Global Technical Talent

Amazon Connect Staff Engineer (Remote)


PayCompetitive
LocationChevy Chase/Maryland
Employment typeOther

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  • Job Description

      Req#: 24-05266
      Amazon Connect Staff Engineer
      • Duration: 3-month contract/ Right to hire
      • Contract hourly pay rate up to $90/hr
      • Location: 100% Remote
      • Because this position has the option to go from contract to full-time, we can only accept candidates with the work authorization of a US Citizen or Green Card.

      Job Description
      • Our Client's Enterprise Voice team is seeking a highly motivated, process-oriented Software Engineer for our contact center technologies.
      • You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experience for our customers.

      Position Description
      • Our Staff Engineer is a mid-level member of the Voice engineering staff ensuring we provide a frictionless experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of security and availability.
      • Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly.
      • The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

      Job Responsibilities
      • The Staff Engineer provides technical architecture & leadership for a team within a domain or medium cross-functional projects, and mentors relatively junior engineers
      • Implement complex parts of a system or a product
      • Ship high-quality work following best practices, such as adequate testing, successful rollout, and consistent monitoring
      • Lead efforts that set the direction for the rest of the team
      • Propose short-term and long-term design solutions for pain points in the system or product with clear deliverables and action items
      • Defines metrics and solutions translating to increased service maturity
      • Demonstrates incident response and problem-determination leadership
      • Develop and obtain consensus on enterprise-wide guidelines and policies

      Qualifications
      • Advanced experience with Amazon Connect including Contact Flows, Security Profiles, Routing Profiles, Queues, Quick Connects
      • Advanced experience with Amazon Web Services including Lambda, Lex, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudWatch
      • Expert experience using multiple programming languages including Node.js, Python, C#
      • Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform
      • Experience integrating with internal and external applications
      • Expert in one or more areas of software, data, systems design, development, deployment and operation
      • Expert in cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, automation and plays a lead role in building scalable solutions
      • Expert in data ingestion and transformation
      • Contributed to improvements in organizational metrics such as DORA metrics that measure improvements in team velocity and stability of service delivery
      • Experience and understanding of Security Protocols and Products such as Active Directory, SAML, IAM
      • Communicate effectively with a diverse team and foster a culture of clear, concise, effective, audience-oriented communication on their team, ensuring teammates actively listen to others and are understood.
      • Actively demonstrates these behaviors.
      • Consistently helps their teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Gives or shares credit where due.
      • Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
      • AWS Certifications at the Associate, Professional, or Specialty Level

      Experience
      • 6+ years of experience in Contact Center technologies and Cloud Architecture
      • 6+ years of professional software development experience
      • 3+ years experience with architecture and design
      • 3+ years of hands-on experience developing Contact Flows, Routing Profiles, Queues Lambdas, and Lex Bots
      • 3+ years of experience using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code
      • 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
      • 1+ years of people management experience

      Education
      • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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  • About the company

      Global Technical Talent specializes in recruiting and pre-qualifying senior level IT professionals for clients' immediate long- and short-term contract needs, contract to hire and direct hire positions. Because we work exclusively with high level I...