Self Service & AI Implementation Principal Consultant

Genesys•Raleigh, NC

11d•$110,600 - $194,400•Remote

About The Position

The SS&AI (Self Service and Artificial Intelligence) Team is a Professional Services team responsible for the design, development and testing of highly customized Self-service IVR and AI driven Bot applications (Virtual Agents), generative AI bots and Agentic Virtual Agents across all Genesys platforms. In this role, candidate will get exciting opportunities to work on latest AI technologies to provide top class CX using inhouse Genesys bots as well as – Google, Amazon, and others. Services provided by the candidate will include software development and Architecture design, Integration consulting, Agile leadership, customer training, team education and owning end to end delivery.

Requirements

BS/MS/BA or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related field preferred.
10 + Years of experience with commercial IVR applications, Routing, Bots and development experience in appropriate development tools, Advanced Speech Recognition engines.
Additional computer languages such as PHP, Java or C# is a plus.
5+ Years of experience working with voice (and/or digital) bots on platforms like Google Dialogflow and Amazon Lex.
Must include webhook/fulfillment experience and development skills.
Demonstrated Understanding of and experience with the effective use of Generative and Agentic AI tools.
Demonstrated experience in a customer facing role and handled difficult customer situations and being a thought leader for effective client consulting.
Understanding of the IVR application architecture including web components, telephony, caching, prompt servers, ASR and operational diagnostics.
Ability to work independently on routine duties or projects with general instructions on new assignments.
Ability to take initiative and help define and create new product features.
Excellent verbal, writing skills and the ability to effectively interact with clients (business and technical audiences).

Nice To Haves

Practical experience developing and deploying Genesys solutions with Genesys tools such as Genesys Cloud, Architect, Dialog Engine, Composer, Designer and Intelligent Automation.
Experience with Google Dialog flow and Amazon Lex.
Genesys GCP or AWS certification.
Bot and intent tuning.

Responsibilities

Responsible for managing project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization.
Participate in customer workshops and design call flows using our products using design best practices and awareness of product nuances.
Work Independently, and with Genesys technical teams and business partners, to design, develop and maintain IVR’s, NLU Intent-based Bots and routing applications for DTMF and speech interactions, Virtual Agents, and Agentic Virtual Agents.
Experience defining ASR grammars, and tuning process.
Create accurate development effort estimates in collaboration with the team manager, Professional Services project managers or regional managers.
Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of broadly defined variables.
Requires conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications.
Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Accountable for results, which may impact their entire function or geography.
Work with Product owner, Scrum master to drive user story creation and ownership for SS&AI owned epics for IVR, Routing and bots.
Lead the SS&AI team delivery.
Present and demonstrate proposed IVR solutions as required.
Perform knowledge transfer of the delivered solutions at the conclusion of the engagement as necessary.
Create and execute test scripts for call flow and other logic and leverage existing Genesys tools (logs, reporting) to provide UAT and QA support.
Communicate within the global community respecting cultural, language and time zone variations.
Demonstrate flexibility to adjust working hours to match customer and team interactions.
Work as a team player to the organization.
Providing feedback to the product organization about issues found in API’s, product, documentation or architectures.
Work independently to provide customer technical consulting services to help drive the determination of key deliverables, outcomes, code best practices, and deployments.