Senior Sailpoint Analyst

Job Family:

Cyber Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

• Our Cybersecurity Consultants are a team of business integrators with extensive consulting and industry experience who help our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy through execution.

• A career in an integrated team of developers and consultants provides the opportunity to grow and contribute to our clients' business issues every day, applying a collection of security spectrum capabilities, including security strategy and governance, IT risk, security technologies, and cybercrime and breach response.

• As a Senior SailPoint Analyst with Guidehouse, you’ll play a critical role in the world of is responsible for the administration, configuration, optimization, and support of 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.

• The Senior Analyst collaborates with cybersecurity, application owners, infrastructure teams, auditors, and business stakeholders to ensure that identity governance processes align with security policies, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.

• Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, or Computer Science or related field

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred

• MINIMUM of FIVE (5) years of experience in identity and access management, with a MINIMUM of 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, 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 associated issues in SailPoint IIQ

• Experience troubleshooting Okta user authentication and application issues

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and verbal and written communication abilities

• 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

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• 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 with 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)

The annual salary range for this position is $113,000.00-$188,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security cl