Okta Architect

RedMatter Solutions is seeking an experienced Okta Architect to provide technical architecture and strategic leadership for a large-scale federal Identity and Access Management environment. This position is primarily remote/telework; occasional onsite support may be required for meetings or other contractual activities.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available and resilient enterprise Okta architectures, including Okta GovCloud environments.
• Develop identity architecture patterns supporting authentication, authorization, federation, and identity lifecycle management.
• Design complex user attribute mappings and identity data flows.
• Architect Zero Trust access policies and authentication solutions.
• Design SIEM integrations and monitoring pipelines supporting anomaly detection and risk scoring.
• Develop architectural approaches for integrating Okta with enterprise directories, applications, and other identity platforms.
• Participate in product roadmap development, dependency mapping, migration planning, and modernization initiatives.
• Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams and support resolution of complex technical issues.
• Ensure solutions align with federal ICAM, HSPD-12, FISMA, and Zero Trust principles.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation and technical standards.
• Collaborate with engineers, security teams, product stakeholders, and customer leadership.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of IAM engineering and architecture experience.
• 5+ years of experience architecting Okta solutions in large organizations.
• Minimum 5 years of experience implementing or supporting IAM solutions within federal or public-sector environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing highly available and resilient Okta architectures.
• Experience designing complex user attribute mappings and Zero Trust access policies.
• Experience architecting SIEM integrations and monitoring pipelines.
• Experience supporting IAM product roadmaps, dependency mapping, and migration planning.
• Working knowledge of ICAM, HSPD-12, FISMA, and Zero Trust principles.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity governance, access controls, and auditability.
• Okta Certified Technical Architect or equivalent senior credential.
• Ability to meet federal suitability requirements associated with privileged IAM access.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting Okta GovCloud environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale federal IAM modernization initiatives.
• Experience integrating Okta with Active Directory, Entra ID, LDAP, SIEM, and enterprise applications.
• Experience with Agile delivery, CI/CD, automated testing, and Infrastructure as Code.