Senior ICAM Engineer (Top Secret/SCI with agreement to obtain CI Poly Clearance Required)

About the role

North Point Technology is seeking a Senior ICAM Engineer to join a high-impact Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) modernization effort. This is a short-term engagement of approximately seven months requiring an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and willingness to obtain a polygraph within the customer's timeline. U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Implement ICAM modernization designs for PEP, PIP, EMS, and RPMS components, including transitioning from legacy Policy Decision Point (PDP) implementations to modern frameworks.
• Develop and integrate microservices supporting identity, attributes, authorization, resource registration, and policy distribution.
• Translate high-level architectural designs into detailed engineering tasks, technical artifacts, and system interfaces.
• Provide technical input during Program Increment planning, backlog refinement, work estimation, and risk identification in support of Agile delivery.
• Develop new PEP/PIP enforcement patterns—including enforcement endpoints, policy decision integrations, and attribute retrieval mechanisms.
• Enhance EMS and RPMS services through automation of resource and role lifecycle management, attribute orchestration, and policy ingestion workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers on CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure automation, and deployment to Kubernetes or equivalent government application platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex identity, authentication, authorization, and policy-related issues across legacy and modernized components.
• Contribute to engineering documentation including design specifications, data flow diagrams, configuration standards, and interface definitions.
• Participate in integration testing, operational readiness testing, and deployment validation across multiple environments and security domains.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in secure coding, microservices development, and ICAM integration.

Required Skills/Experience

• Hands-on development or integration of systems related to identity management, authentication, or authorization
• Design and implementation of distributed systems or microservices architectures on modern platforms
• Participation in Agile delivery teams, including PI planning, backlog refinement, and iterative capability delivery
• Interpretation of architectural guidance and conversion of designs into maintainable engineering solutions

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Kubernetes or OpenShift for container orchestration and application deployment
• Programming in Java and/or Python
• GitOps tooling and workflows
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, or containerization technologies (e.g., Docker)
• Identity and access standards including X.509, SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, and LDAP
• Oracle ICAM products or similar enterprise ICAM vendor technologies
• Implementation of ABAC/RBAC models, policy-based access controls, and Zero Trust-aligned authorization patterns
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community or Department of Defense identity and authorization systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field, or equivalent experience
• Ability to obtain CompTIA Security+ within 90 days of hire
• Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility required at time of hire
• Must be willing and able to obtain a CI polygraph within the customer's required timeline
• U.S. citizenship required