MuleSoft API Principal Engineer

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* Job Title:

** Mule Soft API Principal Engineer I
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* Location:

** Block 23
** What you'll do:
** As a Principal Engineer I you'll provide your expert-level knowledge as the established authority in your domain as well as extensive knowledge across multiple domains to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant, and reliable. You'll lead large and complex design efforts supporting critical projects and solutions while engaging with project and business sponsors defining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions.

As a Principal Engineer II, you'll also engage in the facilitation of dialogue and large team activities, while ensuring collaboration to include teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for business stakeholders and IT audiences.
* Build the solution design of efforts that can be handed off to lower-level engineers for execution assuring reuse of platforms where possible.
* Review technical plans developed by lower-level engineers and analysts to assure quality designs which can support the volumetrics of our business partners objectives.
* Build comprehensive measurement dashboards that give performance insight into key applications of the bank which can feed operational results of our business partners while enforcing IT standards, and may modify or build procedures that support areas of operations across IT.
* Work independently or partner with architecture team counterparts to lay out the final documentation required for proper, ongoing reference of the given solution to include physical and logical layouts with cross reference to use case models.
* Architect, design, and implement Mule Soft APIs for high-performance, scalable, and secure payment processing.
* Lead the adoption of AI-assisted API design and development using GenAI tools (e.g., Mule Soft AI, Git Hub Copilot, internal LLMs) to accelerate API creation, reduce development cycle time, and improve code consistency across the Payments API landscape.
* Optimize vCore utilization for cost efficiency, resource allocation, and high availability.
* Develop resilient and fault-tolerant API architectures, ensuring zero-downtime deployments and disaster recovery strategies.
* Lead full API lifecycle management, from development and security hardening to deployment and maintenance.
* Implement API security best practices, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, certificate-based authentication, and encryption standards for financial transactions.
* Ensure adherence to FDX (Financial Data Exchange) standards for secure financial data interoperability.
* Build event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka for high-throughput and low-latency transaction processing.
* Implement No

SQL database integration (MongoDB, Azure CosmosDB) for flexible and scalable data storage solutions.
* Develop observability frameworks with ELK to monitor API performance, security, and anomalies.
* Optimize Mule Soft worker configurations, clustering, and autoscaling strategies for Cloud Hub deployments. Need to come up with strategy for future hybrid deployments – Cloud hub and On-prem
* Implement Mule Soft High Availability (HA) clustering and load balancing to ensure resilience and failover capabilities.
* Enforce security policies and compliance controls specific to Mule Soft API gateways.
* Design and develop APIs using Azure API Management (APIM) to enforce consistent security, rate limiting, versioning, and lifecycle governance while enabling scalable, reusable, and well‐managed API consumption across platforms.
** What you'll need:
*** 8+ years of related experience.
* Bachelor's degree in related field required;
Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
* Previous leadership experience preferred.
* Advanced to expert…