Mulesoft Integration Senior Architect (secret Clearance)

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Washington DC Metro, VA · Remote

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Architect for their MuleSoft Professional Services team. The role involves leading and governing the design of complex integration projects, defining enterprise integration best practices, and establishing DevOps models. The architect will act as a technical advisor to clients and internal teams, mentor junior architects, and influence product direction. Requires an active Secret clearance and extensive IT and MuleSoft experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and govern the design of complex, multi-phased MuleSoft integration projects, ensuring adherence to API-led connectivity and integration patterns.
  2. Identify opportunities and efficiencies in customers IT operating model, and support implementation of the SLDC pipeline to get greater value out of the MuleSoft platform.
  3. Define and scale enterprise integration best practices, reference architectures, foundational assets, and API patterns to drive platform adoption and reuse.
  4. Establish and enforce DevOps models, CI/CD pipelines, and operational standards, including monitoring, alerting, and full API lifecycle management.

Skills

Required

  • Active Secret level security clearance
  • 10+ years of IT experience
  • 5+ years leading complex integration and solution architecture initiatives
  • 2+ years of hands-on MuleSoft experience or similar
  • Designing and implementing API-led connectivity and integration patterns
  • High Availability (HA)
  • Scalability
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Full API lifecycle management
  • Architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions
  • Evangelizing integration methodologies
  • Supporting business case justification to C-level executives
  • API security principles
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Application of security policies

Nice to have

  • Integration and Architecture: Expertise in defining full API lifecycle management, SDLC, Microservices, and related architecture patterns (Service Mesh, Serverless).
  • MuleSoft Platform Mastery: Deep experience designing API-led connectivity and architecture (System, Process, Experience APIs) and mastery of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform features (e.g., API Management, Exchange, Flex Gateway).
  • Technical Workshops: Experience driving technical workshops with technical and business clients to derive value added services and implementations.
  • Security and Compliance: Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, FISMA, HIPAA, SOX), experience configuring enterprise software for security compliance, and desired certifications.

What the JD emphasized

  • Active Secret level security clearance
  • 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years leading complex integration and solution architecture initiatives.
  • 2+ years of hands-on MuleSoft experience or similar experience, including proficiency in designing and implementing API-led connectivity and integration patterns.
  • Demonstrated expertise in High Availability (HA), Scalability, the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and full API lifecycle management.
  • Demonstrated expertise in architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions meeting complex business requirements while evangelizing integration methodologies and supporting business case justification to C-level executives.
  • Experience defining full API life-cycle management, from API design and integration development through to deployment, operations and governance.
  • Demonstrated experience managing and architecting for multiple technical integration projects using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) end-to-end, sometimes simultaneously
  • Demonstrated experience architecting services integrations with MuleSoft and the other solutions (e.g., IBM, BEA, Oracle Fusion, TIBCO, Dell Boomi, Progress Sonic, API Management solutions, etc.).
  • Demonstrated understanding of API security principles, including authentication, authorization, and the application of security policies.