Hybrid MuleSoft API Lead - Integrations Architect

Cognizant; Little Rock (AR); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. You will lead API-led connectivity, data transformations, and secure system integrations across enterprise applications.

This hybrid role requires 2 days per week in a Cognizant office in San Francisco, CA, with focus on API lifecycle management, architecture, and mentoring engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient integrations for utilities and other critical

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience with leadership in complex solutions.
• Deep MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise including API-led connectivity and troubleshooting.
• End-to-end API lifecycle management, governance, and analytics experience.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or similar AI-assisted engineering tools for designs and docs.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable MuleSoft integration solutions.
• Drive end-to-end API lifecycle from design to monitoring and governance.
• Define reusable integration patterns and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across MuleSoft and AWS components.
• Implement authentication, encryption, logging, and monitoring controls.
• Optimize performance, availability, and incident response for integrations.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and cloud teams to translate requirements.
• Maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and mentor engineers.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API-led connectivity

API Manager

DataWeave

AWS

Technical leadership

API security

Tools

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. You will lead API-led connectivity, data transformations, and secure system integrations across enterprise applications.

This hybrid role requires 2 days per week in a Cognizant office in San Francisco, CA, with focus on API lifecycle management, architecture, and mentoring engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient integrations for utilities and other critical