Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Data & Insights Team

Our focus is on building platforms, capabilities, and insights that are utilized across the organization by sales, marketing, engineering, finance, product, and operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong data background with the ability to tie data engineering and analytics initiatives to business impact. 

You will be part of a team that empowers the enterprise with trusted, timely, and actionable insights to drive business transformation and customer value.

What you’ll be doing 

• Lead and manage a team of data engineers and analysts, providing guidance, direction, and support in their day-to-day activities.
• Drive data governance initiatives by establishing data quality standards, ensuring data accuracy, and implementing data security measures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data infrastructure, systems, and tools are optimized to support efficient data collection, storage, and analysis.
• Design, monitor, and maintain reports, KPIs, and trends for internal data systems.
• Identify and resolve performance issues in data processing pipelines to ensure timely and efficient data delivery.
• Develop project plans, track progress, and communicate updates to ensure timely delivery of data engineering and analytics projects.
• Create and maintain documentation for data engineering and analytics processes, systems, and tools to ensure knowledge transfer and continuity.
• Foster a culture of data-driven decision making within the organization, promoting the use of analytics to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

What you’ll bring to the role

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or another quantitative field of study
• 5+ years in data engineering and/or business analytics 
• Experience scaling and managing teams
• Understanding of the process to build, develop and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics support that support key business decisions.
• Ability to design and build technical processes to address business issues.
• Expert in Relational Database design, implementation, queries, and reporting (DDL, SQL)
• 3+ years’ experience working with SQL and ETL tools such as Airflow, with relational and columnar MPP databases like Snowflake, Athena or Redshift
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, both technical and non-technical audience

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• Experience with the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure/platforms  (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and Data Lake development
• Experience with data quality and observability tools (Monte Carlo, Soda, dbt)
• Experience with data cataloging tools (data.world, Alation, Atlan)

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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