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Senior Amazon Connect Engineer – AWS Contact Center & IVR

Purple Drive


Job Location:

Parsippany, NJ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 October 2026 (3 days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Amazon Connect Engineer - AWS Contact Center & IVR
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.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design develop configure and optimize Amazon Connect contact flows routing profiles queues and agent experiences.

  • Build and maintain serverless integrations using AWS Lambda DynamoDB S3 API Gateway and CloudWatch.

  • Develop IVR and Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) solutions using Amazon Lex and conversational design principles.

  • Integrate Amazon Connect with CRM platforms and enterprise applications through APIs and event-driven architectures.

  • Configure and troubleshoot telephony components including PSTN SIP Direct Inward Dialing (DIDs) call routing and call quality.

  • Implement contact event streaming and analytics pipelines using Amazon Kinesis and related AWS services.

  • Apply AWS security best practices including IAM roles and policies encryption and access controls.

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Monitor troubleshoot and optimize contact center performance using CloudWatch Logs Insights AWS X-Ray and other monitoring tools.

  • Develop reporting and analytics solutions using Amazon Redshift Athena QuickSight and contact center event data.

  • Support AI-enabled contact center capabilities including Amazon Connect Contact Lens sentiment analysis and customer interaction analytics.

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders telephony teams CRM developers and DevOps teams to deliver scalable solutions.

  • Maintain technical documentation architecture diagrams deployment procedures and operational runbooks.

Required Qualifications
  • Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Connect contact flows routing profiles queues and contact center configuration.

  • Proficiency in AWS Lambda DynamoDB S3 API Gateway and CloudWatch.

  • Experience with Amazon Lex IVR/IVA workflows and conversational design.

  • Experience integrating Amazon Connect with CRM platforms and external applications.

  • Strong understanding of telephony concepts including PSTN SIP DIDs call routing and call quality troubleshooting.

  • Experience with Amazon Kinesis contact event logs streaming and analytics pipelines.

  • Knowledge of AWS security including IAM roles policies and encryption.

  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation and automated deployment pipelines.

  • Familiarity with CloudWatch Logs Insights AWS X-Ray and production troubleshooting.

  • Strong communication documentation analytical and solution-design skills.

Preferred Qualifications
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional or AWS Certified Developer - Associate.

  • Experience with Amazon Connect Contact Lens sentiment analysis AI/ML and contact center analytics.

  • Familiarity with workforce management and workforce optimization tools such as Verint or NICE.

  • Experience with Amazon Redshift Athena and QuickSight for reporting and business intelligence.

  • Experience designing scalable highly available cloud contact center solutions.