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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.

The Services PreSales Architect Opportunity

Reporting to the Director, Services PreSales Architecture, this role will is a technical authority on both cloud and on-premises based IAM systems and is responsible for ensuring the successful design and implementation of Okta’s industry leading cloud identity platform for our customers. You will focus on Okta’s workforce and customer identity offerings.  You will develop relationships with customers to help them achieve their business goals while promoting creative solutions.  You will establish yourself as a trusted partner with your customers with a focus on their success.  You will translate business needs and insights into an actionable strategy that the delivery team can use to assist customers in driving their initiatives to results and high business value. This is a key member of the Professional Services (PS) Go-to-Market (GTM) team.

What you’ll be doing 

• Lead the pre-sales discovery of business, functional and technical requirements required to establish an Identity platform powered by Okta for our customers. 
• Work with customers and services sales team to document and mitigate technical risk identified during discovery.
• Support creation of services estimates to implement the proposed solution.
• Review services estimates to ensure project scope can be successfully delivered as outlined - technical risk is appropriately mitigated and timelines follow staffing guidelines.

Minimum REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 7+ years of overall IT / software development experience, solution design and technical architecture experience
• 3+ years of Okta implementation experience
• 5+ years of consulting experience
• 5+ years driving application architecture design
• 5+ years of experience with (IAM) architectures
• 5+ years implementing cloud computing solutions including AWS, Google Apps, Salesforce etc
• Experience with employee and customer identity use cases: HR driven identity, Active Directory, SSO, SaaS application integrations
• Experience with Identity Governance and Privileged Access Management use cases
• Demonstrated ability to work and interact with CxOs and high-level customer executives
• Led discovery workshops to derive customer requirements, specifications, business processes
• Developed functional specifications and system design specifications for customer engagements
• Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design and Operations, LDAP, Active Directory, SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC, OAuth, JSON, REST
• 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 design experience
• Clear and Dynamic Communication
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Highly Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of software development security and cryptography
• Familiarity with IAM solution providers
• Experience with API Gateways, CASB, and Reverse Proxies (NGINX)
• Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies, such as VMware vSphere, EC2, Xen, KVM, OpenStack
• Various open-source software and development tools
• Proficiency in one or more of .Net, Ruby, Java, Python or Perl
• git and Subversion

Certification

• Okta Certified Technical Architect or a combination of Okta Certified Consultant and Okta Certified Developer is a plus
• CISSP certification is a plus
• TOGAF certification is a plus

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.   

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$175,000—$263,000 USD The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $196,000—$294,000 USD

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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