Sr. Applied AI Solutions Architect, Amazon Connect

Amazon
Denver, CO, USA2026-06-01ONSITE

About the job

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. The Applied AI Solutions Architecture team is seeking a hands-on, customer-obsessed Solutions Architect to accelerate customer adoption of Amazon Connect's AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

- Lead technical discovery sessions with customer teams to understand business requirements, existing contact center architecture, and AI readiness.

- Conduct data readiness assessments to evaluate the quality, accessibility, structure, and governance of customer data assets.

- Design and configure agentic AI solutions within Amazon Connect, including AI agent creation, AI prompt engineering, model selection, guardrail configuration, and tool/action integration.

- Architect Agent-to-Agent communication patterns that allow Amazon Connect AI agents to collaborate with specialized agents across the enterprise.

- Build serverless integrations using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and scripting (Python, Node.js) to connect Amazon Connect AI agents with customer data systems.

- Architect secure access patterns to cloud-based data systems to power AI agent tool use and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

- Leverage agentic development environments such as Kiro (and similar AI-assisted IDEs) to accelerate development workflows.

- Guide customers through testing, evaluation, and validation of AI agent performance against defined success criteria before production deployment.

- Share learnings, delivering technical deep-dives, and mentoring other SAs on agentic AI implementation patterns.

Qualifications

Minimum

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent

- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

- Experience with Amazon Connect or other enterprise contact center platforms (Genesys, Avaya, Cisco, NICE, Five9, etc.)

- Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, including model invocation, agent creation, knowledge base configuration, and guardrails