Senior Applied AI Solutions Architect — Amazon Connect, Applied AI SA - AIVT
About the role
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. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
The Applied AI Solutions Architecture team within AWS is seeking a hands-on, customer-obsessed Solutions Architect to accelerate customer adoption of Amazon Connect's AI capabilities. This role is part of the AI Velocity Team — a service-specific approach that assigns dedicated advisory and hands-on development resources directly to customers to achieve production-ready outcomes in weeks instead of months.
Key job responsibilities
- Customer Engagement: Lead technical discovery sessions with customer teams to understand business requirements, existing contact center architecture, and AI readiness. Translate findings into actionable implementation plans.
- Customer Data Readiness: Conduct data readiness assessments to evaluate the quality, accessibility, structure, and governance of customer data assets (CRMs, knowledge bases, ticketing systems, order management, etc.). Identify data gaps, recommend remediation strategies, and help customers build the data foundation required for effective AI agent tool use and RAG-powered responses.
- Agentic AI Implementation: Design and configure agentic AI solutions within Amazon Connect, including AI agent creation, AI prompt engineering, model selection, guardrail configuration, and tool/action integration.
- MCP Server Configuration: Design and deploy Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that expose customer tools, data sources, and APIs in a standardized format — enabling AI agents to dynamically discover and invoke capabilities across the customer's technology stack.
- A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Integration: Architect Agent-to-Agent communication patterns that allow Amazon Connect AI agents to collaborate with specialized agents across the enterprise (e.g., billing agents, order management agents, IT support agents), enabling multi-agent workflows that span organizational boundaries.
- Integration Development: 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 (CRMs, ERPs, databases, knowledge bases).
- Cloud Data Access: Architect secure access patterns to cloud-based data systems (Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Kendra/Knowledge Bases for Bedrock) to power AI agent tool use and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Pre-Production Validation: Guide customers through testing, evaluation, and validation of AI agent performance against defined success criteria before production deployment.
- Knowledge Sharing: Create reusable artifacts (reference architectures, implementation guides, sample code, prompt libraries, data readiness checklists) that scale best practices across the Connect SA community and partner ecosystem.
- Service Team Collaboration: Provide feedback to Amazon Connect and Amazon Bedrock product teams based on real-world customer implementations, contributing to product roadmap prioritization.
A day in the life
- Pair-programming with customer developers to build and test AI agent configurations
- Designing prompt strategies and evaluating model performance across different foundation models
- Configuring MCP servers to expose customer APIs, databases, and tools in a standardized format for agent consumption
- Designing A2A workflows where Amazon Connect agents hand off to or collaborate with specialized agents across the customer's enterprise
- Configuring knowledge bases and data connectors for RAG-powered agent responses
- Conducting architecture reviews and providing prescriptive guidance for production readiness
- Documenting implementation patterns and contributing to the team's knowledge base
- Participating in weekly syncs with Connect service teams to share customer feedback and product insights
About the team
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture: AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
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Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ 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
- Familiarity with interoperability protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) for standardized tool integration and/or A2A (Agent-to-Agent) for multi-agent communication
- Demonstrated experience with AI/ML concepts including large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and model evaluation
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, including model invocation, agent creation, knowledge base configuration, and guardrails
- Experience with agentic AI patterns — multi-agent orchestration, tool use, function calling, chain-of-thought reasoning, and autonomous agent workflows
- Hands-on experience building and deploying MCP servers — exposing enterprise tools and APIs via Model Context Protocol for dynamic agent tool discovery and invocation
- 2+ years of contact center experience, or experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
Pay
- USA, CA, Mountain View: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
- USA, CO, Denver: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, GA, Atlanta: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, IL, Chicago: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Herndon: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave