Senior MuleSoft Integration Lead

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