SailPoint IIQ Application Lead

Persistent Systems; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Persistent Systems in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced IAM leader to head application onboarding into SailPoint IIQ. You will guide a team across onboarding, design, testing, and support, working with Oracle HR integrations and various connectors in a hybrid environment.

The role demands strong English communication, collaboration with stakeholders, and robust documentation, with a focus on timely milestones and quality delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on leadership of IAM teams with international client exposure.
• Extensive SailPoint IIQ design, onboarding, and RBAC implementation experience.
• Strong experience with Oracle HR onboarding into SailPoint and related integrations.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a team for application onboarding into SailPoint IIQ.
• Maintain operations support and triage P1/P2 incidents for IAM solutions.
• Design and enhance JML workflows and connectors within SailPoint IIQ.
• Engage with stakeholders and provide clear, actionable reporting.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

English fluency

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Tools

SailPoint IIQ

Oracle HR system

ServiceNow

SCIM / Webservices

MSSQL / MySQL

AWS

PowerShell

AD connector

Job description

We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We have delivered 21 sequential quarters of growth with $389.7M in Q1 FY26 revenue, up 3.9% Q-o-Q and 18.8% Y-o-Y growth. Our 25,000+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We have been named the fastest-growing Indian IT services brand in the “Brand Finance India 100” 2025 report. We were also cited as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ 2025 for Digital Engineering Services 2025 and the Everest Group Talent Readiness for Next-generation Application Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.

About Position and details:

• Mode: Hybrid
• Experience: 5 to 15 years
• Job Type: Permanent role

Job Summary:

We are looking for profile who has minimum 4 years hands on experience in Identity & Access Management and 3 to 5 years’ hands-on APPLICATION ONBOARDING WITH DEVELOPER experience in SailPoint.

THIS PERSON WILL LEAD A TEAM FOR APPLICATION ONBOARDING INTO SAILPOINT IIQ.

MUST HAVE:

• EXPERIENCE IN LEADING A TEAM, COORDINATING WORK, GUIDING THEIR REPORTS.
• PROFICIENT IN SPEAKING CONFIDENTLY, CONCISELY AND EFFECTIVELY TO ALL LEVELS OF MANAGEMENT/STAKEHOLDERS.
• EXCELLENT REPORTING AND DOCUMENTATIONS SKILLS.
• EXPERIENCE IN APPLICATION ONBOARDING – (SAILPOINT IIQ)
• Experience with creating and supporting/improving existing JML custom workflows for SailPoint IIQ automation plus any other SailPoint requirement as per requirement.

• This role will provide a thorough experience in SailPoint IIQ design, testing, implementation and support.
• This role will provide an opportunity to enhance their overall skills in development and operations in Identity & Access management domain which is niche skill in the IT industry in a small company that has a large footprint.

Required Developer experience:

• Preferably from a consultancy background - hence should have worked for international client projects
• Will have strong developer experience in SailPoint IIQ
• Hold official SailPoint IIQ Engineer and Architect qualifications.
• Will have provided operation support to live solutions
• Will be able to build and configure the SailPoint IIQ product
• Will be able to create customized workflows as per requirement from scratch
• Will be able to create customized JML workflows as per requirement from scratch
• Will be able to meet all milestones in time
• Will be able to work effectively with team
• Team training on advanced topics where necessary providing clear documentation
• Implementing all types of connectors, designing workflows where necessary.
• Will have a strong knowledge/experience on RBAC design and implementation
• Have solid experience in onboarding a new authoritative source (Oracle HR system) into SailPoint

Required Operational Experience:

• Candidate will be expected to help with operations in times where development work is not required.
• Will be the customer point of contact for any SailPoint issues.
• Will be responsible for handling all troubleshooting issues
• Will be responsible to handle P1 & P2 issues.
• Will be responsible for new application integration.
• For project work, working to stakeholder agreed timelines using RAG indictors.
• SailPoint Clean-ups
• Experience of Change / Release Management within enterprise environments.
• Mature understanding of SailPoint connector framework including OOTB connector and custom connector development based on the framework - good experience with:
• AD connector
• ServiceNow connector
• SCIM/Webservices connector
• Hybrid connectors (two or more in one integration)
• Good understanding of onboarding SASS applications and challenges.
• Have experience with scripting.
• Have a security and risk mindset
• Be able to perform root cause analysis and post-mortem on escalations related to access management topics
• Experience with (MSSQL, MySQL)
• He will have experience on certification campaigns
• He will have good understanding of IAM governance and best practices in accordance with company security policy
• Be able to converse with Audit.
• Be able to converse with Stakeholders
• Be able to represent IAM team in meetings
• Reporting from SailPoint IIQ
• Good troubleshooting skills
• Team player
• Good documenter
• English level high (spoken and written)
• Disaster Recovery experience
• AWS Experience
• Experience in Active Directory and PowerShell
• Understanding of PAM (Centrify or Cyber-Ark)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

“Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.”