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Technical Architect, Auth0

Okta


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 224000 - 308000
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

Position Description:

Oktas 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 Oktas industry leading cloud identity platform at our customers. You will focus on Oktas 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 youll 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 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 Ruby Java Python or Perl
  • Proficiency in git and Subversion

Education and Certification

  • A Bachelors 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.

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco CA HQ office or Chicago IL office during the first week of employment.


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The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$224000 - $308000 USD

Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area) Colorado Illinois New York and Washington. Your actual OTE which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation will depend on factors such as your skills qualifications experience and work addition Okta offers equity (where applicable) 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: annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area) Colorado Illinois New York and Washington is between:

$200000 - $275000 USD

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills qualifications and addition Okta offers equity (where applicable) bonus and benefits including health dental and vision insurance RRSP with a match healthcare spending telemedicine 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: annual OTE (On Target Earning) range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:

$206300 - $256300 CAD

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