Senior Lead Software Engineer

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Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up – committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.

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This role is a senior technical leader responsible for Salesforce solutions and Mule Soft-driven enterprise integrations, enabling scalable, automated, and API first system interactions. Driven enterprise integrations and first system interactions.

We are looking for a Sr Lead Software Engineer to provide Sales Force engineering direction in the creation, delivery, and integration of multiple and moderately complex software solutions. May translate business requirements into specific designs and/or participate in the design, evaluation, and selection of engineering solutions for software for a specific business process. Establish the current and future use of the practice, metrics, and methodologies to determine current and future solutions.

Explore and evaluate new and approved technologies. Consult on the application of existing and new, approved technologies to develop solutions. Ensure the process of creation and delivery of design and solution in accordance with the architectural direction. This role is critical in shaping our software architecture.

Provide technical leadership for enterprise integrations using Mule Soft, defining API led connectivity patterns that enable scalable, secure, and reusable integrations across Salesforce, internal platforms, and external partner systems. Serve as the engineering authority for Salesforce and Mule Soft based cross system automation and integration patterns, including API design, orchestration, and event driven integration strategies.

Desired experience includes iterative delivery, scaling, telecommunications level networking, managing multiple efforts, and a record of delivery under pressure. The role requires an ability to adapt to evolving technologies, changing project priorities, and guiding the team through the journey in close partnership with our business stakeholders and broader engineering teams.

This is a work from home position within the US.

Lead the design and implementation of Mule Soft-based integrations using API-led connectivity principles

Define and govern enterprise API standards, including RAML/Open API specifications, versioning, and lifecycle management

Design and optimize system-to-system integrations across Salesforce, cloud platforms, and on-prem systems using Mule Soft

Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and security of integrations, including error handling, retries, and monitoring

Partner with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align Mule Soft integrations with enterprise architecture standards

Design, development of interactions between distributed systems, and services

Define and document using engineering-level design patterns, including data exchange formats, API contracts, and automation triggers

Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and broader software teams to ensure alignment and clarity in system integration

Establish and enforce engineering standards for development, design, documentation, and validation

Serve as the engineering authority for cross-system automation and integration patterns involving Sales Force

• 8+ years of experience engineering SaaS / cloud-native / cloud-ready concepts, systems integration, APIs, network technology and operations, or automation architecture
• 4+ years of experience with Mule Soft Anypoint Platform, including API Manager, Runtime Manager, and Cloud Hub
• 3-5 years of experience with Architecture, Design & Development of web-based applications.
• 3-5 years of experience with Agile Development Methodology.
• 3-5 years of experience working with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience designing API-led connectivity (System,…