Okta Architect: Identity Platform & Zero-Trust Lead

Wpp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP Enterprise Technology is seeking an expert OKTA architect to define the target identity architecture and integration patterns for a secure, scalable platform across WPP's enterprise estate.

You will set standards for SSO, MFA, lifecycle management and API access, ensure complex integrations, embed zero-trust principles, and guide product direction. This is a design authority role working with partner teams and internal engineers.

Qualifications

• Expert OKTA architecture and identity-platform design.
• Federation, SCIM, OAuth/OIDC and API access management.
• Zero-trust and identity-security architecture.
• Integration design across complex application estates.
• Architecture documentation and design-authority experience.
• Recognised architecture experience in the domain at enterprise scale.
• Relevant architecture or platform certifications (TOGAF or vendor tracks).
• Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Designs for security, scale, resilience and total cost of ownership.
• Influences engineering and vendor teams without direct authority.
• Balances strategic ambition with pragmatic, deliverable decisions.
• Stays current with platform direction and emerging capability.

Responsibilities

• Design the OKTA architecture, tenancy model and integration patterns.
• Set standards for SSO, MFA, lifecycle and API access management.
• Assure complex integrations and partner-delivered designs.
• Embed zero-trust and security-by-design into the identity platform.
• Advise the product owner on platform direction and roadmap.
• Set the architecture, patterns and guardrails that Kyndryl implements and operates within.
• Assure that partner-delivered designs meet security, resilience and standards.
• Act as design authority and approval gate for partner architecture decisions.

Skills

OKTA architecture

Identity-platform design

Federation

SCIM

OAuth/OIDC

API access mgmt

Zero-trust

Identity security

Integration design

Architecture docs

Education

TOGAF certification

Architecture degree

Job description

WPP Enterprise Technology is seeking an expert OKTA architect to define the target identity architecture and integration patterns for a secure, scalable platform across WPP's enterprise estate.

You will set standards for SSO, MFA, lifecycle management and API access, ensure complex integrations, embed zero-trust principles, and guide product direction. This is a design authority role working with partner teams and internal engineers.