Technical Architect, Okta

• 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
• 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, multi factor authentication, SSO, delegated administration, social identities
• Demonstrated ability to work and interact with CxOs and high-level customer executives
• Experience in leading discovery workshop 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
• Exhibits confidence and a deep understanding of emerging industry practices when solving business problems
• Identifies critical issues with ease
• Effectively communicates technical information to non-technical audiences
• Manages customer expectations effectively
• Application Architecture Background
• Architected distributed systems
• Application Design experience
• Software Development
• Consultative to lead a customer and drive business questions
• Clear and Dynamic Communication
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Desirable

• Okta's Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers
• We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for more than 100 million daily logins around the world
• Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation
• The Services Architect - CIAM 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 at our customers
• You will focus on Okta’s CIAM 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
• 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