REMOTE - MuleSoft Lead Architect

Job Description

We are looking for a MuleSoft Lead Architect to work for a leader in the consulting industry.

In this role you will be responsible for the following:

• Governance & control: run cadences (standups/checkpoints/SteerCo), maintain RAID (Risks/Assumptions/Issues/Dependencies) + decision/action logs, enforce entry/exit criteria

• Program planning & integration: build integrated plans, manage dependencies, critical path, resourcing, milestones

• Communication: crisp exec updates, status, meeting facilitation, documentation quality

• Basic domain fluency: enough understanding of the domain (e.g., DevOps/SRE, app support, SDLC) to ask good questions and spot gaps without being the technical owner

• Tools & data literacy: comfort with planning tools (e.g., Jira/ADO/MS Project), dashboards/metrics, and disciplined artifact management

• Vendor management: contract adherence, NDA, third-party coordination

Governance, Security & Compliance

• Define and enforce platform governance standards, including API design guidelines, deployment patterns, and operational best practices.

• Implement and maintain security controls such as RBAC, secrets management, network policies, and encryption standards.

• Conduct regular audits of clusters, environments, and access controls to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.

• Partner with InfoSec to evaluate vulnerabilities, apply patches, and maintain a hardened platform posture.

DevOps, Automation & Tooling

• Modernize CI/CD pipelines and toolchains to improve delivery speed, standardization, and quality across integration teams.

• Build and maintain self-service tools that empower developers to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their applications independently.

• Drive automation across provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident response.

• Integrate MuleSoft with enterprise observability platforms (e.g., logging, metrics, distributed tracing).

Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence

• Monitor platform usage, resource consumption, and cluster efficiency to identify cost-saving opportunities.

• Optimize worker sizing, autoscaling policies, and environment utilization.

• Provide forecasting and budgeting insights for platform growth and capacity planning.

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Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a MuleSoft Developer / Architect

• Engaging with the teams coming in with the requests. Assistance to build out applications

• Engaging with external teams and understanding demands, solution architect type work, decompose that into the work that needs to be done

• Stories are organized on scrum board- working with scrum master to deliver

• Other 50% get their hands dirty and jump into production and point developers into right direction

• Build up proof of concept and build out for client

• Experience building MuleSoft applications

• Experience defining the solution and decompose the work - MuleSoft certified platform architect

• AWS certified solutions architect

• JavaScript / Spring boot (not as much)