Senior Solutions Architect
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Senior Solutions Architect at Okta is a forward deployed identity & security role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Solutions / Sales Engineering role centers on technical discovery, demos, POCs, and helping buyers build internal consensus. Key signals from the listing: AWS, Python, Senior scope.
About Okta
Okta deploys identity for workforce and customer use cases with complex enterprise integration requirements. The role is anchored in Utah, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Senior Solutions Architect
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Senior Solutions Architect to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Okta hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Bring a tight demo narrative: customer pain, live workflow, and measurable before/after — treat the interview like a compressed POC.
- Show how you qualify opportunities and say no to bad-fit pilots; Okta values technical judgment in customer-facing roles.
- The posting mentions multiple languages — pick the one most relevant to this team and show production code, not tutorial exercises.
- This role is tied to Utah — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Okta
- Demonstrate SSO/SAML/OIDC literacy with a concrete example — Okta will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate integration debugging with a concrete example — Okta will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Identity is detail-heavy — show you have untangled messy IdP/HRIS/app integration graphs before.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on okta.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Position Description:
Okta's Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. The Services Architect - CIAM is a technical authority on both cloud and on-premises based IT systems and is responsible for ensuring the successful design and implementation of Okta’s industry leading cloud identity platform at our customers. You will focus on Okta’s CIAM offering targeted at customer identity use cases. 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 and assist customers in driving their initiatives to results and high business value. This is a key member of the Professional Services (PS) team, working as part of a PS Delivery Team on each customer implementation. This role is for the Customer Identity Cloud product unit and you’ll be supporting CIC customers.
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, multi factor 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. #LI-Remote #P-1458_3423067
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