MuleSoft Tech Lead - Hybrid API & Integration Architect

Cognizant; Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays + PTO

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform. You will drive API-enabled connectivity across utilities and enterprise systems, with a focus on secure, scalable integrations and data transformations.

The role is hybrid, requiring two days per week in a Cognizant office in San Francisco, CA. You will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and cloud teams to deliver timely,

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience with leadership.
• Strong hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise.
• Experience with API Manager and end-to-end API lifecycle.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or similar AI-assisted engineering tools.
• MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable MuleSoft integrations.
• Drive end-to-end API lifecycle, governance, and monitoring.
• Define reusable API-led integration patterns and security standards.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across MuleSoft and AWS components.
• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, and alerts.
• Optimize performance and resilience of outage-related integrations.
• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, and cloud teams to translate requirements.
• Maintain architecture docs and mentor engineers.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API lifecycle management

AWS Kiro experience

API security

Solution architecture leadership

Tools

MuleSoft API Manager

DataWeave

AWS tooling

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform. You will drive API-enabled connectivity across utilities and enterprise systems, with a focus on secure, scalable integrations and data transformations.

The role is hybrid, requiring two days per week in a Cognizant office in San Francisco, CA. You will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and cloud teams to deliver timely,