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 Senior Software Architect.

• Core 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.
• Work & Complexity: Plans and directs the most complex, cross-functional, mission-critical initiatives, and evaluates industry standards to drive innovation and intellectual property.
• Quality & Independence: Acts independently with organization-wide influence, sets visionary bars for quality, reliability, and delivery practices.
• Teamwork & Communication: Models company values, mentors across the organization, builds formal networks with decision makers, and serves as an external spokesperson.
• Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives on strategy, steers long-range planning and new lines of business, and delivers thought-leading presentations at the highest technical level.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure Data / Databricks Engineer.

Project Summary

AIS is seeking an Azure Data / Databricks Engineer to build secure, reliable Azure data pipelines and analytics foundations that modernize legacy Oracle workloads and enable governed reporting and analytics for a federal customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement ingestion, transformation, and data-quality pipelines using ADLS Gen2, Azure Databricks, and approved orchestration services.
• Migrate and modernize Oracle data workloads while preserving lineage, reconciliation, security, and performance requirements.
• Develop medallion-style data models, notebooks, jobs, monitoring, and operational support practices.
• Collaborate with business and BI teams on curated data sets, Power BI integration, and data-consumption standards.
• Implement secure identity, network, storage, and access patterns appropriate for Azure Government environments.
• Document pipeline operations, data quality checks, recovery procedures, and support handoff materials.

Required For This Opportunity

• 5+ years in data engineering, ETL/ELT, or analytics-platform delivery.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, ADLS Gen2, SQL, Python, and data-pipeline orchestration.
• Experience migrating relational or Oracle data workloads to cloud data platforms.
• Knowledge of data modeling, data quality, reconciliation, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder-communication skills.

Nice to Have Skills

• Azure Government or regulated data-platform experience.
• Power BI, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, or Azure Data Factory experience.
• Databricks or Azure Data Engineer certification.

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 $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 lo…