MuleSoft Technical Lead

MuleSoft Technical Lead

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Remote (EST hours) Preference: Columbus, OH locals preferred

Overview

Lead the discovery, design, and delivery planning of enterprise integrations using MuleSoft. This role interfaces with product owners, business SMEs, enterprise architects, security, and source/target system teams to define integration requirements and translate them into a buildable MuleSoft backlog. The Technical Lead owns the integration solution design and provides day-to-day technical direction to an offshore delivery team, ensuring consistent implementation, quality, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Discovery & Impact Assessment

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand end-to-end process flows, integration touchpoints, and system-of-record boundaries
• Elicit and document functional and non-functional requirements (volumes, latency/SLAs, availability, RPO/RTO, security, compliance, audit)
• Inventory and validate integration dependencies: upstream/downstream systems, APIs/events/files, batch schedules, error handling expectations, and operational ownership
• Identify gaps in existing API contracts, data models, environments, access, and test data; drive actions to unblock delivery

Integration Architecture & Design (MuleSoft)

• Define target-state integration architecture using MuleSoft (API-led connectivity where appropriate: Experience / Process / System APIs)
• Produce architecture artifacts (context diagrams, sequence diagrams, interface contracts, error handling standards, and deployment view)
• Design API specifications (RAML/OAS as applicable), versioning strategy, compatibility approach, and deprecation plan
• Define integration patterns per use case:
  • Sync vs async
  • Event-driven vs request/response
  • Batch vs real-time
  • Idempotency/deduplication, retries, DLQ/replay strategy, and exception routing
• Ensure security-by-design (OAuth2/mTLS, client management, policy enforcement, secrets handling, least privilege)
• Define observability standards (correlation IDs, structured logging, dashboards/alerts, runbooks)

Delivery Decomposition & Team Leadership (Offshore Execution)

• Decompose designs into epics/stories/tasks with clear acceptance criteria, test strategy, and definition of done
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to offshore developers: code reviews, design walkthroughs, implementation patterns, and troubleshooting
• Establish working norms for distributed delivery (handoffs, overlap hours, backlog grooming, and technical checkpoints)
• Maintain delivery pace while protecting architectural integrity; manage technical debt consciously with transparent trade-offs

Governance, Quality, and Release Readiness

• Define and enforce MuleSoft development standards (naming, packaging, common libraries, error handling, logging, and performance)
• Partner with QA on a layered test approach (MUnit, contract testing, integration testing, performance testing)
• Support CI/CD and environment promotion practices (config separation, secrets, approvals, rollback strategy)
• Drive production readiness: operational runbooks, monitoring/alerting, support model, and incident response approach

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years in integration engineering, including 3+ years leading integration delivery teams
• Strong hands-on MuleSoft experience (Anypoint Platform) with proven delivery of multiple production integrations
• Solid integration architecture skills: API-led design, system/process/experience layering, reusable asset strategy
• Strong API design and lifecycle management: contract-first thinking, versioning, backward compatibility
• Deep understanding of integration reliability concerns: retries, idempotency, messaging patterns, error handling, resiliency controls
• Experience coordinating across a geographically dispersed team (onshore/offshore), with strong backlog decomposition and technical review practices
• Strong stakeholder management: able to translate ambiguous requirements into actionable delivery plans and influence cross-team decisions
• Working knowledge of security and compliance requirements for integrations (authN/authZ, encryption, auditability)

Nice to Have

• Experience with CloudHub and/or Runtime Fabric, and the deployment/operating model trade-offs
• Familiarity with Anypoint governance (API Manager policies, Exchange asset lifecycle, platform standards)
• Domain experience in wealth management / broker-dealer operations and advisor workflows
• Experience modernizing integration landscapes (reducing point-to-point, introducing canonical models/events, improving observability)