# SailPoint Roles API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/sailpoint-roles-api/  
**Provider:** SailPoint — https://apis.io/providers/sailpoint/  
**Documentation:**  https://developer.sailpoint.com/

SailPoint Roles API is one of 7 APIs that [SailPoint](https://apis.io/providers/sailpoint/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Roles. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.

Use this API to implement and customize role functionality. Roles represent the broadest level of access and group one or more access profiles. When you create a role and configure it with role criteria, Identity Security Cloud can automatically assign the role to qualified identities. Roles simplify access management for organizational positions.

## Machine-readable artifacts (11)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sailpoint/refs/heads/main/openapi/sailpoint-roles-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/v3/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sailpoint/refs/heads/main/json-schema/sailpoint-identity-schema.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sailpoint/refs/heads/main/json-ld/sailpoint-context.jsonld
- **SpectralRules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sailpoint/refs/heads/main/rules/sailpoint-rules.yml
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sailpoint/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/sailpoint-vocabulary.yml
- **Documentation** — https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/v2024/
- **Documentation** — https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/v2025/
- **Documentation** — https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/beta/
- **Documentation** — https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/iiq/
- **Documentation** — https://developer.sailpoint.com/docs/api/v2026/

## Other SailPoint APIs (6)

- [SailPoint](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/sailpoint/)
- [SailPoint Non-Employee Risk Management V1 API](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/nerm-v1-api/)
- [SailPoint Non-Employee Risk Management V2025 API](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/nerm-v2025-api/)
- [SailPoint Access Profiles API](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/sailpoint-access-profiles-api/)
- [SailPoint Certifications API](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/sailpoint-certifications-api/)
- [SailPoint Identities API](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/sailpoint-identities-api/)

## Tags

Roles

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/sailpoint/sailpoint-roles-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/sailpoint/.