Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia · Remote · SE Field-321

This role is for a Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta, focusing on securing AI and identity. The role involves partnering with sales teams, demonstrating Okta's technology value, acting as a technical advisor and advocate for customers, executing Proofs of Concept (POCs), and building technical relationships. It requires strong communication and analytical skills, with a passion for technology and fast-paced environments. While the company is focused on AI, the role itself is customer-facing and sales-support oriented, not directly building AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with the regional sales team to develop strategic and technical account and territory plans
  2. Support our customers along their sales journey by showing them the value of the Okta technology through live demonstrations and sales presentations.
  3. Serving as the key technical advisor for our customers, leading the technical solutioning phase for our customers, partnering with the sales team and our partners. Acting as the Technical Advocate for our customers, with Internal Okta teams.
  4. Execute well-defined, outcome-focussed POCs
  5. Build and manage technical relationships with Okta Customers, Technology Partners and Delivery Partners.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum of 1-2 years experience in a pre-sales consulting role, or customer facing consulting role.
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal, and an ability to quickly communicate complex ideas around a technical topic, using various means, including in front of a whiteboard.
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the customer's organisation, including CxO, security, developers, and IT administrators.
  • Ability to be organised and analytical, and eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches
  • A passion to be in the forefront of technology, learning a diverse set of technologies that Okta integrates with and helping solve real world Identity challenges
  • Enjoy being in a fast paced environment, operating at the speed of cloud, to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud, rapid adoption of technology and design their Zero Trust security strategy with Identity as the foundation.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on, Security and API-based solutions
  • Experience with at least one standard network security protocol (eg. OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP)
  • Proficient in either IT Security, Identity and Access Management or Developer domains
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field
  • Hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: web development (JavaScript, HTML, frontend frameworks), mobile development (iOS, Android), backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications
  • Software developer experience

What the JD emphasized

  • secure Every Identity
  • identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI
  • Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure
  • safely embrace this new era
  • relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes
  • builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence
  • career-defining work
  • all in on this mission