Hybrid MuleSoft Tech Lead — API & Integration Architect

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); 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 architect, implement, and maintain integration solutions across enterprise systems using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. You will lead API design, security, deployment, and governance while mentoring engineers in a hybrid work setup.

Responsibilities include hands-on leadership for solution architecture, performance tuning, and incident response. Collaboration with product owners and cloud teams is essential to translate requirements into scalable

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience.
• Hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise.
• End-to-end API lifecycle management experience.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or similar AI-assisted tools.
• Strong security, logging, monitoring and HA practices.
• MuleSoft certification and hybrid delivery coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable integration solutions using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Drive API lifecycle through API Manager and MuleSoft capabilities, including governance and monitoring.
• Define reusable API-led integration patterns and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for architecture, development, testing and code reviews.
• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, monitoring and alerting controls.
• Optimize performance, availability and resilience of integrations for outage workflows.
• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, utilities SMEs, infra and cloud teams.
• Maintain architecture docs, mappings, and runbooks; mentor engineers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring engineers

Education

MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API Manager

DataWeave

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to architect, implement, and maintain integration solutions across enterprise systems using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. You will lead API design, security, deployment, and governance while mentoring engineers in a hybrid work setup.

Responsibilities include hands-on leadership for solution architecture, performance tuning, and incident response. Collaboration with product owners and cloud teams is essential to translate requirements into scalable