Hybrid MuleSoft Tech Lead: API & Integration Architect

Cognizant; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, API-led connectivity, and AWS integrations.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, oversee architecture, coaching, testing, and governance across MuleSoft components, and collaborate with product, utilities, and cloud teams to deliver secure, scalable services in a hybrid delivery model.

Qualifications

• 10–13 years enterprise integration experience with leadership in delivering complex solutions.
• Hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise: API-led connectivity, Mule apps, DataWeave, deployment, troubleshooting.
• End-to-end API lifecycle knowledge: design, governance, analytics, versioning, monitoring.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or similar AI-assisted engineering tools for designs, code, tests, docs, workflows.
• Strong security knowledge: authentication, authorization, encryption, compliance controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable integration solutions using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Drive end-to-end API lifecycle management and governance.
• Define reusable API-led integration patterns and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for architecture, development, testing, and reviews.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting to protect data and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with product, analysts, utilities, infrastructure, and cloud teams for hybrid delivery.
• Maintain architecture docs, mappings, and runbooks; mentor engineers on API design and domain practices.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API lifecycle management

Security & governance

Leadership

AWS integration

Tools

MuleSoft API Manager

DataWeave

AWS Kiro

Security tooling

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, API-led connectivity, and AWS integrations.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, oversee architecture, coaching, testing, and governance across MuleSoft components, and collaborate with product, utilities, and cloud teams to deliver secure, scalable services in a hybrid delivery model.