Senior Amazon Connect Engineer – AWS Contact Center & IVR
Parsippany, NJ - USA
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Amazon Connect Engineer to design develop integrate and maintain cloud-based contact center solutions using Amazon Connect and AWS services. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in contact flows routing profiles IVR/IVA solutions telephony integrations and serverless AWS architecture along with experience in contact center analytics and AI-driven customer experience solutions.
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Design develop configure and optimize Amazon Connect contact flows routing profiles queues and agent experiences.
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Build and maintain serverless integrations using AWS Lambda DynamoDB S3 API Gateway and CloudWatch.
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Develop IVR and Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) solutions using Amazon Lex and conversational design principles.
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Integrate Amazon Connect with CRM platforms and enterprise applications through APIs and event-driven architectures.
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Configure and troubleshoot telephony components including PSTN SIP Direct Inward Dialing (DIDs) call routing and call quality.
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Implement contact event streaming and analytics pipelines using Amazon Kinesis and related AWS services.
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Apply AWS security best practices including IAM roles and policies encryption and access controls.
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Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation and CI/CD pipelines.
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Monitor troubleshoot and optimize contact center performance using CloudWatch Logs Insights AWS X-Ray and other monitoring tools.
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Develop reporting and analytics solutions using Amazon Redshift Athena QuickSight and contact center event data.
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Support AI-enabled contact center capabilities including Amazon Connect Contact Lens sentiment analysis and customer interaction analytics.
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Collaborate with business stakeholders telephony teams CRM developers and DevOps teams to deliver scalable solutions.
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Maintain technical documentation architecture diagrams deployment procedures and operational runbooks.
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Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Connect contact flows routing profiles queues and contact center configuration.
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Proficiency in AWS Lambda DynamoDB S3 API Gateway and CloudWatch.
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Experience with Amazon Lex IVR/IVA workflows and conversational design.
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Experience integrating Amazon Connect with CRM platforms and external applications.
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Strong understanding of telephony concepts including PSTN SIP DIDs call routing and call quality troubleshooting.
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Experience with Amazon Kinesis contact event logs streaming and analytics pipelines.
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Knowledge of AWS security including IAM roles policies and encryption.
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Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation and automated deployment pipelines.
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Familiarity with CloudWatch Logs Insights AWS X-Ray and production troubleshooting.
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Strong communication documentation analytical and solution-design skills.
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional or AWS Certified Developer - Associate.
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Experience with Amazon Connect Contact Lens sentiment analysis AI/ML and contact center analytics.
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Familiarity with workforce management and workforce optimization tools such as Verint or NICE.
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Experience with Amazon Redshift Athena and QuickSight for reporting and business intelligence.
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Experience designing scalable highly available cloud contact center solutions.