# Technical Architect

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Texas; Washington, DC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000-$275,000 USD per year
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Technical Architect to join our Professional Services team. As a Technical Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing Okta's cloud identity platform for our customers. You will work closely with customers to understand their business needs and develop creative solutions to help them achieve their goals.

Key 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 common technical and functional requirements for specific solutions.

- Support creation of project plans to develop and implement proposed solutions.

- Participate as a member of the professional services delivery team to translate requirements to designs and provide technical leadership and oversight.

- Assist in periodic customer health-checks and project reviews.

Requirements:

- 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 Identity and Access Management (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.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: $200,000-$275,000 USD per year (OTE).

- Equity (where applicable).

- Health, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k).

- Flexible spending account.

- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

Education and Certification:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Cloud Computing
- Security Architecture
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- SAML
- SSO
- RBAC
- OAuth
- OIDC
- XML
- SOAP
- JSON
- REST
- Java
- .Net
- JavaScript
- Angular
- React

### Nice to have
- Okta Expertise
- Experience with API Gateways
- CASB
- Reverse Proxies (NGINX)
- Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies
- 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

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