Technical Practice Lead (MuleSoft)
CoastalTechnical Practice Lead (MuleSoft)
As a MuleSoft Technical Practice Lead, you sit at the intersection of technical delivery, practice growth, and market expansion. You split your focus between driving high-impact client engagements, serving as a Lead Architect or advisory lead, and championing internal practice capabilities. These internal capabilities include go-to-market (GTM) strategy, sales engineering, delivery governance, and reusable asset development. You act as a trusted advisor to senior executive stakeholders, lead project teams through complex digital transformations, and serve as the technical authority across pre-sales and solutioning efforts.
Role Responsibilities:
Practice Leadership & Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy
As a MuleSoft Technical Practice Lead, you sit at the intersection of technical delivery, practice growth, and market expansion. You split your focus between driving high-impact client engagements, serving as a Lead Architect or advisory lead, and championing internal practice capabilities. These internal capabilities include go-to-market (GTM) strategy, sales engineering, delivery governance, and reusable asset development. You act as a trusted advisor to senior executive stakeholders, lead project teams through complex digital transformations, and serve as the technical authority across pre-sales and solutioning efforts.
Role Responsibilities:
Practice Leadership & Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy
- Serve as the principal technical expert supporting sales, solution engineering, and GTM teams to scope, estimate, and close complex integration deals.
- Define and maintain technical Points-of-View (POVs), market offerings, and architectural blueprints for enterprise integration and hyperautomation.
- Build, maintain, and showcase reusable demo assets on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, incorporating technologies such as Salesforce Data 360, Informatica, Snowflake, Runtime Fabric (RTF), and API Manager.
- Analyze market dynamics, competitive ecosystems, and emerging integration patterns (e.g., AI integration, event-driven architectures) to inform product strategy and service offerings.
- Author thought leadership content, white papers, and technical blogs to elevate practice visibility in the market.
Client Engagement & Delivery Governance
- Lead end-to-end architectural design, API-led connectivity strategies, and complex integration implementations across client portfolios.
- Drive requirements discovery, API lifecycle management, performance tuning, and security policy configuration across multi-cloud environments.
- Oversee multi-disciplinary delivery teams, establishing technical standards, code quality frameworks, and governance best practices.
- Partner with client C-suite, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business outcomes.
Talent Mentorship & Capability Building
- Mentor, upskill, and scale internal consulting teams on MuleSoft standards, API-led design principles, and modern application networks.
- Build internal accelerators, code frameworks, and reusable API patterns to drive delivery efficiency and consistency.
- Foster a high-performance culture grounded in technical excellence, continuous learning, and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) best practices.
Qualifications & Core Requirements
- Experience: 7+ years of experience in enterprise solution architecture and technical consulting with a primary focus on the MuleSoft platform.
- MuleSoft Expertise: Deep expertise in API led connectivity models, alongside advanced proficiency with Anypoint Platform, DataWeave, Anypoint Studio, API Gateway, MuleSoft IDP, and MuleSoft RPA.
- Consulting Leadership: Proven track record of guiding clients through pre-sales, discovery, design, and full-lifecycle delivery in a consulting environment.
- Deployment & Security: Hands-on experience with API lifecycle management, zero-trust security policies, CloudHub, Runtime Fabric (RTF), and hybrid deployment topologies.
- Data & CRM Ecosystems: Solid understanding of enterprise data architectures, Customer 360 models, data governance, and data modeling across CRM and cloud platforms.
- Communication: Executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate business value to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Authorization: Must have full-time permanent US work authorization.
Preferred Skills & Emerging Technologies
- Experience integrating MuleSoft with Salesforce data solutions (Data Cloud, CRM Analytics, Sales or Service Cloud), as well as core enterprise systems such as NetSuite, SAP, and Oracle.
- Deep domain experience in the banking and financial services industry, including familiarity with core banking and financial platforms, is strongly preferred.
- Exposure to Generative AI and agentic integration architectures, enterprise machine learning platforms, or AI-driven API orchestrations.
- Experience connecting MuleSoft integrations to public cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as enterprise data platforms like Snowflake, Tableau, or Power BI.
- Relevant MuleSoft Certifications (e.g., MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect, Integration Architect).
- Willingness to travel to client sites as required.
Why Coastal, and what we offer:
- Flexible working hours with an emphasis on a life-work balance (in that order!)
- Remote flexible work; plus company office locations in Palm Coast, FL; Atlanta, GA; Tysons, VA & Lexington, KY; travel as required to client locations
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (RTO), 401K with Company Match, and Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage
- Competitive quarterly bonus opportunities
- Continuing education and certification reimbursements, specifically within the Salesforce and Snowflake ecosystems; plus occasional in-house competitions with spot bonuses
- A flexible and fun team culture! We value transparency, support, flexibility, growth, teamwork, fun, and so much more
- Frequent team and culture activities, virtual & in-person, including Lunch and Learns, Happy Hours, team-building events
- Monthly All-Hands calls to bring the company together, and an open-door leadership policy with access to mentorship and guidance
- Opportunities for accelerated growth, networking, and career guidance and support
- Trust, transparency and respect across all levels of the company
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