Principal Architect SME - SailPoint

MD

Full Time Part Time:
Contingent

JSL delivers customer‑centric IT solutions for Federal, State and local governments. We offer our customers three distinct advantages: expertise in our service offerings, leadership that drives innovation, and a culture focused on customer satisfaction. Our mission is to cultivate relationships, responsibility and results through people, purpose and process.

Hybrid Role – Ability to travel 20‑40%, on average, to the DC area based on frequency of client meetings and level of project engagement required.

Position Description
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The SailPoint Senior Architect / Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) SME will serve as a senior technical authority responsible for the architecture, design, integration, enhancement, and operation of enterprise SailPoint Identity IQ capabilities supporting a large federal customer.

The Senior Architect will provide technical leadership for SailPoint‑based credential and identity lifecycle management services operating within an AWS Gov Cloud / FedRAMP High environment, including identity aggregation and correlation, provisioning, access governance, entitlement certification, application integration, authoritative‑source integration, and DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) reporting.

The individual will work closely with ICAM, PAM/Cyber Ark, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, application, and operations teams to ensure the SailPoint environment is secure, scalable, highly available, auditable, and capable of meeting federal operational and security requirements.

• Serve as a senior SailPoint Identity IQ architect and IGA SME, providing architecture direction, solution design, technical governance, and Tier 3 engineering support.
• Develop and maintain SailPoint architecture for a large, complex, multi‑bureau federal environment, including appropriate separation and governance of bureau identity and entitlement data.
• Architect and oversee SailPoint Identity IQ workflows, identity lifecycle, provisioning, entitlement governance, recertification, correlation, reporting, and connector health.
• Lead integrations with products such as HRConnect, USAccess, ITM, Mule Soft, WebTA, Concur, Active Directory, Azure, WC2‑H, bureau applications, Service Now, and agency‑specific authoritative/application sources.
• Ensure continuous population and quality of DHS CDM Master User Record elements including TRUST, CRED, BEHAVE, and PRIV and support required audit/reporting data.
• Provide architecture leadership for approval metadata, entitlements, NPE/service‑account workflows, data integrity/correlation, reporting jobs, and application connectors.
• Design for 99.9% availability, resilient operations, backup/restore, DR, patching, monitoring, and secure operation in AWS Gov Cloud FedRAMP High.
• Coordinate SailPoint integration with Cyber Ark for privileged identity data and with Splunk/Cloud Watch, ITSM, and agency security/monitoring services.
• Lead Tier 3 troubleshooting, RCA, connector remediation, architecture reviews, technical documentation, runbooks/SOPs, and Federal workforce knowledge transfer.
• Support cybersecurity and authorization activities including NIST 800‑53/RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP High, vulnerability remediation, POA&M remediation, audit inquiries, and ATO maintenance.
• Collaborating with client stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to gather requirements, translate business needs into technical solutions, and manage scope, timelines, dependencies, and delivery quality.
• Provide technical leadership, code/configuration reviews, and mentoring to SailPoint engineers, developers, and administrators.
• Support structured knowledge transfer to Federal personnel, including architecture, integrations, workflows, escalation procedures, and operational processes.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; 10+ years of IAM/ICAM…