Job Title: Contact Center Architect - Amazon Connect
Location: United States (Fully Remote)
Employment Type: Contract - W2/C2C
Job Summary
Seeking a Contact Center Architect with strong Amazon Connect and AWS Solution Architecture experience to design and modernize customer-facing contact center solutions. This role will bridge business and IT teams, lead architecture discussions, and deliver scalable voice, chat, authentication, and self-service solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead business discovery sessions and translate requirements into technical architecture.
- Own end-to-end Amazon Connect architecture, including IVR/IVA, contact flows, routing, queues, voice, chat, and callback.
- Design authentication and identity-verification solutions with secure PII/PHI handling.
- Architect self-service and conversational solutions using Amazon Lex, Polly, and Transcribe.
- Integrate Amazon Connect with CRM and enterprise systems such as Salesforce and ServiceNow.
- Design AWS serverless/event-driven solutions using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, Redshift, and Athena.
- Support modernization from legacy platforms such as Avaya and Genesys.
- Establish monitoring, logging, security, governance, and contact-center KPIs.
- Use Terraform/CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and CI/CD for reliable deployments.
- Partner with development teams and lead architecture/design reviews.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of overall IT experience.
- 4-6+ years of AWS Cloud / Solution Architecture experience.
- 3+ years hands-on Amazon Connect experience in production.
- Strong experience with Amazon Connect, Lex, Polly, Transcribe, and Contact Lens.
- Strong AWS experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, Redshift/Athena.
- Experience with IVR/IVA, telephony, CTI, contact flows, routing, and authentication.
- Experience with Salesforce/ServiceNow or enterprise integrations.
- Experience with Terraform/CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and CI/CD.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare experience with payer, provider, PBM, or health-services organizations.
- Experience with member/provider journeys, eligibility, benefits, and healthcare self-service.
- Knowledge of HIPAA, HL7/FHIR, and healthcare data.
- Experience with conversational AI, chatbots, and virtual agents.
- Experience with QuickSight and Contact Lens analytics.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- Experience with Avaya or Genesys modernization.