Purpose of the role
Capita’s MuleSoft Centre for Enablement & Excellence (C4EE) is expanding its architectural capability to support large‑scale integration and API transformation programmes for major UK Government and private‑sector clients. As a MuleSoft Architect, you will translate business needs into scalable API‑led architectures, ensuring technical excellence, security, and alignment to Capita’s enterprise design principles.
Role Summary
The MuleSoft Architect defines integration architecture, governs solution design, and supports delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle. You will produce designs, patterns, and documentation to ensure all APIs and integrations follow best practice, while working closely with engineers, product teams, and client architecture functions.
Job title
MuleSoft Architect
Job Description
CANDIDATES MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR SC CLEARANCE
What you’ll be doing
- Lead the architecture and design of API‑led solutions across System, Process, and Experience layers.
- Produce HLDs, LLDs, sequence diagrams, API specifications, and integration design artefacts.
- Define reusable API patterns, standards, and frameworks aligned to C4EE governance.
- Conduct architectural reviews and ensure traceability from business requirements to technical implementation.
- Support complex design topics: data modelling, security policies, caching, resilience, event‑driven architecture, and RTF networking.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure policy enforcement, encryption, identity, and SC‑compliant design.
- Oversee NFRs including performance, scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, and observability.
- Guide developers and DevOps engineers through build, test, deployment, and operational handover.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise platforms including Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, AWS/Azure, and data platforms.
- Support effort estimation, planning, stakeholder engagement, and technical risk management.
- Contribute to the evolution of C4EE playbooks, templates, governance artefacts, and reusable assets.
Key Deliverables
- High‑level and low‑level design documents
- API specifications and sequence diagrams
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Reusable patterns, templates, and standards
- Architecture review outputs and recommendations
What we’re looking for
Essential
- Minimum 4 years Mulesoft experience
- MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect (MCA) (preferred)
- MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect (MCPA) (preferred)
- Strong experience with Anypoint Platform, Runtime Fabric and/or CloudHub v2.0, and hybrid integration
- Strong understanding of API governance, IAM, OAuth, TLS, token management, and policy enforcement
- Architecture experience spanning Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, AWS/Azure, and data platforms
- Experience delivering in highly governed environments (e.g., Government, Financial Services, Defence)
Soft Skills
- Architectural Leadership: sets direction, governs design, and influences delivery
- Systems Thinking: balances functional needs with NFRs, security, and operability
- Communication: explains complex designs clearly to varied audiences
- Quality & Security Focus: builds secure‑by‑design, resilient architectures
- Collaboration: works effectively with client and internal architecture communities
- Leads and mentors project stakeholders in terms of technology.
- Proven Solution Architecture experience.
- Must have strong commercial awareness, and an understanding of how businesses work financially.
- Possesses a broad knowledge of solution areas such as transformation and migration, security, business analysis, applications, integration and infrastructure, service management, including trends in the current marketplace and understands how these interact to arrive at a solution.
- Expert in using architectural principles and frameworks.
- Experience of designing & implementing solutions as part of multi‑stream change programmes.
- Working in large change programmes in a leadership role involving key integration of some of the leading technology supplier and their products.
Benefits
- A competitive basic salary
- 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
- Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
Location
London, United Kingdom
Time Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Equal Opportunity
We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier‑free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email reasonableadjustments@capita.com and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.
