Senior Platform & API Integration Lead

84 Recruitment; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

84 Recruitment is seeking an experienced Technical Lead for an Auckland-based, hybrid role focused on integration and platform engineering. You’ll own the MuleSoft integration platform, set standards, write patterns, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

This is hands-on leadership, not people management, driving complex enterprise solutions aligned to business outcomes. Working within the Platform Engineering practice, you’ll partner with architects, product and delivery squads to

Qualifications

• Around 10 years designing enterprise integration solutions.
• Hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint — Studio, API Manager, DataWeave, and CloudHub or Runtime Fabric.
• Strong API-led connectivity architecture, REST, asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration patterns.
• Real DevOps depth: pipelines you built and owned yourself, Infrastructure as Code, and automation as a default habit.
• Experience working in Azure environments.
• A track record of establishing integration standards, reusable frameworks and governance practices and getting them adopted.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, with the ability to influence technical decisions at every level.
• A genuine appetite for mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the MuleSoft platform and standards.
• Design scalable API-led connectivity solutions.
• Establish integration standards, patterns and reusable frameworks.
• Support API governance and lifecycle management.
• Drive integration platform modernisation initiatives.
• Champion DevOps engineering practices across the team.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code implementation across Azure environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive platform automation, and improve security, observability and resilience.
• Establish reusable cloud platform patterns and guide teams on how to use them.
• Mentor engineers and align work with business outcomes.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint

API-led connectivity

REST & messaging

DevOps / IaC

Azure environments

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure API Management

Confluent Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

84 Recruitment is seeking an experienced Technical Lead for an Auckland-based, hybrid role focused on integration and platform engineering. You’ll own the MuleSoft integration platform, set standards, write patterns, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

This is hands-on leadership, not people management, driving complex enterprise solutions aligned to business outcomes. Working within the Platform Engineering practice, you’ll partner with architects, product and delivery squads to