Senior Lead Software Engineer

Lumen Technologies is a company focused on connecting people, data, and applications to drive business growth. The Senior Lead Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for Salesforce solutions and MuleSoft-driven enterprise integrations, ensuring scalable and automated system interactions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of MuleSoft-based integrations using API-led connectivity principles
• Define and govern enterprise API standards, including RAML/Open API specifications, versioning, and lifecycle management
• Design and optimize system-to-system integrations across Salesforce, cloud platforms, and on-prem systems using MuleSoft
• Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and security of integrations, including error handling, retries, and monitoring
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align MuleSoft integrations with enterprise architecture standards
• Design, development of interactions between distributed systems, and services
• Define and document using engineering-level design patterns, including data exchange formats, API contracts, and automation triggers
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and broader software teams to ensure alignment and clarity in system integration
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for development, design, documentation, and validation
• Serve as the engineering authority for cross-system automation and integration patterns involving SalesForce

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience engineering SaaS / cloud-native / cloud-ready concepts, systems integration, APIs, network technology and operations, or automation architecture
• 4+ years of experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, including API Manager, Runtime Manager, and CloudHub
• 3-5 years of experience with Architecture, Design & Development of web-based applications
• 3-5 years of experience with Agile Development Methodology
• 3-5 years of experience working with both relational and non-relational databases
• Experience designing API-led connectivity (System, Process, and Experience APIs)
• Familiarity with tools like common IDEs, automated test suites, CI/CD Pipelines, IaC, Swagger/OpenAPI, BPMN, or UML for documenting system interactions
• Experience with service orchestration platforms or workflow engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda, Step Functions)
• Strong software development skills surrounding SalesForce
• Experience with FEDramp within SFDC