implement effective guardrails, review mechanisms, and quality controls for AI-generated code.\n\nEstablish engineering workflows that maximize developer productivity through intelligent automation.\n\nEvaluate emerging AI engineering capabilities and continuously evolve development practices.\n\nSoftware Design Excellence\nDesign maintainable, extensible, and resilient systems with long-term sustainability in mind.\n\nApply test-driven and quality-driven engineering methodologies.\n\nEnsure solutions are secure, observable, scalable, and operationally efficient.\n\nMake architecture and design decisions based on product lifecycle thinking and operational outcomes.\n\nEngineering Quality & Verification\nLead code review practices and engineering quality initiatives.\n\nDefine and implement comprehensive testing strategies, including automated testing and acceptance testing methodologies.\n\nEstablish standards for deployment validation, monitoring, and production readiness.\n\nPromote engineering accountability throughout the software lifecycle.\n\nPlatform & Technology Enablement\nDrive adoption of modern development and cloud platforms.\n\nGuide teams in leveraging GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and cloud engineering capabilities.\n\nCollaborate with platform teams to optimize developer experience, security, governance, and operational efficiency.\n\nSupport integration of AI platforms and services into enterprise software development workflows.\n\nTalent Development & Mentorship\nMentor engineers, technical leads, and architects on engineering design principles and AI-native development practices.\n\nCoach teams on effective system design, testing strategies, and software craftsmanship.\n\nFoster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellence.\n\nHelp identify and develop future technical leaders within the organization.\n\nRequired For This Opportunity\nExperience\n12+ years of professional software engineering experience.\n\nProven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications.\n\nDemonstrated ownership of software products throughout their lifecycle, including ongoing operational responsibility.\n\nExtensive experience leading engineering teams and technical initiatives.\n\nTechnical Expertise\nStrong expertise in software architecture and system design.\n\nDeep understanding of modern software development methodologies and engineering practices.\n\nExperience implementing automated testing strategies and quality engineering practices.\n\nExpertise in code reviews, engineering governance, and technical standards.\n\nStrong understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern software delivery platforms.\n\nAI Engineering Capabilities\nExperience utilizing AI-assisted development tools in production environments.\n\nUnderstanding of AI-native software delivery approaches and engineering workflows.\n\nAbility to establish effective engineering processes that incorporate AI while maintaining quality and security.\n\nPassion for exploring and adopting emerging AI-driven engineering innovations.\n\nPlatform & Cloud Knowledge\nExperience with cloud platforms and modern application architectures.\n\nKnowledge of source control, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines.\n\nFamiliarity with platform engineering concepts, security controls, observability, and operational excellence.\n\nNice to Have Skills\nExperience working within product-oriented engineering organizations.\n\nExperience owning software products or platforms through multiple release cycles.\n\nStrong understanding of software operational models and production support practices.\n\nExperience delivering highly scalable distributed systems.\n\nKnowledge of enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements.\n\nExperience implementing developer productivity platforms and engineering enablement initiatives.\n\nAt AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.\n\nThe targeted base salary range for this role is $195,000-$210,000 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.\n\nWe value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.\n\nApplied 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. 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