Even though the official AWS documentation says we may apply the annotation @DynamoDBAttribute class field, I could not make it work like this. However, as seen in this AWS example, I could apply without any problem the annotation to the getter methods.

Please try the following:

    @DynamoDBTable(tableName = "opx_user_profiles")
    public class UserProfileEntity implements Serializable
    {

        public static final String USER_PROFILE_ID="user_profile_id";
        ...
        private Integer userProfileId;
        ...    
        @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = USER_PROFILE_ID)
        public Integer getUserProfileID()
        {
            return userProfileId;
        }

        public void setUserProfileID(Integer userProfileId)
        {
            this.userProfileId = userProfileId;
        }
        ...
    }

I reached to the solution using the below code. With only @DynamoDBTypeConvertedJSON, I was able to create an entry in the table but not update it as I was running into mapping Dynamo DB mapping exception.

@Data
@Builder
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
@DynamoDBTable(tableName = TABLE_NAME)
public class EmployeeData {

    public final static String TABLE_NAME = "EmployeeData";

    public final static String DDB_ATTR_ID = "Id";

    public final static String DDB_ATTR_EMPLOYEE_LEVEL_RECORD_TRAIL = "EmployeeLevelRecordTrail";

    @DynamoDBHashKey(attributeName = DDB_ATTR_ID)
    @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = DDB_ATTR_ID)
    private String id;

    @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = DDB_ATTR_EMPLOYEE_LEVEL_RECORD_TRAIL)
    @DynamoDBTypeConverted(converter = EmployeeLevelRecordTrailConverter.class)
    private  EmployeeLevelRecordTrail  employeeLevelRecordTrail;

    @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = DDB_ATTR_CREATED_TIME)
    @DynamoDBTypeConverted(converter = InstantConverter.class)
    private Instant joiningTime;
}



@Data
@Builder
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
public class EmployeeLevelRecordTrail {

    private List<EmployeeLevelRecord> thisEmployeeLevelRecords;

    public void appendEmployeeLevelRecord(@NonNull EmployeeLevelRecord employeeLevelRecord) {

        thisEmployeeLevelRecords.add(employeeLevelRecord);

    }
}


@Data
@Builder
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
@DynamoDBDocument
public class EmployeeLevelRecord {

    private String Level;

    private String Manager;

    @DynamoDBTypeConverted(converter = InstantConverter.class)
    private Instant timeOfEvent;

}

public class EmployeeLevelRecordTrailConverter implements
        DynamoDBTypeConverter<List<EmployeeLevelRecord>, EmployeeLevelRecordTrail> {

    @Override
    public List<EmployeeLevelRecord> convert(EmployeeLevelRecordTrail employeeLevelRecordTrail) {
        return employeeLevelRecordTrail.getEmployeeLevelRecord();
    }

    @Override
    public EmployeeLevelRecordTrail unconvert(List<EmployeeLevelRecord> thisEmployeeLevelRecords) {
        return new EmployeeLevelRecordTrail(thisEmployeeLevelRecords);
    }
}

public class InstantConverter implements DynamoDBTypeConverter<String, Instant> {

    private static final DateTimeFormatter DATE_TIME_FORMATTER = DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT;

    @Override
    public String convert(Instant instant) {
        return instant == null ? null : DATE_TIME_FORMATTER.format(instant);
    }

    @Override
    public Instant unconvert(String str) {
        return str == null ? null : Instant.from(DATE_TIME_FORMATTER.parse(str));
    }
}

Reading the documentation on how to do mapping helped.