# Technical Architect
**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $200K-$308K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Java, JavaScript, Angular, React, .Net, Python, Ruby, Perl, AWS, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, Ldap, Active Directory, RBAC
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Technical authority responsible for designing and implementing Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud platform. Works with enterprise customers on IAM solutions, translating business requirements into technical designs and providing architecture leadership.
## Job Description
## Job Duties and 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 the common technical and functional requirements for specific solutions.
- Support creation of project plans to develop and implement the proposed solution.
- Participate as a member of the professional services delivery team to translate requirements to designs and to provide technical leadership and oversight.
- Assist in periodic customer health-checks and project reviews.

## Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- 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 (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 workshop 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.
- 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 Architecture Background
- Architected distributed systems
- Application Design experience
- Software Development
- Consultative to lead a customer and drive business questions
- Clear and Dynamic Communication
- Ability to travel up to 50%

## Highly Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Okta Expertise, Experience, Certifications
- Knowledge of software development security and cryptography.
- Experience with API Gateways, CASB, Reverse Proxies (NGINX)
- Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies, such as VMware vSphere, EC2, Xen, KVM, OpenStack
- 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

## Education and Certification
- A 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.
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