MuleSoft Tech Lead - Hybrid API & Integration Architect

Cognizant; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

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 on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. You will lead API design, data transformations, and system integrations across enterprise apps in a hybrid setting requiring 2 days per week in our San Francisco offices.

Responsibilities include driving the API lifecycle, establishing security standards, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product, infrastructure, and cloud teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of enterprise integration experience.
• Strong hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise.
• Experience with end-to-end API lifecycle and security.
• MuleSoft Certification or equivalent certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable integrations 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 leadership for solution architecture and code reviews.
• Implement auth, encryption, logging, monitoring and alerting controls.
• Optimize performance, availability and resilience of integrations.
• Collaborate with product owners and cloud teams to translate requirements.
• Maintain architecture documents and mentor engineers.

Skills

MuleSoft

API-led design

AWS Kiro

Security

Architecture leadership

DataWeave

Hybrid delivery

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

API Manager

AWS Kiro

DataWeave

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. You will lead API design, data transformations, and system integrations across enterprise apps in a hybrid setting requiring 2 days per week in our San Francisco offices.

Responsibilities include driving the API lifecycle, establishing security standards, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product, infrastructure, and cloud teams to deliver