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 MuleSoft 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 MuleSoft 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 MuleSoft, driving improvements in design, performance, security, and compliance.
- Lead a MuleSoft platform assessment to enhance scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Provide leadership in the MuleSoft Cloud Hub 1.0 to 2.0 migration, ensuring adoption of new features and best practices.
- Support hybrid coexistence and migration planning between MuleSoft 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 MuleSoft and APIM platforms as part of broader API governance.
Key Skills & Experience
- MuleSoft (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, CloudHub (1.0 & 2.0), API Manager, Runtime Manager, Exchange, RAML, DataWeave, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven experience as an API Architect (3+ years) designing and governing large-scale enterprise integrations.
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps 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 DevOps, GitHub Actions).
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Ability to operate in multi-vendor, hybrid cloud environments.
- Certifications (Preferred but not mandatory)
- MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect
- MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Contract
Job function
- Information Technology
Industries
- Software Development
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