Description
As an Integration Technical Architect, be a subject-matter expert and mentor within MuleSoft Professional Services, driving enterprise-grade hybrid integration, API management, and infrastructure strategies for key customers, while coaching internal teams.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead and govern the design of complex, multi-phased MuleSoft integration projects, ensuring adherence to API-led connectivity and integration patterns.
- Identify opportunities and efficiencies in customers' IT operating model, and support implementation of the SLDC pipeline to get greater value out of the MuleSoft platform.
- Define and scale enterprise integration best practices, reference architectures, foundational assets, and API patterns to drive platform adoption and reuse.
- Establish and enforce DevOps models, CI/CD pipelines, and operational standards, including monitoring, alerting, and full API lifecycle management.
Key Deliverables
- Scale best practices globally through reusable assets, reference architectures, and implementations.
- Enable field teams and partners to boost delivery and customer success.
- Lead requirements workshops and deliver architectural blueprint documents to influence the strategic direction of projects.
- Guide product direction and feature delivery by identifying gaps and providing valuable insights to leadership.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to client executives and internal sales/delivery teams throughout the pre-sales and project delivery lifecycle.
- Mentor and coach junior architects, engineers, and consultants on technical design principles, implementation strategies, and customer-facing best practices.
- Drive decision-making for complex technical challenges, balancing scope, time-to-market, and technical debt across integration solutions.
- Engage with MuleSoft Product Management and Engineering to relay field feedback and influence the platform's future roadmap.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years leading complex integration and solution architecture initiatives.
- 2+ years of hands-on MuleSoft experience or similar experience, including proficiency in designing and implementing API-led connectivity and integration patterns.
- Demonstrated expertise in High Availability (HA), Scalability, the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and full API lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions meeting complex business requirements while evangelizing integration methodologies and supporting business case justification to C-level executives.
- Experience defining full API life-cycle management, from API design and integration development through to deployment, operations and governance.
- Exceptional customer-facing communication and expectation management skills, including the ability to translate complex technical requirements into appropriate solution architectures and deliverables.
- Demonstrated experience managing and architecting for multiple technical integration projects using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) end-to-end, sometimes simultaneously
- Demonstrated experience architecting services integrations with MuleSoft and the other solutions (e.g., IBM, BEA, Oracle Fusion, TIBCO, Dell Boomi, Progress Sonic, API Management solutions, etc.)
- Demonstrated understanding of API security principles, including authentication, authorization, and the application of security policies