Director, Solution Architecture (Contact Center)
Optum · Eden Prairie, MN · 1 mo ago
Engineering$135k–$231k/yrFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Cloud Application & Service Development
- Design and build cloud native services using AWS primitives (Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB/RDS, S3, EventBridge, etc.)
- Develop Amazon Connect integrations, including contact flows, pre/post route services, agent assist hooks, and downstream data integrations
- Implement REST/event driven APIs that integrate Amazon Connect with SIP, bot, analytics, and healthcare platforms
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and/or Python Scripting
- Ensure repeatable, environment consistent deployments across DEV, STAGE, and PROD
- Partner with platform and security teams to meet enterprise cloud governance standards
- SIP Application Development
- Develop and maintain SIP services that manage call routing, transfers, session state, and header manipulation
- Implement support for call flows integrating carriers, SBCs, OCCAS, bots, and agent platforms
- Enhance SIP behavior to support new features such as consult, warm transfer, barge in, and failover patterns
- SIPREC, Recording & Media Integrations
- Build SIPREC routing and recording integrations supporting analytics, compliance, and agent assist use cases
- Partner with cloud and media teams to ensure reliable RTP and metadata capture
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Implement GitHub based CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments
- Embed automated testing, artifact scanning, and promotion controls
- Support trunk based development and safe production release patterns
- Security, Compliance & Cost Awareness
- Apply AWS security best practices including IAM least privilege, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit, and logging
- Support PCI aware and regulated workloads as part of cloud integrations
- Monitor and optimize cloud spend using FinOps principles
- Observability & Operations
- Implement logging, metrics, and tracing using CloudWatch and enterprise observability tooling
- Participate in production support, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Build operational runbooks and automation for day 2 support
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a Solution Architect
- 8+ years of experience developing SIP Based solutions and Cloud design (e.g. AWS application and infrastructure) including cloud networking, identity, security, and operational best practices
- 3+ years of experience designing, developing, or supporting enterprise contact center solutions, including voice and digital customer interaction platforms
- 2+ years of hands on experience with SIP solutioning (OCCAS), Amazon Connect or CCaaS integrations
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating Amazon Connect with SIP transport, bots, or voice analytics platforms
- Familiarity with regulated workloads (PCI, healthcare data flows)