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About the Role

Provide technical leadership across complex identity and access management engagements, acting as a trusted advisor and subject-matter expert in designing, delivering, and governing enterprise-grade SailPoint solutions. Translate business and security requirements into practical, scalable, and compliant identity outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of SailPoint-based Identity Governance and Administration solutions across the full lifecycle.
Set technical direction through practical solution patterns, engineering standards, reference architectures, and delivery approaches.
Lead customer and stakeholder discussions, explaining complex identity and security concepts and providing pragmatic recommendations.
Guide engineers and delivery teams through complex technical challenges and review designs, configurations, code, and integrations.
Design, implement, and support enterprise SailPoint solutions for identity lifecycle management, access governance, and compliance.
Apply hands-on expertise across joiner, mover, and leaver processes, identity aggregation, access requests, role management, access certifications, SoD controls, and automated provisioning/deprovisioning.
Lead application onboarding, connector configuration, and identity data integration across various environments (AD, Entra ID, HRIS, ERP, ITSM, SaaS, custom applications).
Use secure integration patterns, including APIs, web services, messaging, file-based interfaces, and modern authentication protocols.
Support SailPoint upgrades, migrations, customization, environment management, and releases with repeatable approaches.
Ensure solutions provide strong auditability, compliance evidence, performance, troubleshooting, and operational support, aligning with least privilege and SoD requirements.
Develop scalable solution architectures and identity governance models addressing business, regulatory, and security requirements.
Assess existing identity environments and define practical modernization roadmaps.
Apply secure-by-design principles, including least privilege, defense in depth, continuous verification, and full attribution.
Identify and manage risks related to identity data, privileged access, integrations, and authentication flows.
Promote version control, configuration management, automated testing, repeatable deployments, release and change management, secure coding, and configuration practices.
Maintain clear technical documentation, operational runbooks, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Improve delivery through automation, reusable components, and consistent implementation standards.
Participate in design reviews, technical governance, quality assurance, and post-implementation reviews.
Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and senior stakeholders, facilitating workshops and design forums.
Communicate recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Support pre-sales activities, including solution shaping, estimates, proposals, demonstrations, and technical presentations.
Mentor engineers and grow SailPoint and identity capability through knowledge sharing, patterns, playbooks, reusable assets, and internal enablement.
Build effective relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal delivery teams.

Requirements

Must hold an NV1 security clearance or be willing and eligible to obtain and maintain one.
Extensive hands-on experience delivering enterprise SailPoint solutions across architecture, implementation, configuration, integration, customization, troubleshooting, and operational support.
Proven expertise across Identity Governance and Administration, including identity lifecycle management; joiner, mover, and leaver automation; access requests and approvals; access certifications and reviews; role and entitlement management; segregation-of-duties policies; provisioning and deprovisioning; and application onboarding and connector integration.
Experience integrating SailPoint with complex enterprise environments, including directories, HR systems, cloud platforms, databases, SaaS applications, and custom systems.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery across complex identity and security engagements, from solution architecture and technical design through implementation planning and operational documentation.
Strong understanding of identity and security principles, including least privilege, role-based access control, identity lifecycle management, auditability, and separation of duties.
Ability to troubleshoot complex platform, integration, and identity-data issues.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership within delivery teams.

Skills

SailPoint
Identity Governance and Administration
Identity lifecycle management
Joiner, mover, and leaver automation
Access requests and approvals
Access certifications and reviews
Role and entitlement management
Segregation-of-duties policies
Provisioning and deprovisioning
Application onboarding
Connector integration
Active Directory
Microsoft Entra ID
HRIS
ERP
ITSM
SaaS
APIs
Web services
Messaging
File-based interfaces
Modern authentication protocols
Least privilege
Defense in depth
Continuous verification
Full attribution
Version control
Configuration management
Automated testing
Repeatable deployments
Release and change management
Secure coding practices
Secure configuration practices
Technical documentation
Operational runbooks
Monitoring
Logging
Alerting
Automation
Reusable components
Implementation standards
Design reviews
Technical governance
Quality assurance
Post-implementation reviews
Stakeholder management
Consulting
Pre-sales activities
Solution shaping
Estimates
Proposals
Demonstrations
Technical presentations
Knowledge sharing
Playbooks
Reusable assets
Internal enablement
SailPoint IdentityIQ
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud
Java
BeanShell
SQL
Scripting
ServiceNow
Workday
Security frameworks
Compliance obligations
Identity governance controls
Cloud
DevOps
Infrastructure-as-code
CI/CD
Saviynt
Okta
Ping

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal
Senior

Benefits

Flexibility and autonomy
Craft 180 Program for skill and capability development
Salary packaging
Purchased leave
Novated leasing options
Health & Wellbeing Programmes (mental, physical, emotional, financial)
Regular social activities
Reward & recognition programmes
Opportunity to work on diverse projects and initiatives

About the Company

Versent is a company with a diverse team of motivated individuals who think outside the box and strive to deliver the impossible.
Versent focuses on cultivating a culture of learning, collaboration, and growth, providing teams with space, trust, and support to deliver their best work.
The company culture highly values continual feedback, excellence, and invention anchored in customer success.

Equal Opportunity

Versent does not adhere to a one-size-fits-all hiring strategy and celebrates diverse perspectives.
If you believe you can thrive in this opportunity, apply even if you don't meet all criteria.
Accommodations can be requested throughout the interview process by emailing careers@versent.com.au.