Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities:

Actively participate in the sales process and work closely with the direct and channel sales teams

Discover and understand customer requirements and align our solutions to those requirements, augmenting your expertise with AI tooling

Participate in onsite and remote foundational implementation engagements

Educate customers on high-level product architecture, functional design, and best practices

Assist in the analysis, and documentation of customer requirements and how they map to SailPoint solutions

Collaborate with cross-functional teams like sales, solution engineering, product, professional services, and customer success to ensure a seamless customer experience

Collaborate with other Forward Deployed Engineering team members to design creative solutions to complex problems.

Master Artificial Intelligence and Agentic technologies to solve customer problems.

Contribute to building out Agentic technology solutions that become our standard for demonstrations of SailPoint’s products.

Requirements:

5-7+ years of professional work experience as part of an enterprise software company, systems integrator, or consulting firm; 3+ years of software implementation or pre-sales experience. Experience in software development, implementation, and configuration

Excellent communications skills and extensive experience working directly with clients and partners

A working knowledge of technical infrastructure including web services, application servers, databases, virtualization, and directories is required

Conversant in modern SaaS architecture

Experience with agentic coding tools such as

Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, Google Antigravity, GitHub CoPilot, OpenAI Codex

Familiarity with Java, XML, LDAP, SQL, JSON, Azure/AWS/GCP is desirable

Experience with the following tech-stack

NodeJS, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, React.js

Preferred:

3+ years working with Identity, Governance and Access Management solutions

Experience with at least one of the following; SpringBoot, SpringMVC, XML, SPML/SOAP, web and application servers

Windows and Unix (Linux, Sun, HP, AIX) platforms

Relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, MySQL)

NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis)

Directories (LDAP, AD)

Java, BeanShell, JavaScript Node.js

Enterprise resource planning or service management systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, ServiceNow)

Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Front-end language experience (HTML, CSS, Angular, React, Vue.js)

Familiarity with SailPoint products and vendors such as Saviynt, RSA/Aveksa, One Identity, Oralce Identity Manager, etc..

Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts

Experience with project management duties (project planning, resource management, scope, schedule and status, documentation)

Experience with quality assurance duties (usability testing, performance testing, automated testing, test scripts, test cases and test plans)

Security software or IT audit experience

Education:

Computer Science degree, Engineering degree, or equivalent experience

J2EE certification and/or CISSP certification is a plus

SailPoint Certified Engineer or Solution Architect is a plus and is expected within 12 months of hire

Travel:

This position may require up to 15% travel

Skills Required
5-7+ years professional experience at an enterprise software company, systems integrator, or consulting firm; 3+ years software implementation or pre-sales experience
Experience in software development, implementation, and configuration
Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working directly with clients and partners
Working knowledge of technical infrastructure including web services, application servers, databases, virtualization, and directories
Conversant in modern SaaS architecture
Experience with agentic coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex)
Experience with tech stack: NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React.js
Familiarity with Java, XML, LDAP, SQL, JSON, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
3+ years working with Identity, Governance, and Access Management solutions (preferred)
Experience with SpringBoot, SpringMVC, SPML/SOAP, web and application servers (preferred)
Experience with Windows and Unix (Linux, Sun, HP, AIX) platforms (preferred)
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) (preferred)
Experience with directories (LDAP, Active Directory) (preferred)
Experience integrating with ERP or service management systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, ServiceNow) (preferred)
Front-end languages and frameworks (HTML, CSS, Angular, React, Vue.js) (preferred)
Familiarity with SailPoint products and identity vendors (Saviynt, RSA/Aveksa, One Identity, Oracle Identity Manager) (preferred)
Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts (preferred)
Experience with project management and quality assurance duties (preferred)
Security software or IT audit experience (preferred)
Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent experience
J2EE certification and/or CISSP (plus)
SailPoint Certified Engineer or Solution Architect (plus; expected within 12 months of hire)