Mulesoft Integration Architect

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

**Job Summary**:
We are seeking MuleSoft architects who can work with Client to groom and finalize the user stories. Architects will ensure that the implementation happens per the requirements finalized during due diligence and highlight in case of any scope change.

In your first few weeks in this Architect role, you can expect to:

- Collaborate with Customer SMEs to define To Be Business Processes
- Prepare Functional Specifications
- Act as the point of contact for Client for functional aspects act as a bridge between offshore team and Client
- Work with Client to groom and finalize the user stories
- Work with Enterprise architect to define arch guidelines, Patterns & Standards for Integration platform.
- Support Enterprise architect to design & Develop the Common Service frameworks
- Perform Design, Code, Unit Test Review
- Performing API code peer reviews within API development team and seek feedback & guidance from Core Team
- Aligning with Core Team to understand the API Specifications and constraints.
- Provide expertise in developed tools and processes
- Own the API Lifecycle and enforces the SDLC and lead CI/CD pipeline
- Conduct product demo sessions for Client SMEs
- Collaborate with Customer SMEs to define To Be Business Processes
- act as a bridge between offshore team and Client
- Manage robust teams delivery team members, including BAs, Tech Leads, Cross technology Architects Developers & QA
- Liaise and manage collaboration between horizontals to bring in synergies and ensure successful delivery
- Take accountability of delivery of work packages to customer facing project teams, ensuring packages are delivered on time and with quality
- Ensure for all projects, each Apex method developed has an equivalent test method with at least one valid unit test (using an assertion)
- Ensure total test coverage within QA and higher environments is at least 85%
- Ensure all code is peer-reviewed against Cognizant development standards prior to deployment to QA
- Maintain and publish development standards to broader technical teams on a quarterly basis
- Ensure developers are incorporating code review feedback prior to deployment to QA.
- Enforce the practice with regular training & project audits.
- Ensure version control has been correctly setup at the beginning of the project
- Ensure all developers are using version control as the source of truth for development
- Be an active part of the COE, owing technical & solution reviews for all projects on a regular basis
- Extensive years of experience in handling large delivery engagements with a strong experience in managing integration programs
- Has delivered multiple full end-to-end implementations/projects, especially including highly integrated/complex ecosystems.
- Strong program management and problem-solving skills
- Should have excellent presentation and written communications skills
- Strong Exposure to SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Exceptionally strong in scope management
- Has ownership for key projects’ timelines, deliverables, budget and metrics
- Proven ability to efficiently manage a portfolio and drive operational improvements
- Should be flexible in time and attitude
- Works independently to manage the whole program and respective stakeholders/ and projects
- Hands on experience with setting up branching strategy, version control & CICD