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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.

Okta is seeking an experienced Manager to lead a team of engineers in our Business Platforms Engineering function within the Business Technology organization. This team is responsible for delivery and execution of technology solutions on enterprise platforms with focus on engineering excellence and velocity.

As a Manager of Engineering, you will play a key role in the execution of our Enterprise Applications strategy that directly impacts internal business operations supporting Okta’s growing business by directing the overall development release, and maintenance of applications that enable business success.  You must be collaborative and able to build trusted partnerships with extended teams. A successful candidate will have the ability to balance priorities and collaborate with cross functional teams while delivering within an agile delivery framework and supervising key performance indicators.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, mentor, and retain extraordinary talent.
• Effectively manage team performance and share constructive feedback on a regular basis.
• Lead a team of software engineers to deliver technology solutions that enable the business.
• Supervise the delivery of high quality, well written code that is quickly understood and easily supported and maintained by others.
• Perform engineering design evaluations and ensure the completion of projects within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.
• Prioritize resource allocation across projects and KTLO.
• Champion Agile methods and practices and help maintain a healthy scrum backlog.
• Participate in core team meetings to discuss status, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Manage objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and risk.
• Cultivate highly effective relationships with internal business partners.
• Evaluate and enhance the existing engineering processes and tool gaps.
• Work with Product Owners and Project Managers with roadmap and sprint planning activities. 
• Play the role of Delivery Lead on medium to large size of projects for end to end completion of the project.

Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or other technical degree.
• 2+ years of experience in managing a team of software engineers.
• A strong background in IT application development.
• Experience developing solutions leveraging SaaS/PaaS platforms like Salesforce, Workday, Netsuite, Anaplan, Xactly and Boomi.
• Deep understanding of integration and API concepts, patterns, and technologies.
• Experience leading teams in an Agile software delivery environment
• Experience coaching and developing engineers to meet career objectives
• Solid grasp of modern software engineering principles and frameworks.
• Understanding of business value streams and processes - campaign to opportunity, opportunity to order, order to cash, issue to resolution, recruit to retire, procure to pay, plan to report.
• Excellent communication skills and executive presentation abilities

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.         
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

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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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