Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Data Integration)

We're looking for a Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Application Integration) to join our team in Lausanne, Switzerland in a hybrid working mode.Application integration for our client is at a turning point. MuleSoft has been the foundation for years, and now we’re shaping the next-generation landscape-continuing to use MuleSoft where it adds value and adopting AWS-native services where they are more scalable and cost-efficient.
You’ll join an international delivery team, working closely with the client’s solution architects, integration stakeholders and our lead in a collaborative, early-decision environment where your voice matters. As a Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Application Integration), you will sit at the intersection of engineering, architecture and business: assessing the current MuleSoft landscape, defining the target approach with architects, validating it through fast prototypes and helping scale proven patterns across the wider integration portfolio as a trusted technical partner.

We offer/Benefits

• 5 weeks of vacation
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Enhanced parental leave
• Extended pension plan
• Daily sickness allowance insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Global business travel medical and accident insurance
• Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses

*All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements

• Please note that any offers will be subject to appropriate background checks
• We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies
• For this position, we are able to consider applications from the following:
• Swiss nationals
• EU/EFTA nationals
• Third-country nationals based in Switzerland with an appropriate work permit
• Displaced people from Ukraine who are currently in Switzerland and hold, or have already applied for, S permits

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagement on high-priority integration challenges
• Scope AI-assisted integration prototypes
• Build and iterate on data integration, ingestion and transformation prototypes using MuleSoft process APIs, Fivetran and dbt
• Define and validate technical feasibility and architecture for innovative integration approaches
• Lead hardening and transition of validated prototypes into standard build workflows
• Act as a subject matter expert and senior escalation point for data integration technologies
• Serve as the primary technical liaison for client integration and AI-related initiatives
• Contribute reusable integration patterns and components to the AI Solution Engineering practice

Requirements

• Overall experience of six or more years, including three or more in integration engineering
• Experience of two or more years in forward-deployed or solution engineering roles
• Strong proficiency in API integration development
• Hands-on experience with Fivetran and dbt
• Experience with Mulesoft APIs
• Practical exposure to AI-assisted development or agent-based tooling
• Demonstrated client-facing technical leadership capability
• Familiarity with Anthropic Claude or Amazon Bedrock
• English proficiency at CEFR B2 level