MuleSoft Tech Lead — API Integrations & Architecture

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); 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 integration solutions across enterprise applications. The role emphasizes API-led connectivity, data transformations, and secure communications.

The position is hybrid, requiring 2 days per week in a Cognizant or client office in San Francisco, CA, with flexibility and a strong focus on outages management and performance. Experience leading teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience.
• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise with API-led connectivity.
• End-to-end API lifecycle management including design, governance, and analytics.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or similar tooling for design and workflow.
• Strong security, logging, and incident response capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable integration solutions using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Drive end-to-end API lifecycle management and governance.
• Define reusable integration patterns and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for architecture, development, and QA.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into designs.
• Maintain architecture docs and runbooks, mentor engineers.

Skills

API design

Leadership

Mentoring

Hybrid delivery

Security

Monitoring

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API Manager

DataWeave

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions across enterprise applications. The role emphasizes API-led connectivity, data transformations, and secure communications.

The position is hybrid, requiring 2 days per week in a Cognizant or client office in San Francisco, CA, with flexibility and a strong focus on outages management and performance. Experience leading teams is essential.