SailPoint technical lead

Resolve Tech Solutions; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Resolve Tech Solutions seeks a Lead SailPoint Developer to oversee the design, development, configuration, testing, and deployment of SailPoint solutions. You will lead migrations and upgrades, and develop SailPoint Rules with Java and BeanShell in a complex IAM migration project.

The ideal candidate combines deep IdentityIQ expertise with hands-on leadership, capable of guiding a team through architecture decisions, implementation, testing, and production stabilization.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of identity and access management experience.
• Five or more years of hands-on SailPoint IdentityIQ development experience.
• Advanced experience developing and troubleshooting SailPoint Rules.
• Strong Java, BeanShell, XML, REST API, JSON, SQL, and web-services development skills.
• 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 through 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 using Git or another source-control platform and supporting structured code promotion across environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the design, development, configuration, testing, and deployment of SailPoint solutions.
• Lead SailPoint migrations, upgrades, or major platform transformations.
• Develop, review, and optimize SailPoint rules using Java and BeanShell.
• Onboard applications through JDBC, REST, SOAP, LDAP, and other connectors; ensure reliable integration.
• Mentor and guide junior developers and ensure production stability.

Skills

Identity & access management

SailPoint IdentityIQ development

SailPoint Rules development

Java

BeanShell

XML

REST API

JSON

SQL

Web services

SailPoint object model

APIs integration

Tools

Git

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead SailPoint Developer to support a complex identity and access management migration initiative. This individual will provide hands‑on technical leadership across the design, development, configuration, testing, and deployment of SailPoint solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep SailPoint IdentityIQ experience and exceptional expertise developing, troubleshooting, and optimizing SailPoint Rules using Java and BeanShell.

Required Qualifications

• Seven or more years of identity and access management experience.
• Five or more years of hands‑on SailPoint IdentityIQ development experience.
• Advanced experience developing and troubleshooting SailPoint Rules.
• Strong Java, BeanShell, XML, REST API, JSON, SQL, and web‑services development skills.
• 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 through 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 using Git or another source‑control platform and supporting 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 between major versions.
• Familiarity with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is beneficial.
• 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 leading technical decisions while remaining actively involved in development, testing, deployment, and production stabilization.