Manager, Engineering - Identity Threat Protection

This key role involves building and leading a team of talented, passionate backend Java software engineers responsible for developing mission-critical and innovative identity and security products, specifically focusing on platform features for authentication and authorisation. This is an exciting opportunity to grow a team and deliver essential identity and security capabilities on Okta Secure Identity Platform. What you’ll be doing At a high level, you’ll be managing your team’s goals, contributing to product strategy and helping to develop your employees. More specifically, you will -

Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.

Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product & technical) and roadmap for the team.

Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems. Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.

Participate in and enable key team processes to organize & deliver key projects with high business impact.

Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent.

Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.

Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge:

3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.

Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.

Demonstrated ability to build teams from ground-up, managing performance, mentoring and coaching teams

Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.

7-10 years of prior software development experience with Java or other backend technologies. While this role is a people management one, you’ll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.

Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation & release orchestration using gating feature flags & configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.

Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.

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