MuleSoft Application Architect

Responsibilities:

Enterprise-Level Architecture: Provide holistic, enterprise-level architectural guidance for MuleSoft implementations, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy and IT architecture.

MuleSoft Architectural Decisions: Define and document MuleSoft architectural patterns, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability of integration solutions.

Solution Design: Design complex and robust integration solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, encompassing API design, integration flows, data transformations, and error handling.

Security Architecture: Define and implement MuleSoft security architectures, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and API security policies, to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance.

Integration Patterns: Select and apply appropriate integration patterns (e.g., pub/sub, request/reply, orchestration, choreography) to address diverse integration requirements.

API Strategy: Develop and promote an API-led connectivity approach, defining API lifecycle management processes, API governance frameworks, and API documentation standards.

Performance and Scalability: Design MuleSoft solutions that meet stringent performance and scalability requirements, optimizing integration flows and leveraging MuleSoft's performance tuning capabilities.

Platform Governance: Establish MuleSoft platform governance policies and procedures to ensure adherence to architectural standards, promote reuse, and control the evolution of the integration landscape.

Technology Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, mentoring junior architects and developers on MuleSoft best practices and architectural principles.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, IT leadership, and other architects to gather requirements, define integration needs, and communicate architectural decisions.

Risk Management: Identify and mitigate potential architectural risks, ensuring the stability, reliability, and security of MuleSoft integrations.

Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including solution designs, API specifications, and integration patterns.

Qualifications:

Essential Experience:

Extensive experience as an Application Architect, with a focus on integration technologies.

Deep and demonstrable expertise in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, including API Design, Runtime Manager, and Exchange.

Proven ability to design and implement complex integration solutions using MuleSoft.

Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Significant experience in defining and implementing security architectures for integration solutions, including OAuth, SAML, and API security best practices.

Technical Skills:

Proficiency in designing RESTful APIs and SOAP web services.

Solid understanding of data transformation and mapping techniques.

Experience with various messaging protocols (e.g., JMS, AMQP) and integration adapters.

Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their integration capabilities.

Knowledge of database technologies (e.g., relational, NoSQL) and data access patterns.

Preferred Skills:

Experience with other integration technologies (e.g., IBM Integration Bus, TIBCO, Oracle SOA Suite) is a plus.

Knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD and automated deployment of integration solutions.

Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).