Mulesoft Integration Senior Architect- Missionforce

Salesforce; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an Integration Solution Architect within MuleSoft Professional Services to drive enterprise-scale integration across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will mentor teams and deliver API-led connectivity solutions for key customers.

You will influence platform direction, enforce DevOps practices, and collaborate with executives to align architecture with business goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years IT experience with 5+ years leading integration and solution architecture initiatives.
• 2+ years hands-on MuleSoft experience and API-led connectivity design.
• Experience with HA, SDLC, and full API lifecycle management.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and executive briefing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex MuleSoft integration projects with API-led connectivity patterns.
• Define and scale enterprise integration best practices and reference architectures.
• Establish DevOps models, CI/CD pipelines, and API lifecycle governance.

Skills

MuleSoft Expertise

API-led Connectivity

SDLC Knowledge

Cloud/DevOps Concepts

Customer-facing Communication

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

CI/CD

Jenkins

Terraform

Git

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryCustomer Success Job DetailsAbout SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.As an Integration Technical Architect, be a subject-matter expert and mentor within MuleSoft Professional Services, driving enterprise-grade hybrid integration, API management, and infrastructure strategies for key customers, while coaching internal teams.

About the Role

Missionforce’s Professional Services team works across every technology and system to deliver solutions to customers in every industry. As an Integration Solution Architect on our Services team, you will enable customers to understand and employ MuleSoft technology hands-on while coaching and mentoring elite members of a fast-paced, growing organization. You will develop solutions to help customers realize their business goals and advise them on best practices for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid integration, and API management. The role requires you to be an influencer and thought leader with in-depth technical expertise, credibility, and field experience to establish yourself as a subject-matter expert in a company leading innovation within the integration services industry.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and govern the design of complex, multi-phased MuleSoft integration projects, ensuring adherence to API-led connectivity and integration patterns.
• Identify opportunities and efficiencies in customers IT operating model, and support implementation of the SLDC pipeline to get greater value out of the MuleSoft platform.
• Define and scale enterprise integration best practices, reference architectures, foundational assets, and API patterns to drive platform adoption and reuse.
• Establish and enforce DevOps models, CI/CD pipelines, and operational standards, including monitoring, alerting, and full API lifecycle management.

Key Deliverables

• Scale best practices globally through reusable assets, reference architectures, and implementations.
• Enable field teams and partners to boost delivery and customer success.
• Lead requirements workshops and deliver architectural blueprint documents to influence the strategic direction of projects.
• Guide product direction and feature delivery by identifying gaps and providing valuable insights to leadership.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to client executives and internal sales/delivery teams throughout the pre-sales and project delivery lifecycle.
• Mentor and coach junior architects, engineers, and consultants on technical design principles, implementation strategies, and customer-facing best practices.
• Drive decision-making for complex technical challenges, balancing scope, time‑to‑market, and technical debt across integration solutions.
• Engage with MuleSoft Product Management and Engineering to relay field feedback and influence the platform's future roadmap.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years leading complex integration and solution architecture initiatives.
• 2+ years of hands‑on MuleSoft experience or similar experience, including proficiency in designing and implementing API-led connectivity and integration patterns.
• Demonstrated expertise in High Availability (HA), Scalability, the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and full API lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise‑grade technical solutions meeting complex business requirements while evangelizing integration methodologies and supporting business case justification to C‑level executives.
• Experience defining full API life‑cycle management, from API design and integration development through to deployment, operations and governance.
• Exceptional customer‑facing communication and expectation management skills, including the ability to translate complex technical requirements into appropriate solution architectures and deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience managing and architecting for multiple technical integration projects using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) end‑to‑end, sometimes simultaneously.
• Demonstrated experience architecting services integrations with MuleSoft and the other solutions (e.g., IBM, BEA, Oracle Fusion, TIBCO, Dell Boomi, Progress Sonic, API Management solutions, etc.).
• Demonstrated understanding of API security principles, including authentication, authorization, and the application of security policies

Preferred Skills

• Active Secret level security clearance
• Integration and Architecture: Expertise in defining full API lifecycle management, SDLC, Microservices, and related architecture patterns (Service Mesh, Serverless).
• MuleSoft Platform Mastery: Deep experience designing API-led connectivity and architecture (System, Process, Experience APIs) and mastery of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform features (e.g., API Management, Exchange, Flex Gateway).
• Technical Workshops: Experience driving technical workshops with technical and business clients to derive value added services and implementations.
• Security & Compliance: Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, FISMA, HIPAA, SOX), experience configuring enterprise software for security compliance, and desired certifications (CKA, CISSP, CISM, or Security+).
• Cloud and DevOps: Multi‑cloud proficiency (AWS, Azure, GCP) and expertise in DevOps practices (Git, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD), including implementing multiple technical integration project SDLCs end‑to‑end.
• Networking & Infrastructure: Working knowledge of on‑premise/cloud/containerized‑based infrastructures, SDLC pipelines, deployments/configurations, and definition/evangelism of best practices/standards.
• Programming and Data: Proficiency in at least two of the following: Bash, Go, Python, Ruby, node.js, Rust, Java. Working knowledge of at least one RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB), NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), distributed key-value store (e.g. etcd), and Time-series DB (InfluxDB, TSDB).

Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation and your obtaining and maintaining the specific level of U.S. Government security clearance required for this role. U.S. citizenship (U.S. born or naturalized) required. This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

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The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $260,100 annually

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