GENAI CCAS Application Developer

GENAI CCAS Application Developer

Posted Today by Robert Half

Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote or Washington, District of Columbia

Summary: The role of GenAI Application Developer involves designing, building, and enhancing AI-powered applications for an AWS-based Contact Center as a Service (CCAS) platform, focusing on conversational AI and intelligent automation. The developer will collaborate with senior engineers and UI/UX designers to implement various features within a security-focused environment. This position offers an opportunity for growth in software development while contributing to impactful AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS services and a strong foundation in software development.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain Amazon Connect contact flows, routing profiles, and queues for voice and chat
  • Integrate Amazon Lex V2 bots for call deflection, self-service workflows, and escalation
  • Configure Contact Lens for transcription, summarization, sentiment analysis, QA insights, and redaction
  • Configure Amazon Q in Connect domains, knowledge sources, guided workflows, and agent assist capabilities
  • Implement secure S3-based transcript storage with encryption, lifecycle policies, and retention controls
  • Develop AWS Lambda (Python) functions to orchestrate Amazon Bedrock LLM calls, embeddings workflows, and model invocation logging
  • Implement OpenSearch indexing, keyword/vector queries, and ingestion triggers
  • Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to support agent assist and self-service knowledge
  • Apply structured logging, testing, error handling, and performance/cost safeguards
  • Implement AI guardrails, prompt templates, and output evaluation mechanisms
  • Enforce PII redaction and minimization across conversation logs
  • Support CloudFront + WAF configurations for secure web chat entry points
  • Build APIs and event hooks to pass context between web chat, Amazon Connect, and AI services
  • Contribute to Git-based CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and documentation
  • Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and architecture diagrams
  • Create and monitor CloudWatch dashboards and alarms for call deflection rate, Average Handle Time (AHT), contact resolution, and AI usage metrics

Key Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 2-4 years of experience, OR a Master's degree
  • 2+ years of software development experience with Python, including AWS Lambda
  • Hands-on experience configuring Amazon Connect (contact flows, routing, queues, voice/chat)
  • Experience integrating Amazon Lex V2 with Connect flows
  • Familiarity with conversational AI design (slot filling, error handling, fallback patterns)
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (CloudFormation)
  • Git-based CI/CD workflows
  • Foundational AWS security knowledge (IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, logging/monitoring)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
  • Experience with full Amazon Connect deployments and telephony configuration (preferred)
  • Experience enabling Contact Lens analytics and compliance features (preferred)
  • Experience with Amazon Q in Connect agent assist (preferred)
  • Experience with Amazon Bedrock, prompt engineering, and guardrails (preferred)
  • Knowledge of RAG architectures, OpenSearch vector search (k-NN / HNSW) (preferred)
  • Familiarity with AWS WAF, CloudFront, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Athena, Glue (preferred)
  • Understanding of privacy and compliance concepts (PII, data retention, FISMA/FedRAMP) (preferred)
  • AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, AI Specialty, DevOps, Security) (preferred)

Salary (Rate): £49.00 hourly

City: Washington

Country: United States

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Description

We are seeking an early-career GenAI Application Developer to design, build, and enhance AI-powered applications for an AWS-based Contact Center as a Service (CCAS) platform. This role focuses on conversational AI, intelligent automation, and generative AI-driven customer and agent experiences using services such as Amazon Connect, Lex V2, Amazon Q in Connect, Contact Lens, Bedrock, OpenSearch, and AWS Lambda (Python).

You will work closely with senior engineers, UI/UX designers, and cloud teams to implement voice and chat automation, agent assist features, secure AI orchestration, and supporting APIs and data pipelines-all within a security- and compliance-focused environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to grow as a software developer while contributing to impactful, production-grade AI solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

Amazon Connect Application Development

  • Design, build, and maintain Amazon Connect contact flows, routing profiles, and queues for voice and chat
  • Integrate Amazon Lex V2 bots for call deflection, self-service workflows, and escalation
  • Configure Contact Lens for transcription, summarization, sentiment analysis, QA insights, and redaction
  • Configure Amazon Q in Connect domains, knowledge sources, guided workflows, and agent assist capabilities
  • Implement secure S3-based transcript storage with encryption, lifecycle policies, and retention controls

eAI Orchestration & Backend Services
  • Develop AWS Lambda (Python) functions to orchestrate:
  • Amazon Bedrock LLM calls
  • Embeddings workflows
  • Model invocation logging and observability
  • Implement OpenSearch indexing, keyword/vector queries, and ingestion triggers
  • Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to support agent assist and self-service knowledge
  • Apply structured logging, testing, error handling, and performance/cost safeguards

Data Safety, Security & Compliance
  • Implement AI guardrails, prompt templates, and output evaluation mechanisms
  • Enforce PII redaction and minimization across conversation logs
  • Participate in threat modeling and remediation for contact center integrations

Web, Chat & Integration Support
  • Support CloudFront + WAF configurations for secure web chat entry points
  • Build APIs and event hooks to pass context between web chat, Amazon Connect, and AI services

DevSecOps & Operations
  • Contribute to Git-based CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and documentation
  • Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and architecture diagrams
  • Create and monitor CloudWatch dashboards and alarms for:
  • Call deflection rate
  • Average Handle Time (AHT)
  • Contact resolution
  • AI usage metrics


Requirements

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 2-4 years of experience, OR a Master's degree
  • 2+ years of software development experience with Python, including AWS Lambda
  • Hands-on experience configuring Amazon Connect (contact flows, routing, queues, voice/chat)
  • Experience integrating Amazon Lex V2 with Connect flows
  • Familiarity with conversational AI design (slot filling, error handling, fallback patterns)
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (CloudFormation)
  • Git-based CI/CD workflows
  • Foundational AWS security knowledge (IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, logging/monitoring)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with full Amazon Connect deployments and telephony configuration
  • Experience enabling Contact Lens analytics and compliance features
  • Experience with Amazon Q in Connect agent assist
  • Experience with Amazon Bedrock, prompt engineering, and guardrails
  • Knowledge of RAG architectures, OpenSearch vector search (k-NN / HNSW)
  • Familiarity with AWS WAF, CloudFront, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Athena, Glue
  • Understanding of privacy and compliance concepts (PII, data retention, FISMA/FedRAMP)
  • AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, AI Specialty, DevOps, Security)


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