# Senior Technical Architect, Okta

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Washington, DC, Fort Meade, MD
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Okta, Saml 2.0, OAuth, Openid Connect, Ws-Federation, Java, Ruby, .Net, PHP, Rest, JSON, JavaScript, Angular, React, Backbone
**Posted:** 2026-04-10

> Leads hands-on Okta platform implementations and deployments for customers, managing projects, providing technical consulting, and ensuring long-term success. Requires 5-7 years consulting experience, identity protocols expertise, and software development skills; onsite at federal sites with Top Secret Clearance.

## Job Description

## Duties and Responsibilities

- Work hands-on with Okta customers in post-sales role to provide innovative consulting services.
- Gather, analyze, and document post-sales requirements.
- Communicate with customers and partners at technical/functional levels.
- Provide excellent design and deployment solutions for customer satisfaction.
- Manage project scope, schedule, status, and documentation.
- Mentor and train customers on the service.
- Act as liaison between customers and Product Management to drive product development.
- Lead collaboration with Engineering and Support teams for escalated issues.
- Collaborate with sales on up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
- Perform hands-on technical design, configuration, and troubleshooting of Okta service.
- Shape Okta’s growth by designing new offerings.
- Manage multiple concurrent deployment projects.
- Apply knowledge of identity federation protocols (SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
- Apply knowledge of cloud architectures and enterprise on-premise IT.
- Apply software development experience (Java, Ruby, .Net, PHP, REST/JSON).
- Utilize knowledge of enterprise identity lifecycle management.
- Apply JavaScript and MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React).
- Mentor less experienced team members.
- Ensure quality and time management processes.

## Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- 5-7 years experience as technical consultant delivering solutions to external customers.
- Experience with identity federation protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, WS-Federation).
- Software development experience (Java, Ruby, .Net, PHP, REST/JSON).
- Knowledge of enterprise web technologies, security, infrastructures.
- Experience with JavaScript and major MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React).
- Ability to work independently and multi-functionally.
- Knowledge of enterprise identity lifecycle management.
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple engagements.
- Hands-on contributor.
- Superb communication, issue tracking, crisis management.
- Experience in process improvement, decision-making, planning.

## Nice to Have

- Experience designing/implementing security and identity management solutions.
- Experience delivering Okta implementations.
- Mobile development (iOS, Android).

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