Lead SailPoint Developer

Lead SailPoint Developer

Location: Houston, TX 77002

Pay Rate: $90/HR W-2

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead SailPoint Developer to support a complex Identity and Access Management (IAM) migration initiative. This role will provide hands-on technical leadership across the design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, and production stabilization of SailPoint solutions.

The ideal candidate will have deep SailPoint IdentityIQ experience and exceptional expertise developing, troubleshooting, and optimizing complex SailPoint Rules using Java and BeanShell.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and development activities for the SailPoint migration.
• Assess existing IAM configurations, integrations, workflows, policies, and customizations.
• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize complex SailPoint Rules using Java and BeanShell.
• Configure and customize SailPoint IdentityIQ to meet business and security requirements.
• Design and implement application onboarding, account aggregation, identity correlation, provisioning, deprovisioning, and reconciliation processes.
• Develop and support Build Map, Connector, Correlation, Identity, Provisioning, Validation, Workflow, and Certification Rules.
• Migrate existing rules, workflows, connectors, policies, and integrations into the target SailPoint environment.
• Evaluate legacy customizations and determine whether they should be migrated, redesigned, optimized, or retired.
• Develop custom connectors and integrations for applications that cannot utilize standard SailPoint connectors.
• Configure lifecycle events, access requests, approval workflows, roles, policies, and access certifications.
• Troubleshoot complex rule execution, provisioning, aggregation, performance, and integration issues.
• Perform code reviews and establish development standards for SailPoint configurations and custom code.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, application, and business teams to gather and translate IAM requirements.
• Create technical designs, migration documentation, deployment procedures, test scripts, and operational support documentation.
• Lead unit testing, integration testing, UAT, defect resolution, and production deployment activities.
• Mentor SailPoint developers and provide technical guidance throughout the project.
• Support production stabilization and knowledge transfer following the migration.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Identity and Access Management experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on SailPoint IdentityIQ development experience.
• Advanced experience developing and troubleshooting SailPoint Rules.
• Strong development experience with Java, BeanShell, XML, REST APIs, JSON, SQL, and web services.
• Deep understanding of the SailPoint object model, APIs, workflows, rules, connectors, provisioning plans, and identity cubes.
• Demonstrated experience leading SailPoint migrations, upgrades, or major platform transformations.
• Experience onboarding applications using JDBC, REST, SOAP, LDAP, Active Directory, flat-file, and other standard connectors.
• Strong knowledge of identity aggregation, correlation, provisioning, access requests, certifications, roles, policies, and separation-of-duties controls.
• Experience integrating SailPoint with Active Directory, Entra ID/Azure AD, HR platforms, directories, databases, and enterprise applications.
• Ability to analyze and refactor complex custom rules for reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Experience with Git or another source-control platform and structured code promotion across environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SailPoint IdentityIQ Engineer, Architect, or equivalent certification.
• Experience migrating from a legacy IAM platform to SailPoint.
• Experience upgrading SailPoint IdentityIQ across major versions.
• Familiarity with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
• Experience working in large, highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, privileged access management, authentication, authorization, and identity-governance best practices.
• Experience supporting audit, regulatory compliance, and access-control requirements.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on SailPoint technical lead who can independently evaluate an existing IAM environment and guide its migration into SailPoint.

This person must be particularly strong in SailPoint Rules and capable of developing, reviewing, debugging, and optimizing complex Java- and BeanShell-based logic. The candidate should be comfortable making technical decisions while remaining actively involved in development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and production stabilization.