Practice Manager – MuleSoft Professional Services
MuleSoft’s Professional Services team works across technology and business stakeholders to usher customers into the next phase of their business transformation journey and achieve innovative outcomes that shape the future.
As a Practice Manager, you get to:
- Lead a team of technical architects and consultants as they deliver MuleSoft solutions to customers.
- Build our practice through leading internal initiatives, contributing to the technical practice business plan, developing methodology, creating team enablement, onboarding new architects, and recruiting to build the team.
- Work 50% billable while collaborating with customers and partners to solve critically important business challenges using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform.
- Lead customer, partner, and MuleSoft technical teams through multi-phased delivery projects and provide hands‑on delivery guidance to influence standards for development, governance, and the operational life cycle.
- Be a key member of the cross‑functional Mulesoft leadership team, collaborating with Sales, Customer Success, Pre‑Sales, and Product teams.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience leading by example and being a player and a coach.
- Professional services leadership background with a strong consulting history in a credible system integrator firm or high‑growth enterprise software vendor.
- Collaborative mindset and ability to gain trust with team members and across internal and external functional leaders.
- Experience architecting MuleSoft services integrations, including on‑premise and cloud‑based infrastructures, SDLC pipelines, configuration, and deployment; strong knowledge of API and integration security, authentication, and authorization.
- 6‑10 years of proven track record leading integration teams and architecting solutions for diverse technical teams, system integrators, contractors, and internal teams.
- Background in conducting technical workshops with technical and business clients to drive effective services and implementations.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple yet comprehensive way to non‑technical and technical professionals alike.
- Desire for continuous learning of new technologies and involvement in projects that push existing capabilities.
- Appreciation for operational excellence in bookings, utilization forecasting, and contract terms.
- Excellent verbal and written technical documentation skills.
- Experience managing people and projects in a matrixed environment.
- Ability to motivate people, instill accountability, and achieve results.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, impeccable organizational and time‑management skills.
- Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications, and prioritizing on the fly.
- Knowledge of MuleSoft AI developments such as Mule AI Chain, Topic Center, API Catalog, MCP, Agentforce Connectors.
- Familiarity with AI & ML concepts, including predictive and generative AI, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Agentic AI.
- Passion for continuous learning and experimentation with emerging AI technologies, including prompt engineering, new LLM models, and agentic AI frameworks.
- Good to have – Basic understanding of Agentforce and building AI agents.
Desired Skills
- Experience developing with Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines.
- Knowledge of publish & subscribe integration design models.
- Experience using Jenkins and Nexus technologies.
- Experience with solutions on Salesforce products/platform technologies; experience building Service Cloud applications is a definite plus.
- Ability to learn quickly in a highly dynamic environment.
- Ownership of project delivery and capacity to multi‑task across multiple projects or feature developments.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent desired; Master’s preferred.
Accommodations
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request via the Accommodations Request Form.
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