Mulesoft Architect

Job Title: Senior MuleSoft Integration Lead Location: Washington (Remote) Type: Contract Primary Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership for MuleSoft development, architecture, troubleshooting, and production support. Serve as the technical lead for MuleSoft developers, offshore teams, vendors, and client technical resources. Lead architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support of MuleSoft APIs and integration services. Own production stability, participate in Sev1/Sev2 incident response, lead root cause analysis, and drive permanent corrective actions. Review and optimize existing APIs, CI/CD pipelines, repositories, runtime environments, and operational processes. Establish standards for logging, monitoring, alerting, exception handling, API versioning, security, and deployment governance. Perform architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, release readiness assessments, and operational readiness reviews. Develop and maintain runbooks, integration inventories, API catalogs, architecture diagrams, dependency maps, deployment guides, and knowledge-transfer documentation. Drive API governance, reusable integration patterns, technical debt reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives. Provide executive-level technical status, risks, recommendations, and remediation plans.

Required Experience

10+ years of enterprise application development, systems integration, or enterprise technology delivery. 5+ years of hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform experience. 3+ years leading technical teams, mentoring developers, and performing code/design reviews. Experience with Salesforce, ServiceNow, REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, DataWeave 2.x, RAML/OpenAPI. Experience with API Manager, Runtime Manager, Exchange, CloudHub 2.0 and/or Runtime Fabric, CI/CD, Git, Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitHub Actions. Experience supporting production environments including monitoring, performance tuning, deployment governance, release validation, and RCA. Experience with OAuth, JWT, Mutual TLS, API security policies, secrets and certificate management.

Preferred Experience

Texas DIR, SLED, public sector, or managed services environments. ITIL, DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics. MuleSoft Certified Developer Level 1 required; Integration Architect or Platform Architect preferred.

Operational Accountability

Own API availability, deployment quality, MTTR improvement, release success rate, SLA compliance, and reduction of recurring incidents. Participate in scheduled on-call rotations, maintenance windows, and emergency production support.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Authorized to work in the United States. Available to support Client operating hours and limited travel as required.

Key Deliverables:

• API Catalog and Integration Inventory
• Architecture Diagrams and Interface Specifications
• Operational Runbooks and Support Procedures
• Deployment and Rollback Documentation
• Known Error Database and Technical Debt Register
• Knowledge Transfer Materials and Executive Status Reports

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