Business Consultant

Okta; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Business Analyst within its Professional Services to bridge customer objectives with IAM technical implementations. You’ll own the requirements lifecycle, ensure security, scalability, and alignment with strategic needs, and collaborate with architects and consultants.

This role emphasizes discovery, documentation, traceability, and transition support, with a strong focus on delivering secure and scalable IAM solutions for clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, analysis and enterprise project delivery.
• Willingness to learn IAM concepts and best practices.
• Ability to translate technical specs for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to uncover requirements and map IAM processes.
• Translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements; create process flows and design diagrams.
• Maintain requirements traceability to ensure alignment with business goals and outcomes.
• Partner with architects to translate requirements into technical specs and provide oversight during build.
• Support change management, training, and go-live activities with a structured hand-off to the customer.

Skills

Consulting experience

IAM concepts

Analytical rigor

Communication

Organizational discipline

Documentation standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / Information Systems / Business Administration

Tools

Okta WIC/CIC

Auth0 platform

CBAP certification

Job description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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.

The Customer First Team

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 Summary

The 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.

Extra Credit

• 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 annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:: $89,000 USD - $133,000 USD

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