MuleSoft Tech Lead — API Integration Architect

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. The role emphasizes APIs, data transformations, and enterprise integration across systems, with strong leadership across teams.

You will guide API-driven integration, security, and operations, working in a hybrid model requiring two days per week in an office in San Francisco, CA, while enabling flexible collaboration and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience
• Strong hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise
• Experience with API Manager and end-to-end API lifecycle management
• Experience with AWS Kiro or similar AI-assisted engineering tools
• Strong knowledge of API and integration security and data protection
• Experience implementing resilient integration services with logging and monitoring
• Utilities domain experience, preferably outage management or service-status communication
• Certification: MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable integration solutions using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Drive end-to-end API lifecycle through API Manager and MuleSoft capabilities.
• Define reusable API-led integration patterns and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for architecture, development, testing and QA.
• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, monitoring, and alerting controls.
• Optimize performance and reliability of integrations for outage workflows.
• Collaborate with product owners and cloud teams to translate requirements into designs.
• Maintain architecture docs, mappings, and runbooks, mentoring engineers.

Skills

API design

Solution architecture leadership

API lifecycle management

Security practices

Education

MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. The role emphasizes APIs, data transformations, and enterprise integration across systems, with strong leadership across teams.

You will guide API-driven integration, security, and operations, working in a hybrid model requiring two days per week in an office in San Francisco, CA, while enabling flexible collaboration and continuous improvement.