SailPoint Solution Architect (SA) — Enterprise Identity Security 

About the Role & Mission  -

As a Solution Architect (SA) at SailPoint, you serve as a Principal-Level Identity Security Strategist for our most strategic enterprise accounts. Your mission is to own the multi-year platform adoption roadmap, architecting unified governance across human, machine, and emerging AI agent identities. You bridge the gap between technical architecture and business value, ensuring every deployment across SailPoint Human Fabric and SailPoint Agentic Fabric translates into business value, breach risk reduction, compliance efficiency, and cost avoidance. 

You act as a peer and trusted advisor to customer CISOs, CIOs, and VP-level engineering leaders. Guided by SailPoint's core values—Innovation, Integrity, Impact, and Individuals—you partner with Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to secure renewals, drive expansions, and channel field patterns back to Product Management and Engineering. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Platform Adoption Roadmap Ownership: Design and govern multi-year adoption roadmaps across ISC, Agentic Fabric, DAS, MIS, and Harbor Pilot based on customer maturity and business priorities. 

• Unified Identity Architecture: Architect comprehensive governance models across human, non-human/machine, and autonomous AI agents, ensuring policy coherence and robust integrations across enterprise ecosystems. 

• Executive Technical Advisory: Advise C-suite and VP-level stakeholders, articulating complex technical concepts in board-level cyber risk and financial ROI terms. 

• Agentic Identity Governance: Pioneer adoption of the SailPoint Agentic Fabric, guiding clients through AI agent discovery, risk-tier classification, human ownership mapping, and dynamic least privilege. 

• Regulatory Compliance Translation: Map complex mandates (DORA, NIS2, SEC disclosures, SOX, HIPAA) into native platform controls, certification schedules, and access policies. 

• Cross-Account Synthesis & Product Influence: Synthesize field anti-patterns and technical gaps into reusable frameworks, advocating customer needs to the SailPoint Tech Council and Product teams. 

• Commercial Alignment & Mentorship: Partner with CSMs on Joint Success Plans to protect renewals and justify expansions, while mentoring Solution Architects and supporting other Technical Advisors. 

Path to Success 

• 30 Days (Immersion): Complete deep enablement on SailPoint’s portfolio (ISC, NERM, DAS, Atlas); shadow strategic customer engagements, Executive Business Reviews (EBRs), and internal consulting practices. 

• 60 Days (Collaboration): Partner with CSMs to deliver joint maturity assessments; align business drivers with SailPoint architecture; design integration roadmaps (ServiceNow, SAP, AD, Workday, etc). 

• 90 Days (Ownership): Act as lead strategic advisor on assigned accounts; co-create forward-looking success plans; advocate technical gaps to Product/Engineering and the Tech Council. 

Role Requirements & Core Capabilities 

Candidates are evaluated against standard principal-level advisory qualifications and the Technical Advisor Capability Model: 

• Core Competency & Capability Pillars 

• Platform Adoption Roadmap: Demonstrated ability to sequence complex multi-phase enterprise SaaS adoptions. 

• Unified Identity Governance: Hands-on mastery of IGA/IAM architectures spanning employees, contractors, machine/service accounts, and AI agents. 

• Executive Advisory & Storytelling: Proven aptitude for translating technical controls into business risk reduction and financial value for C-level audiences. 

• Emerging Tech & AI Governance: Working knowledge of AI-driven solutions, autonomous agent governance, or modern workload security. 

• Regulatory: Familiarity translating regulatory frameworks (NIS2, DORA, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR) into security architectures. 

• Continuous Learning & Agility: Strong growth mindset with demonstrated commitment to expanding technical mastery across the identity domain. 

• Experience & Background 

• Professional Experience: 7+ years of professional work experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Enterprise Security Architecture. SailPoint preferred. 

• Implementation Experience: 3+ years of direct software implementation, Enterprise Solution Design, or Systems Architecture experience. SailPoint preferred. 

• Consultative Skills: Strong collaborative mindset, comfortable partnering with sales/CSM teams and leading discussions across both technical engineering teams and non-IT business units (HR, Legal, Finance). 

• Education & Certifications 

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Certifications (Preferred): 

• CyberSecurity credentials: e.g.: CISSP, CISM, CISA, TOGAF. 

• SailPoint certifications (Identity Security Cloud or IdentityIQ). 

• Language Requirements 

• Language Proficiency: Fluent in French. 

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability. We evaluate applicants using job-related, objective, and non-discriminatory criteria. Our job titles, job descriptions, and recruitment processes are intended to be gender-neutral and to support equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for participation in one of our performance-based cash compensation programs - the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission plan, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The base salary for this role will be in this range from (min-max, LOCAL CURRENCY):

Additional offerings include a variety of benefits, including health, retirement, EAP, leave support, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on location, date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements or local statutory requirements. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.