MuleSoft Integrations Lead

Job Description

The Integration Team Lead is responsible for team activities concerning the design, development, and maintenance of the company's integration architecture. While strong proficiency in MuleSoft based integration architecture is highly valued, this role encompasses a broader, modern integration technology landscape, including MuleSoft, Confluent Kafka, Kong API Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Metering and Billing, n8n, MS Power Platform, and Azure Logic Apps. This role acts as a subject matter expert on API-led and event-driven integration patterns, ensuring that all corporate systems integrations are scalable, reliable, and secure. The manager-as-engineer works closely with various cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications and leads the development team to deliver high-quality integration solutions.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY:

Integration Architecture & Delivery:

Design, build, and maintain the company's central integration instances and solutions, leveraging MuleSoft, Confluent Kafka, Kong API Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Metering and Billing, n8n, MS Power Platform, and Azure Logic Apps to ensure a high-performing digital ecosystem.

Team Leadership & Mentoring:

Manage, mentor, and guide a team of integration engineers (including direct reports), fostering a collaborative, agile, and high-performance engineering culture.

Collaboration & Requirements Engineering:

Partner with product managers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand business workflows, translate them into comprehensive integration designs, and manage delivery timelines.

Best Practices & Standards:

Enforce strict coding standards, robust code review processes, API governance, and comprehensive automated testing guidelines within the team.

DevOps & Platform Operations:

Oversee automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD), environment management, and proactive monitoring/alerting across all core integration platforms.

Incident & Problem Management:

Guide the team in resolving critical integration-related incidents, performing root-cause analysis (RCA), and implementing permanent preventative fixes.

DECISION-MAKING POWER

• Owns technical and operational decisions related to the company's core integration, event streaming, and API platforms (including MuleSoft, Confluent Kafka, Kong API/AI Gateways, and automation tools).

• Defines task delegation, prioritization, and sprint planning within the Integration Team.

• Recommends integration architectural standards and platform governance policies to the Integration Competency Center Manager.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR:

• Brings several years of hands-on experience in software development, systems engineering, and IT operations in general.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software development or integration engineering, with at least 1-2 years in a team lead or coordinator role.

• In-depth, hands-on experience with APIs (designing, developing, deploying, and managing APIs across their entire lifecycle).

• In-depth knowledge and practical experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and modern event-driven streams.

• Strong practical knowledge and experience with enterprise integration tools:

• Enterprise iPaaS: Strong hands-on experience with MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform, CloudHub, API Manager).

• Event Streaming: Experience with Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform (producers, consumers, streaming concepts, topic management).

• API Gateways: Experience with Kong API Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, and Kong Metering and Billing.

• Automation & Lightweight iPaaS: Practical knowledge of n8n, MS Power Platform, and Azure Logic Apps.

• DevOps & Agile Methods:

• Confident experience with modern DevOps methods and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions).

• Solid understanding and practical experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or scaled agile frameworks like SAFe).

• Familiarity with Waterfall project methodologies where hybrid planning is required.

• Proactivity and Autonomy: Ability to work independently and responsibly, proactively proposing optimizations for existing processes and systems.

• Team Spirit & Leadership: Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with proven experience in team management, fostering team cohesion, and resolving conflict.

• Language skills: Fluent in written and spoken English.

• Curiosity & Growth Mindset: Openness to learning and adopting emerging technologies.

Qualifications

ELIGIBLITY

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related engineering field.

• Proven experience in enterprise-grade integrations, platform operations, and technical team leadership.

Additional Information

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