Okta Architect

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Lead Okta Architect who is excited to learn the Okta platform and our technology. You will lead multiple concurrent customer deployment projects with our goal to ensure long-term customer satisfaction and success.

Duties and responsibilities:

• At least 4 to 5 years of Okta Technical Architect experience.
• MUST be certified in “ Okta Consultant”
• Gather, analyze, and document post-sales requirements.
• Communicate to customers and partners at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation.
• Act as a liaison between Customers and Product Management.
• Lead interaction and collaboration with other Okta teams such as Engineering and Support as needed to address escalated issues.
• Interact with management and other roles within the customer organization and Okta.
• Perform hands on technical design, configuration, and troubleshooting of the Okta service.
• Ensure quality and time management processes are followed by team (e.g., change controls, time tracking).

Qualifications:

• Experience as a technical consultant delivering solutions to customers
• MUST be certified in “ Okta Consultant”
• Experience in designing and implementing security and identity management solutions to support critical systems and business programs.
• Experience with technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Some knowledge of enterprise web technologies, security and cutting-edge infrastructures.
• Ability to work independently.
• General knowledge of cloud architectures as well as complex enterprise on-premise IT landscapes.
• Knowledge of typical enterprise identity life cycle management processes and standards.
• AD and LDAP experience is preferred.
• Able and willing to be a hands-on contributor.
• Software development experience strongly preferred (Java, Ruby, Python, REST/JSON, etc).
• Preferred experience with JavaScript and one of the major JavaScript MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React, etc).

Education

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline required.