Senior MuleSoft API Lead — Hybrid, SF

Cognizant; Lincoln (NE); 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

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 API-led connectivity, data transformations, and secure system integrations across enterprise applications.

You will lead architecture, development, and governance, with hands-on guidance to the team, and work in a hybrid setup requiring 2 days weekly at a Cognizant office in San Francisco, CA.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise integration experience (10–13 years) with proven technical leadership.
• Deep MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise including API-led connectivity and DataWeave.
• End-to-end API lifecycle management, governance, analytics, and monitoring.
• Experience with AWS Kiro or equivalent AI-assisted design tools.
• Strong knowledge of authentication, encryption, and secure data handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable MuleSoft integration solutions.
• Drive end-to-end API lifecycle including design, deployment, governance, and monitoring.
• Define reusable integration patterns and security standards for enterprise use.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, development, testing, and QA.
• Implement controls for authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, and incident response.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, infrastructure, and cloud teams to translate requirements into designs.

Skills

MuleSoft Anypoint

API lifecycle

AWS integration

Security & compliance

Solution architecture

Leadership

Tools

API Manager

MuleSoft tooling

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a MuleSoft Tech Lead to design, build, and maintain integration solutions on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. The role emphasizes API-led connectivity, data transformations, and secure system integrations across enterprise applications.

You will lead architecture, development, and governance, with hands-on guidance to the team, and work in a hybrid setup requiring 2 days weekly at a Cognizant office in San Francisco, CA.