Senior SailPoint Identity (IIQ) Engineer/Technical Lead - Durham, NC

We are looking for our client, a global company in the life sciences sector, Senior SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) Engineer to lead development, integration, upgrades, testing, troubleshooting, and technical governance across its on-premises and cloud SailPoint platforms.

This role combines hands-on engineering, L3 production support, and technical leadership of a distributed development team. You will turn business and security requirements into scalable IAM solutions, while keeping the platform stable, secure, high-performing, and easy to maintain. You will work closely with architects, product owners, analysts, and the cybersecurity, infrastructure, HR, ITSM, and application teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Engineering: Design, configure, customize, and maintain IIQ solutions, including workflows, rules, lifecycle events, provisioning, certifications, policies, connectors, and Java/API-based extensions. - Integration: Build and support integrations with HR systems, Active Directory/Entra ID, ServiceNow, SAP, security platforms, databases, and enterprise applications using REST, SOAP, SCIM, JDBC, LDAP, files, and event-based patterns. - Upgrades and modernization: Lead platform upgrades, patches, and migrations, including impact assessments, remediation, test and rollback planning, performance validation, and the adoption of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud capabilities. - L3 support and quality: Resolve complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, improve monitoring and automated testing, and reduce recurring incidents and manual work. - Technical leadership: Guide distributed developers, review designs and code, set reusable standards, estimate work, manage technical risks, and mentor the team. - Architecture and governance: Make sure solutions follow enterprise IAM, cybersecurity, data-protection, coding, and architecture standards. Reduce technical debt and maintain essential documentation. - Stakeholder collaboration: Translate requirements into practical solutions, communicate risks clearly, and identify opportunities for automation and a better user experience.

- 7+ years of hands-on SailPoint Identity development and IAM/identity governance experience, including complex enterprise implementations and L3 support. - Deep knowledge of IIQ architecture, object model, Java APIs, BeanShell, workflows, rules, tasks, identity lifecycle management, provisioning, aggregation, role management, access requests, and certifications. - Proven experience leading major IIQ upgrades, including customization and connector assessment, remediation, regression testing, cutover, rollback and post-upgrade validation. - Strong skills in Java/J2EE, XML, JSON, JavaScript, SQL, regular expressions, APIs, debugging, performance optimization, and secure coding. - Experience with REST/SOAP services, SCIM, JDBC, LDAP, Active Directory/Entra ID, HR platforms, ServiceNow, SAP, and file-based integrations. - Working knowledge of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (IdentityNow), cloud connectors and APIs, lifecycle processes, and IIQ-to-cloud migration concepts. - Experience with Git, CI/CD tools, automated testing and deployment, Linux/Unix, application servers, JVM troubleshooting, certificates, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery. - Ability to lead independently across global teams, mentor developers, manage priorities, solve complex problems, and communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

- SailPoint IdentityIQ or Identity Security Cloud certification - Cybersecurity/IAM, ITIL, or cloud certification - Experience leading global teams - Experience in regulated enterprise environments - Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

What Success Looks Like

- Stable, secure, and reliable SailPoint operations with fewer recurring incidents - High-quality, maintainable development and successful upgrades with minimal disruption - Timely delivery of scalable integrations, automation and IAM enhancements - Stronger testing discipline, team capability and technical collaboration - Reduced technical debt and measurable progress toward a modern IAM architecture

- Location: Durham, NC - Hybrid position: Hybrid 2-3 days/week - Employment type: Contract, hourly paid - Starting date: October 2026 - Project Length: 1 year contract - renewable - Industry: Life Science

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