IAM/IGA Technical Project Manager

Role Description

Pearl Consulting Group is seeking a highly technical IAM/IGA Project Manager to lead complex identity governance and administration engagements from planning through production deployment. This role is designed for someone who began their career as an IAM/IGA engineer, technical lead, or architect and has since developed strong project and client leadership skills.

• Own the end-to-end delivery of IAM/IGA consulting engagements, including discovery, scope definition, planning, estimation, resourcing, execution, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Lead implementations involving Saviynt and/or SailPoint, including SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and IdentityIQ.
• Translate business, security, and compliance requirements into clear technical workstreams, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with architects and engineers to review solution designs, integration patterns, identity data flows, connector strategies, provisioning logic, and workflow configurations.
• Identify technical risks early and work with engineering teams to resolve architecture, integration, data-quality, environment, and platform-related blockers.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and change requests.
• Serve as the primary delivery contact for clients, leading working sessions, project status meetings, steering committees, technical discussions, and escalation conversations.
• Coordinate work across IAM engineering, infrastructure, application, security, compliance, audit, HR, and business teams.
• Drive delivery of core IGA capabilities such as joiner/mover/leaver processes, access requests, provisioning and deprovisioning, access certifications, application onboarding, role management, and segregation-of-duties controls.
• Ensure project plans account for requirements gathering, design approvals, development, integration testing, user acceptance testing, production readiness, deployment, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Maintain clear and accurate project documentation, including project plans, decision logs, risk and issue registers, technical dependencies, status reports, and executive updates.
• Support and mentor technical team members while establishing accountability for deliverables, quality, and timelines.
• Contribute to delivery standards, reusable project methods, estimation models, and implementation best practices across Pearl engagements.

Qualifications

• At least five years of hands-on IAM/IGA engineering, implementation, or architecture experience.
• Strong implementation experience with Saviynt, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, SailPoint IdentityIQ, or a comparable enterprise IGA platform. Experience across both Saviynt and SailPoint is highly preferred.
• At least two years of experience leading technical projects or workstreams as a Technical Project Manager, Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, Solution Architect, or similar role.
• A strong understanding of identity lifecycle management, including joiner/mover/leaver processes, access requests, approvals, provisioning, deprovisioning, access certifications, and application onboarding.
• Working knowledge of identity repositories, authoritative sources, entitlement models, role-based access control, role mining, segregation of duties, and identity data reconciliation.
• Experience working with enterprise integrations and technologies such as REST APIs, SCIM, SQL, Active Directory, LDAP, HR systems, cloud applications, and connector frameworks.
• The technical judgment to evaluate proposed solutions, ask detailed questions, identify weak assumptions, and recognize implementation risks.
• Demonstrated experience managing project plans, estimates, resources, dependencies, budgets, risks, issues, and scope changes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to executives and discuss implementation details with engineers.
• Confidence working directly with clients in consulting, professional services, or another external delivery environment.
• Experience with delivery and planning tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience as an IAM/IGA engineer, architect, or technical implementation lead.
• Experience leading multiple IAM/IGA workstreams or concurrent client engagements.
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements such as SOX, audit controls, least privilege, and access governance.
• Experience estimating IAM/IGA implementation efforts and supporting statements of work, project scoping, or change-order development.
• Saviynt or SailPoint certifications.
• PMP, CSM, SAFe, or another relevant project or delivery certification.