Hybrid MuleSoft Tech Lead: API-Driven Integration Architect

Cognizant; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

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 across enterprise apps using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform. This role emphasizes API design, data transformations, and secure, scalable service integrations.

You will lead end‑to‑end API lifecycle, collaborate with utilities and cloud teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring governance, performance, and reliability across mission‑critical integrations.

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform including API led connectivity, Mule applications, integration patterns, DataWeave, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Deep experience with API Manager and end‑to‑end API lifecycle management, including design, governance, policy enforcement, analytics, versioning, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable integration solutions using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Drive the end‑to‑end API lifecycle through API Manager and MuleSoft capabilities, including design, deployment, governance, and monitoring.
• Define reusable API‑led integration patterns, frameworks, payload structures, and security standards.

Skills

Leadership

API design

Hybrid delivery coordination

Education

MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API Manager

DataWeave

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions across enterprise apps using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform. This role emphasizes API design, data transformations, and secure, scalable service integrations.

You will lead end‑to‑end API lifecycle, collaborate with utilities and cloud teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring governance, performance, and reliability across mission‑critical integrations.