Senior Manager, Technical Architecture

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Hiring, growing, and retaining a team of Professional Service Technical Architects. Providing direct management, mentoring, and support to ensure their continued technical, professional, and career growth. Up-skilling team members to ensure they have the expertise to successfully deliver Okta to customers. Managing outlined objective and subjective performance metric requirements. Active sync with Partner, delivery enablement & address performance.
• Customer Engagement: Acting as the primary customer liaison, managing relationships and communication between the project team, the customer, and internal stakeholders. Ensuring customer success from the beginning to the end of the engagement life cycle. Managing project budgets to meet customer and Okta expectations.
• Operational Excellence: Assisting the Director with oversight and accountability for professional services billings, revenue, customer satisfaction, resources, and utilization. Demonstrating and improving a repeatable implementation methodology to rapidly enable customers. Perform Governance & audits of Technical Architecture design and deliverables quality.
• Drive team contribution to Technical Architecture Practice evolution and initiatives: Directly contribute to ongoing process improvement within the Technical Architecture practice and across Okta Professional Services and our subcontractor ecosystem. Oversight & manage of customer project dynamics, change management, concerns across multiple engagements and workstreams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in Identity & Access Management.
• 5+ years of experience leading teams.
• 5+ years of experience in Design, consulting, delivering solutions to external customers.
• Expertise in technologies and protocols like SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise web technologies and security.
• Ability to work independently and multi-functionally supporting the development of client work you're doing.
• Ability to Multi-task and manage multiple customer engagements is a requirement.
• Experience in Process Improvement, Decision-making, Managing Processes, Planning, Analyzing Information and Developing Standards.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline is required.
• Auth0 Certified OR Okta Certified Consultant will be a plus.
• CISSP certification is a plus.