Senior Mulesoft Consultant

Company Description:
**We Dream. We Do. We Deliver.**

As a **full-service, data-driven customer experience transformation, **we partner with Top 500 companies in the DACH region and in Eastern Europe. Originally from Switzerland, Merkle DACH was created out of a merger Namics and Isobar - two leading full-service digital agencies.

**Our 1200+ digital enthusiasts **are innovating the way brands are built, through providing expertise in Digital Transformation strategy, MarTech platforms, Creativity, UX, CRM, Data, Commerce, Mobile, Social Media, Intranet and CMS. We are part of the global **Merkle** brand, the largest brand within the dentsu group, who shares with us a network of over 66,000 passionate individuals in 146 countries.

**Job Description**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- You will be responsible for gathering business requirements through client-facing engagement
- You will be working in multi-disciplinary teams with members from different regions, typically within Europe
- You will lead middleware development and/or architecture design together with solution and enterprise architects, scope definition for APIs to be implemented by junior teammates, research of accelerators and proofs-of-concept
- You will have to support and coach junior teammates

**Other responsibilities**:

- Works in a fast-paced, iterative manner with peers from across disciplines;
- Understands design methods, design thinking, sprint-based strategy, design, planning and prototyping best practices;
- Researches trends and innovations to substantiate hypotheses;
- Stays up to date, or ahead, of digital trends in the market and understands how they impact the client's business;
- Strong background in MS Office.

Qualifications:
**Key skills**:

- Strong knowledge in MuleSoft development, configuration and deployment;
- Strong command in REST and SOAP API design, EAI and SOA principles;
- Experienced in most Anypoint Platform modules;
- Good knowledge in SQL or NoSQL;
- Knowledge in any object-oriented programming language;
- Worked with any MQ tool;
- Understand the fundamental Agile concepts, have experience with Scrum or similar development methodology and used to use Jira to track progress;
- Understand the fundamental CI/CD concepts and have worked with Git and Jenkins or similar tools;
- Good knowledge in other EAI, APIM or ETL tool;
- Proficient in English.

**Prerequisites**:

- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent;
- Minimum 3 years experience in systems integration;
- Valid MCD (Mule 3 or 4);
- Valid MCPA or MCIA;
- Any Anypoint advanced course (highly valued);
- Scrum Master certification (valued);
- Any Salesforce certification (valued).

**We do not sponsor work visa.**

For those who don’t have **Portuguese documents** (NIF and NISS), we suggest you to search for more information at local country Social Security entities, as well as on SEF (Serviços Estrangeiros e Fronteiras), for possible roles in Merkle Portugal.

Additional Information:
**Benefits and perks**:

- Cutting Edge Technology & Latest IT tools
- Software-house environment
- Agile and Flexible working hours
- Hybrid work system (remote friendly)
- Digital nomad policy
- Focus on career development
- Health insurance (also included for the household)
- Mental health support
- Volunteering experiences and sustainable mindset
- 25 vacation days + 3 wellness days per year
- Beers (after 6pm), foosball, and ping-pong #workhardplayhard
- Free breakfast every second Monday of the month
- Employee discounts
- Team & Company events

**Inclusion & Diversity**
- We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working hard to build a more inclusive workplace through partnerships with Stonewall, Business Disability Forum and Business in the Community’s race and gender equality campaigns. We are happy to discuss all flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly._
- If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you._

More Information:
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