Lead Architect - Integration

You are seeking a seasoned MuleSoft CloudHub 2.0 Integration Architect with strong experience in designing and implementing enterprise-grade integration solutions involving SAP, Salesforce, GCP, and asynchronous batch processing systems. This role requires a blend of technical depth, architectural vision, leadership, and governance mindset, ensuring seamless data flow and integration consistency across the enterprise ecosystem. **Key Responsibilities:** 1. **Architecture & Design** - Define and own the integration architecture roadmap leveraging MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (CloudHub 2.0). - Design end-to-end integration solutions across SAP, Salesforce, and GCP using API-led connectivity principles. - Architect asynchronous APIs, event-driven integrations, and batch processing frameworks for high-volume enterprise workloads. - Ensure security, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance are embedded in all integration designs. - Develop integration blueprints, patterns, and reference architectures in alignment with enterprise standards. 2. **Leadership, Governance & Collaboration** - Work closely with enterprise leadership and the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to define, implement, and enforce integration best practices, design standards, and governance frameworks. - Collaborate with business and IT leadership to ensure integration strategies align with organizational goals and enterprise architecture principles. - Represent the integration domain in architecture review boards (ARB) and strategic planning sessions. - Partner with SAP, Salesforce, and GCP platform owners to ensure seamless interoperability and shared architectural vision. 3. **Technical Leadership** - Serve as the MuleSoft thought leader and guide for developers and solution architects. - Conduct design and code reviews, enforcing reusability, modularization, and compliance with architecture standards. - Guide teams in CloudHub 2.0 setup, VPC configuration, CI/CD pipelines, and shared resource utilization. - Evaluate and introduce new integration accelerators, connectors, and frameworks to enhance delivery efficiency. 4. **Mentorship & Delivery Excellence** - Mentor and coach integration developers, leads, and junior architects to improve capability maturity. - Drive continuous improvement through reusable assets, design templates, and knowledge-sharing sessions. - Collaborate with partner/vendor teams to ensure quality, timeliness, and adherence to enterprise integration standards. 5. **Governance & Quality Assurance** - Define and enforce API governance models, naming conventions, and versioning standards. - Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory (GxP, GDPR) requirements in all integrations. - Drive performance tuning, monitoring, and root-cause analysis for critical integration issues. 6. **Infra, Cost, and Budget Planning** - Collaborate with infrastructure and finance teams to manage capacity planning, worker sizing, and runtime optimization for CloudHub environments. - Prepare and manage budget estimations, cost forecasts, and license utilization reports. - Identify cost-saving opportunities through reuse, automation, and environment optimization. 7. **Continuous Improvement & Innovation** - Drive DevOps and CI/CD automation for faster, reliable deployments. - Promote use of API Catalogs, integration accelerators, and reusable design fragments. - Stay updated on MuleSoft product evolution, multi-cloud patterns, and emerging integration technologies. **Qualifications:** - 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in MuleSoft Integration Architecture. - Deep expertise in Mule 4.x, Anypoint Platform, CloudHub 2.0, Runtime Fabric (RTF), and API Manager. - Proven integration experience with SAP (IDoc/BAPI/RFC/OData), Salesforce APIs, and GCP Services (Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Storage). - Strong proficiency in API-led connectivity (System, Process, Experience APIs). - Hands-on experience with asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and batch integrations. - Deep understanding of security standards (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, IP whitelisting, VPC connectivity). - Experience with CI/CD, Anypoint Exchange, DataWeave, and observability tools (Anypoint Monitoring, Splunk, Dynatrace). - Experience in pharma or regulated industry environments (GxP validation) preferred. - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. **Education & Certifications:** - Bachelors / Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect Level 1 (Mandatory) - MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect (Preferred) - Cloud certification (AWS / GCP / Azure) is a plus. You are seeking a seasoned MuleSoft CloudHub 2.0 Integration Architect with strong experience in designing and implementing enterprise-grade integration solutions involving SAP, Salesforce, GCP, and asynchronous batch processin