MuleSoft Architect

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Discovery & Design
2. Lead design discovery calls with business and technical stakeholders to capture requirements and assess integration needs.
3. Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications and solution designs.
4. Evaluate existing landscapes and propose target integration architectures aligned with API-led connectivity and enterprise standards.
5. Architecture & Documentation
6. Develop High-Level Designs (HLDs) that articulate architectural approaches, design decisions, and integration patterns.
7. Produce Low-Level Designs (LLDs) with sufficient technical depth to guide development teams, including field mappings, sequence diagrams, and error-handling strategies.
8. Ensure design consistency across synchronous, asynchronous, and event-driven integrations.
9. Integration Patterns & Best Practices
10. Select and apply appropriate integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, batch, pub/sub, etc.) based on system requirements and SLAs.
11. Design for scalability, security, observability, and maintainability within MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
12. Advocate and enforce best practices around RAML design, DataWeave transformations, error handling, versioning, and governance.
13. Technical Leadership
14. Collaborate with developers to ensure successful implementation of designed solutions.
15. Provide hands-on guidance when needed for complex flows, transformations, or performance tuning.
16. Support CI/CD, runtime deployment, and environment strategy discussions with DevOps teams.
17. Stakeholder Engagement

Present design options, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

 Key Skills & Experience

• Overall 10 years of experience in Integration projects implementation.
• 5+ Experience architecting solutions on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (API Manager, Runtime Manager, Exchange, MQ, etc.).
• Proven ability to run design discovery workshops and translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Expertise in integration design patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, batch, event-driven).
• Hands-on skills with RAML/OAS, DataWeave, and API specifications.
• Solid understanding of security (OAuth2, JWT, TLS, policies) and governance in MuleSoft.
• Strong background in producing HLDs and LLDs, with clear documentation of mapping, sequencing, and error-handling.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, runtime sizing, performance testing, and cloud deployment models.
• Able to simplify complex concepts for business users while diving deep with developers