Telus Digital
Senior Amazon Connect Application Architect
Remote, US · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonJavaNode.jsDynamoDBAWSTerraformCI/CDOpenAPILLMsCybersecurityProject ManagementSalesforceCRMERPCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- This role specializes in Amazon Connect and its supporting AWS services, including Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and DynamoDB.
Responsibilities
- design scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective architectures on Amazon Connect and AWS, applying Well-Architected Framework principles
- finalize and own the Technical Design Document.
- Build and configure Amazon Connect contact flows and supporting components, and develop custom application logic using AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, S3, Kinesis, and DynamoDB
- build custom agent experiences with the Amazon Connect Streams API and a custom Contact Control Panel (CCP), and extend the solution with Amazon Connect Cases, Customer Profiles, Contact Lens, and Amazon Bedrock agents where appropriate
- Validate and confirm the technical approach and architecture, ensuring alignment with AWS best practices and client security and compliance requirements
- approve configuration changes and custom application deployments, and drive complex technical issues to resolution
- Architect and implement seamless integrations between Amazon Connect / AWS and external systems such as CRM, WFM, and ERP platforms
- lead migration efforts from legacy contact center platforms (for example, Salesforce Service Cloud, Five9, or Genesys) to Amazon Connect, analyzing existing systems and developing pragmatic migration strategies.
- Provide strategic technical oversight, mentorship, and hands-on support to Application and Quality Engineers
Requirements
- Deep experience architecting and implementing seamless integrations between Amazon Connect / AWS and external systems such as CRM, WFM, and ERP.
- Proficiency in contact center reporting and analytics, including Contact Lens conversational analytics, and ensuring data consistency across the platform.
- Working knowledge of the Amazon Connect backend service APIs, for example flow management, contact handling, and real-time and historical metrics.
- Experience with Amazon Connect Cases (the ConnectCases API) for tracking and managing multi-interaction customer issues.
- Experience with Amazon Connect Customer Profiles (the CustomerProfiles API and AppFlow connectors) to unify customer data from CRM, ITSM, and ERP sources with contact history.
- Experience with Amazon Connect Contact Lens for real-time and post-call conversational analytics, sentiment analysis, and automated contact categorization, including the real-time analysis APIs.
- Familiarity with cloud security frameworks, compliance standards, and cost optimization strategies.
- Experience leading migration projects from legacy platforms such as Salesforce Service Cloud, Five9, or Genesys.
- Hands-on experience with other CCaaS solutions is a strong asset.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with 5+ years in contact center solutions and at least 4 years in a technical leadership, application architect, or solution architect role for CCaaS or cloud deployments.
- Proven ability to design and build complex, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient omnichannel Customer Experience (CX) solutions on Amazon Connect and AWS, applying Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Demonstrated experience personally building and deploying solutions on AWS, not just designing them, including serverless development, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Hands-on experience building custom agent experiences with the Amazon Connect Streams API and custom Contact Control Panel (CCP), and working across the Amazon Connect backend service APIs for contact flows, contact handling, and reporting.
- Ability to lead technical discovery, deliver solution demonstrations, mentor junior staff, and translate high-level business requirements into detailed technical specifications and working software.
- AWS Professional certification(s), for example AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified Developer (Associate), or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- Hands-on experience across Amazon Connect and AWS services, including Lambda, Lex, Polly, S3, Kinesis, and DynamoDB.
- Experience building custom agent applications with the Amazon Connect Streams API (StreamsJS), including embedding or building a custom Contact Control Panel (CCP), handling agent and contact state events, and using Amazon Connect SDK.
Nice to have
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code, with Terraform preferred (AWS CloudFormation also valued), and CI/CD tooling for automated, repeatable deployments.
Company info
- Welcome to TELUS Digital https://www.telusdigital.com/ - where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS https://www.telus.com/en/, one of Canada's largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
- With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across various service offerings: Web, Mobile & Digital Marketing | Enterprise AI | Customer Care AI & Technology | Enterprise Technology Modernization
- From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are - all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.
- Welcome to TELUS Digital https://www.telusdigital.com/ - where innovation drives impact at a global scale.
- As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS https://www.telus.com/en/, one of Canada's largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
- Our Amazon Connect Application Architects will be an integral part of our CX Platforms team at TELUS Digital.
- This role will have the option to be in a Work From Near (Hybrid) capacity based out of one of the following offices: Charlottesville, VA, Durham, NC, Columbus, OH, or Boston, MA, OR in a Work From Anywhere (Remote) capacity from within the U.S.
- Web, Mobile & Digital Marketing | Enterprise AI | Customer Care AI & Technology | Enterprise Technology Modernization
- This role will have the option to be in a
- Collaborate with customers and Solution Architects to define end-to-end system design, creating blueprints for IVR and voice workflows, omni-channel routing, ticket lifecycles, and key integration points
Equal opportunity
- At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants' qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.
- We will only use the information you provide to process your application and to produce tracking statistics. Since we do not request personal data deemed sensitive, we ask you to abstain from sharing that information with us.
- At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants' qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.
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