Senior Delivery Consultant - Amazon Connect, AWS Professional Services

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster and at lower cost? Do you have a background in enterprise call centers, and a passion for driving innovation into existing IT organizations? Are you comfortable working on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high-impact projects blending the newest technology with existing operational methodologies and tooling? Are you passionate about helping customers solve the people, organizational and process issues preventing them realizing the benefits of cloud? At AWS, we’re hiring experienced consultants with a background in enterprise call centers to help our enterprise customers understand, plan and implement best practices around migrating, building, managing and operating Amazon Connect within their AWS cloud environments. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, re-usable artifacts, reference architectures, and lead implementation projects to assist some of the world’s leading enterprises transform their call centers to Amazon Connect. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about:
- Working on innovative AWS products and services
- Maintaining domain knowledge and expertise in enterprise call centers, workforce management, Artificial Intelligence and CRM platforms
- Implementing and extending frameworks and methodologies commonly used by enterprises to assess, migrate, and transform the call center experience
- Architecting and building large-scale solutions, which integrate smoothly in cloud and hybrid operating models for supporting Amazon Connect
- Providing guidance on the people, organizational, security and compliance aspects of transforming the contact center to the Cloud
- Setting-up and configuring AWS services in-line with best practices
- Coaching customers and partner teams to be self-sufficient

Key job responsibilities
- Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn how to build and move to production grade AWS environments that support Amazon Connect
- Solutions - Define and deliver on-site Professional Services engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in discovery workshops - understanding customer requirements, proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements, specifically focused on call center organization, processes, tooling and integration. Software development experience with building contact center integrations is a plus.
- Delivery - Engagements include projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include integration and adaption of existing enterprise call centers into Amazon Connect.

This is a customer facing role.

A day in the life
AWS Professional Services (ProServe) is a global team of consultants that helps enterprise customers achieve their business outcomes on AWS Cloud. ProServe consultants work with hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises to help them deliver their cloud initiatives.

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Internal job description

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
- 10+ years of cloud and on-premise integration experience
- 5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience
- Bachelor's degree, or 10+ years of professional or military experience
- At least 10 years of experience as a contact center technology architect, enterprise IT Architect or senior contact center developer working with leading contact center technology platforms and applications, such as Avaya, Cisco, Genesys, Verint, NICE, Salesforce, etc.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of experience building call center / collaboration / telephony platforms in a Cloud or On-Premises environment, particularly building application integration capabilities for CRM/ WFM platforms
- Professional Services or Consulting experience in highly-visible customer-facing roles
- Familiarity with Amazon Connect capabilities, benefits, and required deployment skills
- Visible IT Industry thought leadership on relevant topics related to enterprise IT call centers and infrastructure.
- Enterprise call center / telecomm implementation and operations experience
- Software Development / DevOps experience with integrating contact center platforms, CRMs, WFMs and AI

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