About Cognizant
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At Cognizant, careers transcend titles. We empower our people to think strategically, inspire others, and lead with purpose, always guided by our core values. Join us in shaping the future of business. Could you be the one to make a difference?
About the Role
As a Senior SailPoint Engineering Lead, you will drive the architecture, engineering, implementation, governance, and strategic direction of SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) platforms. You will be a key member of the Identity and Access Management team, collaborating with security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-scale identity governance solutions.
This is a player-coach role requiring significant hands-on technical involvement while providing leadership, mentoring, and strategic direction for SailPoint platform transformation initiatives. You will have the autonomy to lead modernization efforts, drive automation, improve governance controls, and influence security architecture decisions across hybrid and cloud environments.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead technical ownership, architecture, and strategic direction for SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) platforms.
- Design and implement enterprise identity governance, provisioning, lifecycle management, access request, certification, and compliance capabilities.
- Drive cloud identity governance initiatives across Azure, AWS, GCP, SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Lead SailPoint ISC onboarding, integrations, workflows, automation, governance controls, and platform transformation programs.
- Mentor SailPoint engineers while providing hands-on leadership in solution design, troubleshooting, automation, cloud access governance, and security architecture.
What You Must Have to Be Considered
- 9+ years of Identity and Access Management (IAM) experience.
- 5+ years of SailPoint architecture and engineering experience.
- Expert-level hands-on experience with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC).
- Deep expertise implementing and supporting SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and SailPoint ISC.
- Experience leading SailPoint cloud transformation, IIQ-to-ISC migration, and modernization initiatives.
- Strong expertise in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), access certifications, role engineering, entitlement governance, and Joiner-Mover-Leaver lifecycle management.
- Experience implementing cloud identity governance across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform environments.
- Strong experience integrating SailPoint with Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, ServiceNow, HR systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications.
- Expertise with SCIM, REST APIs, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, JDBC, LDAP, Java, and BeanShell.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments with 50,000+ identities and thousands of integrated applications.
- Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
- A strong sense of ownership, desire to create meaningful outcomes, and passion for delivering secure and scalable identity solutions.
- The embodiment of Cognizant’s Values of: Work as One, Dare to Innovate, Raise the Bar, Do the Right Thing, and Own It.
These Will Help You Succeed
- SailPoint Certified Identity Security Leader (CISL).
- SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ Engineer.
- SailPoint Certified IdentityIQ Architect.
- SailPoint Identity Security Cloud Professional Certification.
- SailPoint Identity Security Cloud Engineer Certification.
- SailPoint Identity Security Cloud Architect Certification.
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate.
- CISSP certification.
- CISM certification.
- Experience with Identity Threat Detection, Access Risk Insights, Activity Insights, Infrastructure Entitlement Management, Zero Trust Architecture, and Cloud Security governance.
Work Model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring attendance at a client or Cognizant office as determined by business needs. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ : CTSH) est un AI Builder et une entreprise de services numériques (ESN) élaborant des solutions complètes d’IA maximisant les investissements pour des résultats concrets. Sa profonde expertise des métiers, des processus et des technologies lui permet d’intégrer dans les systèmes technologiques le contexte unique de chaque organisation de l’ingénierie à la production à l’échelle. Son objectif : améliorer l’efficacité des équipes, créer de la valeur et permettre aux grandes entreprises de rester performantes dans un monde qui évolue rapidement. Pour en savoir plus : cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
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