MuleSoft Architect

Green Irony•Raleigh, NC

2d•Remote

About The Position

At Green Irony, we exist to turn AI into Actual Intelligence—accelerating outcomes and proving that complexity is optional. We hire people who automate first, ask permission never, and treat ownership as a default setting. If you’d rather govern yourself than be governed by layers of project managers, welcome home. As a MuleSoft Architect, you won't be handed a ticket queue or a seat at someone else's table. You own the integration platform for our clients, end to end — standing up the API-led foundation, shaping the solution from discovery through delivery, and building the AI systems that let a small team ship like a large one. You set the architectural direction, and you build the engine the rest of us deliver inside. This is a seat for someone at the top of the craft: deep enough in MuleSoft to make the hard architectural calls, fluent enough in AI to build with it rather than around it, and credible enough in front of clients to turn a single engagement into a lasting partnership. If that's you, keep reading. Remote (US). Raleigh–Durham a plus, not required. The ideal candidate will be based in Eastern or Central timezones. Must be US-based and authorized to work in the US; no sponsorship.

Requirements

Architect-level MuleSoft expertise: Expert API-led design on Mule 4 / Anypoint — clean system/process/experience boundaries, DataWeave, CloudHub 2.0 / Runtime Fabric, Exchange-driven reuse and governance.
Experience owning target-state architecture and its trade-offs.
Experience building with AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and LLM-based assistants, demonstrating where AI made delivery faster and where it falls down.
Client-facing consulting experience: owning client engagements at a consultancy or SI, running discovery, aligning stakeholders from exec to dev, and contributing to LOE/SOW.
Delivery and DevOps fundamentals: experience with branch strategy, peer review, automated deploys across environments on CloudHub 2.0 or Runtime Fabric, monitoring that surfaces issues before the client does, and security built in from the first commit (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, contract-first APIs, no secrets in source).
Direct, proactive communication skills: ability to state things concisely and surface risk early.
MuleSoft architecture certification (Platform Architect or Integration Architect) or equivalent demonstrable architecture depth.

Nice To Haves

Leading presales end to end — discovery through signed SOW
Documented AI-acceleration work with real before/after delivery gains
Cloud and networking depth on AWS/Azure that can be defended on cost and performance
Experience with event-driven patterns (Anypoint MQ, Kafka)
Based in the Raleigh / Triangle area

Responsibilities

Design the target-state, API-led platform — system, process, and experience layers — set the standards and reusable templates teams actually use, and own the technical direction for your engagements.
Build and direct agentic systems that generate the bulk of our delivery, then bring the team along to work inside them.
Keep internal agents, skills, and delivery process ahead of the field by folding in new techniques as models and tooling evolve, contributing agents and process improvements back to the team.
Act as the technical voice in client conversations from the first meeting — assisting with discovery, shaping the solution architecture, and reviewing, pressure-testing, and signing off on SOWs.
Own scope, guard against creep, and drive milestones to the outcome. Surface risk early and turn one engagement into a long-term partnership.
Define CI/CD strategy, secure-by-default integration, and document decisions so they're repeatable.