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About The Role

As a Senior SailPoint Engineering Lead, you will drive the architecture, engineering, implementation, governance, and strategic direction of SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) platforms. You will be a key member of the Identity and Access Management team, collaborating with security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-scale identity governance solutions.





This is a player-coach role requiring significant hands-on technical involvement while providing leadership, mentoring, and strategic direction for SailPoint platform transformation initiatives. You will have the autonomy to lead modernization efforts, drive automation, improve governance controls, and influence security architecture decisions across hybrid and cloud environments.

In This Role, You Will

Lead technical ownership, architecture, and strategic direction for SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) platforms.
Design and implement enterprise identity governance, provisioning, lifecycle management, access request, certification, and compliance capabilities.
Drive cloud identity governance initiatives across Azure, AWS, GCP, SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Lead SailPoint ISC onboarding, integrations, workflows, automation, governance controls, and platform transformation programs.
Mentor SailPoint engineers while providing h

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