Senior Sailpoint Analyst

About the Role

Our Cybersecurity Consultants are a team of business integrators with extensive consulting and industry experience who help clients solve complex business issues from strategy through execution. As a Senior SailPoint Analyst with Guidehouse, you’ll play a critical role in administering, configuring, optimizing, and supporting SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) and related Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions. This role serves as a subject matter expert for identity lifecycle management, access certifications, role-based access control (RBAC), segregation of duties (SoD), provisioning, and compliance reporting. You will collaborate with cybersecurity, application owners, infrastructure teams, auditors, and business stakeholders to ensure identity governance processes align with security policies, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain SailPoint IdentityIQ environments across development, test, and production.
• Monitor and support identity aggregation, account correlation, and provisioning activities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve identity and access management issues.
• Perform system upgrades, patches, and platform maintenance activities.
• Manage access certification campaigns and remediation activities.
• Create and modify SailPoint workflows, rules, forms, tasks, certifications, and policies.
• Monitor and report on access governance metrics and key performance indicators.
• Identify and mitigate identity-related security risks.
• Partner with cybersecurity, IAM, application owners, and business leaders to implement governance controls.
• Participate in change management, incident management, and release management processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD "Public Trust" clearance; candidates must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding. Active Public Trust or suitability preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in identity and access management, with at least three (3) years focused on SailPoint IIQ and/or Okta.
• Familiarity with federal compliance frameworks (e.g., FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
• Experience with collaboration platforms such as SharePoint, JIRA, and ServiceNow.
• Knowledge of SailPoint IIQ and/or Okta, including features, integrations, and architecture in a full IAM stack.
• Experience troubleshooting identity correlation and identity cube issues in SailPoint IIQ.
• Experience troubleshooting Okta user authentication and application issues.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills.
• Attention to detail and commitment to security best practices.
• Ability to work independently and lead complex initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active security clearance.
• SailPoint IdentityIQ certification(s).
• Okta certifications (e.g., Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, Developer).
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Okta Workflows).
• Strong experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Okta workflows.
• Experience supporting Federal IT projects that integrate multiple IAM technologies.
• Additional relevant cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP, CISM).

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $113,000.00–$188,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on skill sets, experience, training, security clearances, licensure, certifications, and business needs.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
• Personal and family sick time, plus company-paid holidays.
• Discretionary variable incentive bonus eligibility.
• Parental leave and adoption assistance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Basic life and supplemental life insurance.
• Health savings account, dental/vision, and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Student loan paydown and tuition reimbursement.
• Personal development and learning opportunities, including skills development and certifications.
• Employee referral program.
• Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.
• Emergency back-up childcare program.
• Mobility stipend.

Schedule

Travel required up to 10%.