Technical Practice Lead (MuleSoft)

**Technical 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** * 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 *Coastal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.* *This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.*