IAM Platform Engineer - Java & SailPoint

Lancesoft; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Michigan State University seeks an IAM Java & SailPoint Engineer to develop and modernize Java-based IAM applications and SailPoint IIQ, support production operations, and contribute to the IAM Modernization Program as identity workflows move to a future-state platform.

The role involves troubleshooting across the application stack, supporting go-live events, and collaborating with IAM engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable identity services.

Qualifications

• Knowledge equivalent to a four-year degree in a related IT field and five to eight years of progressively responsible enterprise application/IAM experience.
• Hands-on Java development, APIs and systems integration, software testing, secure coding, production support, root-cause troubleshooting, log analysis, technical documentation, and ability to work with technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, reverse engineer, refactor, develop, test, and maintain Java and BeanShell components; build and support Spring Boot services, REST APIs, and enterprise integrations.
• Engineer and support SailPoint IIQ rules, workflows, connectors, provisioning policies, tasks, forms, certifications, attestations, reports, and application onboarding.
• Maintain identity lifecycle workflows, provisioning, reconciliation, access governance, and integrations with HR/authoritative sources, directories, databases, cloud services, and enterprise applications.
• Investigate production incidents end-to-end using Linux and application, middleware, and server logs.
• Diagnose Java deployments and runtime behavior; isolate faults across Java code, Tomcat/JBoss, databases, directory integrations, connectors, and dependent services.
• Support platform upgrades, deployment and performance troubleshooting, stability improvements, technical debt reduction, and modernization/migration of IIQ workflows and integrations; support My Identity/NGP go-live and operations.
• Apply secure engineering practices, unit/integration testing, code reviews, source control, CI/CD, monitoring, metrics, and tracing, document solutions and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with IAM engineers, architects, application owners, vendors, and stakeholders; provide status updates, estimates, incident communication, peer review, cross-training, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Java development

APIs

Systems integration

Software testing

Secure coding

Production support

Root-cause troubleshooting

Log analysis

Technical documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT related field

Tools

SailPoint IIQ

Spring Boot

REST

XML

JSON

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

Michigan State University seeks an IAM Java & SailPoint Engineer to develop and modernize Java-based IAM applications and SailPoint IIQ, support production operations, and contribute to the IAM Modernization Program as identity workflows move to a future-state platform.

The role involves troubleshooting across the application stack, supporting go-live events, and collaborating with IAM engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable identity services.