Senior MuleSoft Developer

About the role

Location: Chicago, IL / Dallas, TX. Duration: 6 Months. Overall experience: 6-10+ years. Required MuleSoft experience: 4+ years. Role skill: Digital - MuleSoft.

Role Summary: Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise integration solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. Strong expertise in API-led connectivity, application integration, cloud technologies, microservices architecture. Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and development teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance integration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop integration solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
• Implement API-led connectivity using Experience APIs, Process APIs, System APIs.
• Develop and maintain Mule applications using Mule 4, DataWeave 2.0, Anypoint Studio, API Manager, Runtime Manager, Anypoint Exchange, CloudHub.
• Integrate enterprise applications such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Azure, AWS, ServiceNow, and third‑party systems.
• Create reusable APIs, integration frameworks, and shared services.
• Design APIs using REST, SOAP, RAML, OpenAPI.
• Troubleshoot performance, security, and production issues.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab.
• Ensure API governance, security, logging, monitoring, and compliance.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical mentoring.
• Collaborate with business analysts and solution architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Prepare technical documentation and deployment guides.
• Support production transition activities.

Required MuleSoft Skills

• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
• Mule 4
• DataWeave 2.0
• API-led connectivity
• API Manager
• Runtime Manager
• CloudHub
• Anypoint Exchange
• REST / SOAP Web Services
• JSON, XML, XSD
• JMS, Kafka, MQ
• OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML
• API Security and Governance
• Java fundamentals, Spring Boot fundamentals
• Git, Maven
• Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab
• CI/CD pipeline implementation
• Automated testing with MUnit
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Docker, Kubernetes (preferred)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6‑10+ years of IT experience.
• 4+ years of hands‑on MuleSoft development experience.
• Strong enterprise integration experience.
• MuleSoft Certifications: MuleSoft Certified Developer – Level 1 (MCD) preferred; MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect preferred; MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Telecom.
• Enterprise integration strategy.
• Event‑Driven Architecture.
• Microservices.
• Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Technical leadership and mentoring.
• Solution design and architecture.
• Performance tuning.
• Production support.
• API modernization.
• Cloud migration.

Senior-Level Expectations

• Lead end‑to‑end MuleSoft implementation projects.
• Define integration patterns and best practices.
• Mentor junior developers.
• Conduct code reviews.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects on integration roadmaps.
• Drive API modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, security, and maintainability of integration solutions.