Software Architect

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Title: Architect, Meta-Directory and LCM Groups

Company Description:

Okta is the leading independent provider of enterprise identity. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,950 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers

Position Description:

The Architect of Meta-Directory and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Engineering Groups will drive the technology vision for the Software Engineering organization responsible for building a platform that provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

The Meta-Directory and LCM Engineering Groups are responsible for highly impactful customer-oriented products and solutions. The products will be built with ease of use in mind and allow customers to solve hard problems including Delegated Auth, SSO, ETL, and Identity Management via SCIM. You have experience developing enterprise-grade software in an object-oriented language, experience or knowledge in security, authorization, or identity. You will bring out the best in each engineer, hire and develop talent, while ensuring the highest quality of software.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive the execution of the vision of Meta-Directory and LCM efforts by partnering closely with Product Management and senior Architects
• Work with product and engineering teams to scope and plan engineering efforts
• Identify/Define/Refine Engineering Design processes to streamline product delivery and ensure quality
• Facilitate project planning and execution of your teams, and across other teams to ensure prompt delivery
• Participate in role specific engineering rotations geared towards supporting the live operation of Okta’s SaaS
• Handle customer escalations directly and indirectly through Support
• Participate in architecture reviews and discussions
• Collaborate effectively with a matrixed organization of QA, Documentation, Product Management, and UX teams

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• 10 years or more or progressively increasing design and architecture responsibility roles in software engineering, with a strong background in software development
• Prior experience in identity, authentication, authorization, entitlements, or security
• Experience working in Agile software development organizations leveraging continuous integration and deployment practices
• Experience working on low latency, highly scalable, multi-tenant, mission critical systems and large scale (multi-continent) SaaS applications

Desirable knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Experience building large-scale enterprise software or SaaS products
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies (OIDC, SAML, XACML, SCIM, OAuth, Federation, etc.)
• Understanding of front-end and server-side technologies, and databases (Java, Spring, React, Node.js, GraphQL, MySQL, Graph DB, etc.)
• Understanding and appreciation for Microservices, Test Driven Development, continuous improvement of systems and address technical debt
• An engineer or technologist at heart
• Experience in RESTful API design

Education and training:

• B.S. Computer Science or related field (MS or MBA or PhD preferred)

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
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