SailPoint Engineer

Role: SailPoint Engineer
Location: Coventry
Day Rate: Competitive
Sector: Financial Services

About the Role

A leading Financial Services organisation is seeking an experienced SailPoint Engineer to support identity governance and automation across a complex, multi‑tenant environment. You'll lead the design, configuration, integration and deployment of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, supporting both enterprise and hybrid setups.

This is a senior hands‑on engineering role where you will act as a subject matter expert, guiding technical standards, mentoring delivery teams, and ensuring a secure, scalable and compliant identity posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end design, configuration and deployment of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud across enterprise environments.
• Integrate SailPoint with key platforms including HR systems, Active Directory, Entra ID, AWS, ServiceNow, and other authoritative sources.
• Own application onboarding using JML automation, including JDBC, delimited files, SCIM, REST, SOAP and custom connectors.
• Implement identity governance for non‑employees, privileged users and machine identities.
• Support tenant migrations, HR consolidations and alignment of policies and connectors across environments.
• Mentor engineers on connector development, workflow automation and lifecycle configuration.
• Build and maintain automation using BeanShell, PowerShell, Java, and REST/SOAP APIs.
• Collaborate with InfoSec, DevSecOps and Compliance teams to strengthen governance, auditing and least‑privilege controls.
• Develop and optimise access certifications, risk‑based access controls and automated onboarding/offboarding processes.

Required Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale deployments of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
• Strong integration expertise across Active Directory, Entra ID, AWS and ServiceNow.
• Advanced scripting capability: BeanShell, PowerShell, Java, API integrations.
• Deep understanding of identity lifecycle management, Zero Trust principles and IGA governance.
• Experience delivering complex IGA programmes in a regulated environment (financial services preferred).
• Strong understanding of JML workflows and automation.

Desirable:

• Agile delivery experience.
• Certifications such as SailPoint ISC Engineer, CISSP, CISM.
• Experience with collaboration tooling (MS Teams / Zoom).
• Exposure to Identity AI for risk‑based access and anomaly detection.