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Technical Architect, Okta

Technical Architect, Okta

OktaWashington, DC, United States
8 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Position Description : The Services Architect is a technical authority on both cloud and on-premises based IT systems and is responsible for ensuring the successful design and implementation of Okta’s industry leading cloud identity platform for our customers. You will focus on Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud offering targeted at customer identity use cases. You will develop relationships with customers to help them achieve their business goals while promoting creative solutions. You will establish yourself as a trusted partner with your customers with a focus on their success. You will translate business needs and insights into an actionable strategy and assist customers in driving their initiatives to results and high business value. This is a key member of the Professional Services (PS) team, working as part of a PS Delivery Team on each customer implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Review and lead the gathering of business, functional and technical requirements for establishing an Identity platform powered by Okta for our customers.
  • Work with customers to document the common technical and functional requirements for specific solutions.
  • Support creation of project plans to develop and implement the proposed solution.
  • Participate as a member of the professional services delivery team to translate requirements to designs and to provide technical leadership and oversight.
  • Assist in periodic customer health-checks and project reviews.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities

  • 8+ years of overall IT / software development experience, solution design and technical architecture experience
  • 3+ years of consulting experience
  • 3+ years driving application architecture design
  • 3+ years of experience with IAM architectures
  • 3+ years of experience with implementing cloud computing solutions such as AWS, Google Apps, Salesforce etc.
  • Experience with customer identity use cases for B2C and B2B : user registration, multifactor authentication, SSO, delegated administration, social identities
  • Demonstrated ability to work and interact with CxOs and high-level customer executives
  • Experience in leading discovery workshops to derive customer requirements, specifications, business processes
  • Experience in developing functional specifications and system design specifications for customer engagements
  • Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design and Operations, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, RBAC, OAuth, OIDC, web protocols XML, SOAP, JSON, REST
  • Proficiency in one or more of Java, .Net, JavaScript, Angular, React
  • Familiarity with IAM solution providers is strongly desired
  • Experience integrating with a multitude of On-Prem and SaaS based products
  • Ability to travel up to 50%

    • Highly desirable knowledge, skills, and abilities

  • Okta Expertise, Experience, Certifications
  • Knowledge of software development security and cryptography
  • Experience with API Gateways, CASB, Reverse Proxies (NGINX)
  • Knowledge of cloud / virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere, EC2, Xen, KVM, OpenStack
  • Proficiency with various open-source software and development tools
  • Proficiency in one or more of .Net, Ruby, Java, Python or Perl
  • Proficiency in git and Subversion

    • Education and certification

  • A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline required.
  • Okta Certified Technical Architect or a combination of Okta Certified Consultant and Okta Certified Developer will be a plus.
  • TOGAF and / or CISSP certification is a plus.

    • Compensation and benefits

  • Annual On Target Earnings (OTE) range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington : $184,000—$276,000 USD. Actual OTE depends on skills, qualifications, experience and location. Okta offers equity (where applicable) and benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, and paid leave (PTO and parental leave) per policy. See Total Rewards for details : https : / / rewards.okta.com / us

    • What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee

  • Amazing Benefits
  • Making Social Impact
  • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

    • Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment with tools, technology and benefits to empower employees to work productively in a setting that suits their needs. Roles may require travel for in-person onboarding. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, disability, or veteran status. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please request using this form. For privacy policy, visit https : / / www.okta.com / privacy-policy / .

    Seniority level

  • Not Applicable

    • Employment type

  • Full-time

    • Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries : Computer and Network Security, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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