MuleSoft & Azure API Architect

Overview

Sr Recruitment Specialist with 15+ years of experience (Masters in BA)

Location:
Remote

W2 Requirement

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Platform Architect with deep expertise in Mule Soft and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure API Management (APIM) to lead enterprise-scale API and integration initiatives. This role will provide strategic leadership, architectural oversight, and hands-on guidance across the full API lifecycle, ensuring scalability, performance, and governance for mission-critical systems. The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of technical depth, enterprise integration experience, and leadership skills, with the ability to define and execute an API strategy that aligns with enterprise architecture principles.

• API Architecture & Strategy
  • Lead API architecture, design, and coding for enterprise integrations across critical platforms.
  • Define and execute the end-to-end API lifecycle including design, development best practices, versioning, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
  • Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to establish and evolve API governance frameworks, security models, and performance optimization strategies.
  • Partner with stakeholders to shape the API strategy across Mule Soft and APIM, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Platform Optimization & Governance
  • Perform a comprehensive review and optimization of ~25+ existing enterprise APIs on Mule Soft, driving improvements in design, performance, security, and compliance.
  • Lead a Mule Soft platform assessment to enhance scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Provide leadership in the Mule Soft Cloud Hub 1.0 to 2.0 migration, ensuring adoption of new features and best practices.
  • Support hybrid coexistence and migration planning between Mule Soft and Microsoft APIM.
  • Establish enterprise-wide standards and best practices for API security, monitoring, logging, and lifecycle governance.
  • Mentor and guide developers, providing architectural oversight for API implementations.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in multi-vendor and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and adoption of integration strategies.
  • Eventually take the enterprise ownership of both Mule Soft and APIM platforms as part of broader API governance.

• Mule Soft (Must-Have)
  • 12–15+ years in software engineering, integration, or enterprise systems, with 5–7 years in an architect role.
  • Strong expertise in Mule 4, Anypoint Platform, Cloud Hub (1.0 & 2.0), API Manager, Runtime Manager, Exchange, RAML, Data Weave, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven experience as an API Architect (3+ years) designing and governing large-scale enterprise integrations.
  • Familiarity with Azure Dev Ops and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Prior experience in government or regulated environments is highly desirable.
• Microsoft APIM (Preferred)
  • Hands-on experience with API gateways, policies, subscriptions, developer portal, monitoring, and security.
  • Strong understanding of the Azure ecosystem including Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid, Service Bus, Key Vault, and Application Insights.
• General Skills
  • Deep expertise in API governance, security, and performance optimization.
  • Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenID Connect, SAML, and related API security practices.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions).
  • Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
  • Ability to operate in multi-vendor, hybrid cloud environments.
• Certifications (Preferred but not mandatory)
  • Mule Soft Certified Platform Architect
  • Mule Soft Certified Integration Architect
  • Microsoft Certified:
    Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Mid-Senior level

• Contract

• Information Technology

• Software Development

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