Abhaya Singh

Director, Integration Engineering at Parexel

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

About

I am an Enterprise Integration Architect with over 20 years of IT experience and 15+ years of hands-on MuleSoft expertise — building integration platforms that don't just connect systems, but drive measurable business outcomes. Throughout my career, I have taken full ownership of integration strategy at every organization I have joined — establishing Centers of Excellence, mentoring integration teams, governing API standards, and becoming the definitive integration authority across the enterprise. My platform optimization and MuleSoft licensing expertise have consistently delivered significant cost savings, and my work across healthcare and life sciences has spanned some of the most complex enterprise landscapes in the industry. At Parexel, I led the enterprise-wide migration from TIBCO to MuleSoft ahead of schedule, building a governed, standards-based platform that dramatically improved API reusability and accelerated delivery across nine business groups. I then extended that foundation into the next frontier — architecting agentic AI and intelligent automation solutions where MuleSoft, Microsoft AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, ServiceNow, and RPA converge to eliminate manual work and unlock business productivity at scale. The results have been transformative: autonomous AI agents handling end-to-end workflows, self-service automation reducing multi-hour processes to minutes, and RPA-driven solutions saving tens of hours of manual effort every month. I bring the rare combination of deep technical architecture, business fluency, and leadership instinct that makes transformation actually stick — equally at home in a developer design review, a vendor contract negotiation, or an executive strategy session. If you are looking to modernize your integration practice, accelerate your AI and automation journey, or connect with someone passionate about the future of enterprise architecture — I would love to hear from you.

Experience

  • Parexel (Full-time · 5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Director, Enterprise Integration Services
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Principal Enterprise Architect, Integration
      Apr 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Integration Architect, Global IT at IQVIA
    Mar 2008 - Apr 2021 · 13 yrs 2 mos

    Lead enterprise wide API-led connectivity practice using Mulesoft Work with Infrastructure, security and support teams to lay the foundation of enterprise wide Mulesoft practice Provide architecture blueprint, best practices for solutions based on API-Led connectivity using Mulesoft Design and develop multiple Mulesoft ESB solutions Work closely and provide hands on support to development team. Provide architecture guidance, governance, best practices and blueprints for building scalable, high performing, responsive Integration solutions using SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus Responsible for internal and client-facing technical design and delivery of multiple integrations solutions.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Credit Suisse
    2006 - 2008 · 2 yrs

    Architected several data integration projects involving flow of trade using Java/JEE, SOA, Ajax, Spring, Hibernate, Weblogic application server.

  • Senior Software Engineer at GlaxoSmithKline
    2005 - 2006 · 1 yr

    Designed and developed a web based application to perform many types of routine genetic analysis on clinical data.

  • Senior Software Engineer at IBM
    1997 - 2005 · 8 yrs

    Designed and developed data integration applications to enhance internal customer productivity using Java/JEE, Websphere application server, Web Services, Axis.