MuleSoft Architect — Hybrid API & Cloud Integration Lead

Cognizant; Oklahoma City (OK); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Architect to design and lead enterprise integrations using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, AWS Kiro, and API-led architectures. This hybrid role requires 2 days per week in a Cognizant/San Francisco office, with flexibility and focus on scalable, secure solutions.

The candidate will provide technical leadership to delivery teams, govern the API lifecycle, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver resilient integration architectures that drive

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise architecture and integration experience with secure, scalable solutions.
• Hands-on proficiency with AWS Kiro and integration standards.
• Deep MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise and API lifecycle mastery.
• Advanced MuleSoft integration skills: connectors, flows, DataWeave.
• Outage-management domain knowledge and service continuity.
• Strong governance, documentation and stakeholder facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Design resilient cloud and enterprise integration architectures using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro, including design, implementation tasks, tests, and documentation.
• Define and govern the end-to-end MuleSoft API lifecycle from design to retirement, ensuring security and reuse.
• Create integration blueprints, reference architectures, reusable assets, and data models for system interoperability.
• Establish architecture standards for API security, versioning, observability, performance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, domain experts, and delivery teams to translate requirements into designs and roadmaps.
• Review implementations and optimize MuleSoft flows, transformations, and connectors for latency and reliability.
• Lead architectural reviews, workshops, incident analysis, and remediation across globally distributed teams in a hybrid model.
• Maintain API catalogs, architecture docs, and evaluate new MuleSoft/AWS capabilities; mentor teams.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

API lifecycle management

Technical leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

AWS

DataWeave

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Architect to design and lead enterprise integrations using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, AWS Kiro, and API-led architectures. This hybrid role requires 2 days per week in a Cognizant/San Francisco office, with flexibility and focus on scalable, secure solutions.

The candidate will provide technical leadership to delivery teams, govern the API lifecycle, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver resilient integration architectures that drive