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
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