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.
We are a team of Identity and Access Management experts. We help customers, businesses, and organisations maximise their Okta IAM platform investment, providing rapid time-to-value in adoption and usage and promoting scalability and agility. Our team sits within the Customer First area - focused on ensuring the long term success of our customers. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
Role SummaryThe Business Analyst (BA) is an essential member of the Okta Professional Services team. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn Identity and Access Management (IAM) fundamentals from the ground up. You will serve as a bridge between customer business objectives and technical implementation, developing the skills to own the requirements lifecycle and ensuring final deliveries are secure, scalable, and aligned with strategic needs.
Key Responsibilities- Discovery & Requirements Facilitation: Facilitate stakeholder workshops to uncover requirements, map current-state IAM processes, and identify dependencies and pain points across IT, security, and application teams.
- Documentation & Solution Design: Translate business needs into detailed functional and non-functional requirements. Produce clear business process flows and solution design diagrams to visualize the "how" and "why" behind the technical configuration.
- Traceability & Solution Integrity: Support senior team members in maintaining the requirements traceability matrix to ensure alignment between business goals and technical outcomes.
- Lifecycle Partnership: Partner with technical architects and consultants to translate requirements into actionable technical specifications. Provide functional oversight during the build phase to clarify business needs, resolve variances, and advise QA on defining robust acceptance criteria.
- Transition & Hand-off: Partner with project leadership to execute change management plans, create user training documentation, and assist with go-live support during the hypercare period. Upon completion of the hypercare phase, facilitate a structured hand-off to the customer and account team for final project wrap-up and long-term support.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
- Experience: 3+ years in consulting, analysis and enterprise project /program delivery
- Domain Expertise: Demonstrated willingness and aptitude to learn IAM concepts, principles, and best practices.
- Analytical Rigor: Proven ability to evaluate system feasibility and provide data-backed recommendations on security posture, identity lifecycle efficiency, and long-term scalability.
- Communication Mastery: Excellent ability to synthesize complex technical specifications for non-technical stakeholders and influence diverse groups to achieve consensus.
- Organizational Discipline: Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to balance competing functional priorities across multiple client projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Documentation Standards: Proficiency in utilizing standard project documentation templates (e.g., BRD, solution design) to ensure consistency and compliance with team practices.
- A passion for technology and eager to develop specialized skills in Identity and Access Management.
- Education: A bachelor’s degree in IT, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related fields.
- Proficiency in Okta's WIC/CIC and Auth0 platforms, including features, functionality, and integration capabilities
- Relevant certifications such as Okta Certified Professional/Administrator/Consultant or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
- Familiarity with AI-driven documentation tools to accelerate scoping and requirements gathering.
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, 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: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
The Okta Experience
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Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in consulting, analysis, and enterprise project or program delivery
- Willingness and aptitude to learn Identity and Access Management concepts, principles, and best practices
- Ability to evaluate system feasibility and provide data-backed recommendations on security posture, identity lifecycle efficiency, and scalability
- Excellent communication skills, including synthesizing technical specifications for non-technical stakeholders and influencing diverse groups
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to balance competing priorities across multiple client projects
- Proficiency with standard project documentation templates, including business requirements documents and solution designs
- Passion for technology and interest in developing specialized IAM skills
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field
- Proficiency with Okta WIC/CIC and Auth0 platforms, including features, functionality, and integrations
- Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, or Certified Business Analysis Professional certification
- Familiarity with AI-driven documentation tools for scoping and requirements gathering
Okta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Okta and has not been reviewed or approved by Okta.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental-health support, and income protection, complemented by preventive care options and wellness resources. These elements indicate robust coverage for both routine needs and more complex situations.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and fertility and family‑building benefits. Caregiving resources and flexible arrangements help employees navigate family responsibilities.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, separate sick time, paid holidays, and a company Wellbeing Week provide multiple avenues for time away. This breadth supports rest, recovery, and work‑life balance.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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