MuleSoft Tech Lead — API & Integration Architect (Hybrid)

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + 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 highly skilled MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain enterprise integration solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and AWS Kiro. You will lead API design, data transformations, security, and governance while mentoring engineers and driving architecture decisions.

The role is hybrid, requiring 2 days per week in San Francisco, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cross‑functional collaboration with product, analytics, and cloud teams.

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience with proven technical leadership.
• Strong hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise including API-led connectivity.
• Deep experience with API Manager and end-to-end API lifecycle management.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or equivalent AI-assisted design tools.
• MuleSoft certification and stakeholder coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable integrations using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Drive the end-to-end API lifecycle including design, deployment, governance, policy enforcement, analytics, and monitoring.
• Define reusable API-led integration patterns, frameworks, payload structures, and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, development, troubleshooting, code reviews, testing, and QA.
• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, monitoring, and alerting controls.
• Optimize performance, availability, and resilience of integrations supporting outage workflows.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, utilities SMEs, infrastructure and cloud teams.
• Maintain architecture documents, mapping specifications, and operational runbooks; mentor engineers.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API-led connectivity

DataWeave

API lifecycle management

Team leadership

Education

MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain enterprise integration solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and AWS Kiro. You will lead API design, data transformations, security, and governance while mentoring engineers and driving architecture decisions.

The role is hybrid, requiring 2 days per week in San Francisco, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cross‑functional collaboration with product, analytics, and cloud teams.