MuleSoft Lead Developer
Cognizant · Chicago, IL
$83,600–$140,500from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior integration engineering role focused on designing and building enterprise-grade APIs and integration solutions on MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform, including CloudHub and hybrid deployments. The position involves technical leadership — guiding and reviewing the work of other developers — alongside hands-on development using Mule 4.x, DataWeave, and API security standards. It suits an experienced MuleSoft developer comfortable operating across both architecture and delivery.
Senior level · 8+ years · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 75 people in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–110
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,335 (middle half $106,829–$171,337). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'MuleSoft Lead Developer' carries no standard seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the 8+ years overall and 5+ years MuleSoft requirements, combined with explicit technical leadership and mentorship duties, firmly support a Senior classification.
The alternative occupation code 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted because MuleSoft integration specialists are a niche that sits between general software development and systems/middleware integration; 15-1252 is the better fit given the hands-on coding and API-building emphasis.
Azure DevOps, Maven, and Jenkins appear in the responsibilities section under 'Support CI/CD initiatives… or similar technologies' — listed as examples rather than hard gates, so they are marked preferred. Git is listed in the same sentence but is a near-universal hard requirement for CI/CD work and is treated as required.
AWS and Azure appear under 'cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure' — the 'such as' qualifier means the cloud platform requirement is a hard gate but the specific tools are interchangeable; AWS is emitted as the primary with Azure as an alternative.
The MuleSoft Certified Developer (MCD) certification, messaging technologies (Kafka/JMS/MQ), enterprise application integrations (Salesforce/SAP/Workday/Oracle), Agile/Scrum, and monitoring tools (Splunk/AppDynamics/Grafana/ELK) all appear under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are marked accordingly.
The posting explicitly states no visa transfer or sponsorship is available.
This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week on-site in Chicago, IL — not fully remote.
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