MuleSoft & API Architecture Lead — Hybrid SF

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a MuleSoft Architect to design and lead enterprise integration using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and AWS Kiro, delivering API-led architectures for scalable, secure integrations.

The role requires collaboration with IT and business stakeholders, plus hands-on architecture governance, with a hybrid model and 2 days/week in San Francisco, CA. Excellent incentives and wellbeing programs are included.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise architecture and integration experience.
• Hands-on proficiency with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and AWS Kiro.
• Deep expertise in API lifecycle management, design, governance, and security policies.

Responsibilities

• Design resilient cloud and enterprise integration architectures using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Govern the end-to-end MuleSoft API lifecycle from design to retirement.
• Create reference architectures, reusable assets, data models, and event-driven patterns.
• Establish API security, versioning, observability, performance, and SLAs.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and development teams to translate requirements into technical designs.
• Review implementations and optimize MuleSoft message flows, transformations, and error handling.
• Lead architectural reviews, workshops, and incident remediation across distributed teams.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API-led connectivity

Enterprise architecture

Cloud technologies

Tools

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant seeks a MuleSoft Architect to design and lead enterprise integration using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and AWS Kiro, delivering API-led architectures for scalable, secure integrations.

The role requires collaboration with IT and business stakeholders, plus hands-on architecture governance, with a hybrid model and 2 days/week in San Francisco, CA. Excellent incentives and wellbeing programs are included.