Senior MuleSoft Architect: API Strategy & Cloud Integration

Cognizant; Jefferson City (MO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a highly skilled MuleSoft Architect to design and lead enterprise integration solutions using MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform. The role focuses on API-led architectures, secure integrations, and technical leadership for delivery teams within a hybrid model with two days/week in the San Francisco area.

The ideal candidate has deep MuleSoft, cloud, and API management expertise, plus experience guiding global teams and establishing standards for security, performance, and resilience.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise architecture and integration experience in multinational environments.
• Hands-on proficiency with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and API lifecycle management.
• Deep MuleSoft expertise including API design, governance, and deployment processes.
• Strong knowledge of API-led connectivity, DataWeave, and orchestration.
• Experience with cloud technologies and enterprise security controls.
• Excellent governance, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to mentor distributed teams in a hybrid, day-shift model.

Responsibilities

• Design resilient enterprise integration architectures using MuleSoft and AWS Kiro.
• Govern end-to-end MuleSoft API lifecycle from design to retirement.
• Create reference architectures, data models, and reusable integration assets.
• Set API security, versioning, observability, and performance standards.
• Collaborate with product owners and platform teams to translate requirements.
• Review implementations to improve latency, throughput, and resilience.
• Lead architectural reviews and workshops across distributed teams.
• Maintain API catalogs and architectural documentation; mentor staff.

Skills

MuleSoft

Anypoint Platform

API lifecycle

Enterprise integration

Cloud technologies

Tools

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

AWS Kiro

Job description

Cognizant seeks a highly skilled MuleSoft Architect to design and lead enterprise integration solutions using MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform. The role focuses on API-led architectures, secure integrations, and technical leadership for delivery teams within a hybrid model with two days/week in the San Francisco area.

The ideal candidate has deep MuleSoft, cloud, and API management expertise, plus experience guiding global teams and establishing standards for security, performance, and resilience.