Job#: 3045614 Job Description: GenAI CCAS Application Developer
Location: Remote with potential for quarterly travel to Gaithersburg, MD
Role Overview
This is an opening for an early-career GenAI Application Developer to build and enhance AI-powered applications for an AWS Contact Center As a Service (CCAS) platform. This software development role focuses on conversation flow design, Amazon Connect integrations, AI service orchestration, generative AI safety, and the creation of supporting APIs and data pipelines to improve customer experience through intelligent automation. You will work with senior developers, UI/UX designers, and cloud engineers to implement features that deflect customer contacts, optimize routing, provide real-time AI assistance, and ensure compliance controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, update, and maintain Amazon Connect contact flows, routing profiles, and queues for voice and chat channels.
- Integrate Lex V2 bots into Amazon Connect flows for call deflection, self-service transactions, and escalation.
- Enable and configure Contact Lens for real-time and post-contact analytics, transcription, and summarization.
- Configure Amazon Q in Connect domains, knowledge sources, and step-by-step agent assist experiences.
- Write AWS Lambda (Python) functions to orchestrate Bedrock LLM calls and embeddings workflows.
- Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to enhance agent assist and self-service knowledge.
- Implement AI guardrails, prompt templates, and output evaluation for safety and accuracy.
- Enforce PII minimization and redaction policies in conversation logs.
- Contribute to Git-based CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and documentation.
- Create and monitor CloudWatch dashboards for key performance metrics.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2-4 years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 1-2 years of prior relevant experience.
- 2+ years of software development experience with Python, including building and troubleshooting AWS Lambda functions.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Connect setup and configuration, including contact flows, routing profiles, and queues.
- Experience integrating Lex V2 bots with Amazon Connect flows.
- Familiarity with conversational AI design patterns.
- Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation) and Git-based CI/CD workflow experience.
- Foundational security knowledge, including least privilege IAM and encryption.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Practical exposure to full Amazon Connect deployments, including telephony setup and queue performance optimization.
- Experience with Amazon Q in Connect for agent assist workflows and knowledge retrieval.
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock (LLM and embeddings) and guardrails.
- Knowledge of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector search with AWS OpenSearch Service.
- Familiarity with KMS key policies and S3 data protection.
- Experience with AWS WAF and CloudFront.
- Observability and analytics skills using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Athena/Glue.
- Understanding of privacy and compliance considerations.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS AI Specialty.
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Public Trust clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.
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