Technical Architect
Job Duties and 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.
- Aid in periodic customer health-checks and project reviews.
Minimum REQUIRED 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.
- 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%.
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.
Pay, Benefits, and Schedule
The annual OTE (On Target Earning) range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $224,000 USD - $308,000 USD.
The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington is between: $200,000 USD - $275,000 USD.
The annual OTE (On Target Earning) range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $206,300 CAD - $256,300 CAD.
The annual salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $200,000 USD - $275,000 USD.
The annual salary range for candidates located in Canada is between: $206,300 CAD - $256,300 CAD.
Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
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