Principal Architect

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About the role

  • Principal Architect leading Amazon Connect and AI contact-center solutions for Caylent, an AWS and Anthropic cloud services company. Driving architecture, delivery, and technical leadership for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and technical delivery of Amazon Connect and AI agent solutions end to end
  • Build AI-native self-service using Amazon Connect AI agents, Amazon Q in Connect, and Amazon Bedrock
  • Engineer prompts and tool-calling integrations, authentication flows, and hallucination guardrails
  • Implement voice AI barge-in, fallback, and error-recovery behavior; validate with trace analysis
  • Optimize inference cost and latency through model selection, prompt caching, and token budgeting
  • Diagnose AI agent performance using observability tooling, CloudWatch, contact flow logs, transcripts, spans, tool executions, and token usage
  • Build multilingual, intent-based NLU and SSML-tuned voice experiences
  • Build Amazon Connect contact flows, Cases, Tasks, Contact Lens, routing, outbound campaigns, analytics data lakes, and QuickSight dashboards
  • Support migrations from Avaya, Genesys, Connect, and NICE platforms
  • Build Agent Workspace experiences, CRM integrations, and serverless event-driven backends
  • Author infrastructure as code and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated test suites
  • Implement phased production rollouts, deployment runbooks, monitoring, alerting, security, and compliance controls
  • Work with customer engineering teams, run technical sessions, demonstrate work, and lead knowledge transfer
  • Own architecture decisions, perform code reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute reusable practice assets
  • Support pre-sales through proof-of-concept demos and technical estimates
  • Lead a 5–10 person team and provide technical direction
  • Own delivery planning, risk management, technical escalations, and delivery quality

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 2+ years building on Amazon Connect or comparable CCaaS platforms at enterprise scale
  • Strong, current Amazon Connect skills: contact flows, routing, Cases and Tasks, Contact Lens, Customer Profiles, Streams API, and the Connect data/analytics stack
  • Hands-on experience with conversational and generative AI, Amazon Lex plus LLM-based development (Amazon Bedrock, Q in Connect, or equivalent), including prompt engineering and tool calling
  • Strong Python, Typescript/Node.js, Javascript, and React experience; solid AWS serverless engineering (Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions)
  • Experience with docker containers, web applications, databases (i.e. DynamoDB, SQL, Aurora)
  • Infrastructure as code proficiency with AWS CDK or Terraform, including multi-account deployment patterns
  • Understanding of RAG concepts and LLMOps
  • Experience shipping and supporting production systems, testing discipline, observability instrumentation, and incident debugging across the full stack
  • Clear communication with customer-facing composure, able to demo your work, explain trade-offs, and run working sessions with both client engineers and C-suite members
  • Current legal authorization to work in the country where this position is located; Caylent cannot sponsor visa or work permit applications
  • AWS certifications, contact center migration experience, contact center operations fluency, and consulting or client-delivery background are preferred qualifications

Benefits

  • 100% remote work
  • Equitable Life - Hybrid Plan
  • 100% Premium Coverage for the employee and dependents
  • 4% Pension match (employer contribution)
  • Unlimited Vacations
  • Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Competitive stock options plan
  • Paid for exams and certifications
  • Peer bonus awards
  • State of the art laptop and tools
  • Equipment & Office Stipend
  • Individual professional development plan
  • Annual stipend for Learning and Development
  • Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$180,000 - CA$202,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSDockerDynamoDBJavaScriptNode.jsPythonReactSQLTerraformTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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