Lead MuleSoft Platform & Integration Architect

Global Payments Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Lead MuleSoft Platform & Integration Architect to join Cloud Engineering – Boarding. You will drive the strategy, reliability and evolution of the enterprise integration ecosystem, ensuring secure, scalable platforms and APIs that power global commerce.

Lead modernization efforts, govern MuleSoft environments, and mentor teams to accelerate delivery quality while reducing technical debt and improving operational efficiency across global operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise technology, software engineering or systems integration.
• Proven success designing and governing large-scale API-led integration architectures.
• Deep expertise with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform environments, governance, runtime, security and observability.
• Strong ability to lead technical strategy and translate decisions to business value.
• Track record of modernization, operational improvements, and standards adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute MuleSoft platform strategy with scalable architecture patterns and roadmaps.
• Own performance, reliability, security of the Anypoint Platform and drive improvements.
• Lead modernization initiatives to reduce technical debt and increase scalability.
• Influence engineering through architecture reviews, reusable frameworks, and governance.
• Build enterprise integration capabilities by enabling teams and driving best practices adoption.

Skills

Enterprise integration architecture

Platform governance

API design

Leadership

MuleSoft expertise

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Job description

Job Description

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Lead MuleSoft Platform & Integration Architect to join our ever-evolving Cloud Engineering – Boarding team and help shape the future of global commerce. In this role, you will drive the strategy, reliability, and evolution of our enterprise integration ecosystem, ensuring the platforms and APIs that power critical business capabilities remain secure, scalable, and resilient. By combining architecture leadership with hands‑on ownership of the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, you will influence how teams connect systems, accelerate innovation, and deliver seamless experiences for clients around the world. Your expertise will help strengthen operational excellence, enable business growth, and support Global Payments’ mission to deliver trusted payment solutions that connect people, businesses, and economies globally.

What you’ll own

• Shape the future of enterprise integration by defining and executing the MuleSoft platform strategy, creating scalable architecture patterns and runtime roadmaps that improve agility, resilience, and long‑term business value.
• Own the performance, reliability, and security of the Anypoint Platform, driving measurable improvements in platform health, availability, governance, and service outcomes that support business‑critical operations.
• Lead modernization initiatives by evaluating current integration capabilities, identifying optimization opportunities, and delivering transformation plans that reduce technical debt, improve scalability, and increase operational efficiency.
• Influence engineering excellence across the organization through architecture reviews, reusable frameworks, governance standards, and technical enablement that accelerate delivery quality and consistency.
• Build and elevate enterprise integration capabilities by establishing enablement practices, mentoring teams, and driving adoption of best practices that strengthen organizational expertise and long‑term platform success.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software engineering, or systems integration, including significant experience delivering MuleSoft solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven success designing and governing large‑scale API‑led integration architectures that improve scalability, reliability, security, and business outcomes.
• Deep expertise administering MuleSoft Anypoint Platform environments, including platform governance, runtime management, security controls, observability, lifecycle management, and production operations.
• Strong ability to lead technical strategy, influence stakeholders, and translate complex architectural decisions into clear business value and actionable outcomes.
• Demonstrated track record of driving platform maturity, modernization initiatives, operational improvements, and enterprise‑wide adoption of integration standards and best practices.

It’s a bonus if you have

• MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, or related MuleSoft certifications.
• Experience building or scaling a MuleSoft Center for Enablement (C4E) or integration center of excellence.
• Experience within payments, financial services, or other highly regulated, high‑availability environments requiring strong governance and operational rigor.

About The Team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever‑evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Come and be part of an ever‑evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer.

EEOC Statement

Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.

If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.