Technical Program Manager – Okta Migration

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Workstate

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Enterprise • SaaS

Workstate is a company that provides Teams as a Service (TaaS) for software engineering, offering flexible, customizable software development teams to businesses and public sector projects. With over 25 years of experience, Workstate specializes in adapting team size and composition to meet changing project requirements, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional team recruitment and assembly. Workstate's TaaS model facilitates seamless integration, access to top technology talent, and cost-effective solutions that optimize project delivery on time and within budget. The company partners with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, higher education institutions, and non-profits, providing technology teams for all stages of the software development lifecycle.

📋 Description

• Lead the migration from a legacy Okta instance to the Compass Okta environment, including relationship, configuration, application, security, and operational transition workstreams • Develop and manage the end-to-end migration plan, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, communications, cutover planning, and stabilization activities • Coordinate detailed functional and technical plans across information security, infrastructure, application, product, technology operations, and business teams • Identify cross-functional interdependencies and establish prioritization to minimize disruption to daily operations • Track progress, drive accountability, resolve blockers, and ensure clear ownership across teams and workstreams • Evaluate technical and security risks related to Okta configuration, integrations, application access, user lifecycle management, policies, and operational readiness • Partner with security teams to ensure enterprise security controls, access policies, risk management expectations, and compliance needs are addressed throughout the migration • Collaborate with infrastructure and cross-functional groups to ensure the migrated Okta environment is scalable, efficient, supportable, and aligned to enterprise architecture standards • Manage communication with key stakeholders, including executive-level updates, team-level reporting, decision narratives, risk summaries, and issue escalation • Use data, metrics, and well-written narratives to create clarity, support decision-making, and communicate program health • Drive operational process improvements related to identity management, access administration, SaaS governance, support workflows, and technology operations • Build SOPs and reusable operating procedures to standardize and scale post-migration technology operations • Support full lifecycle program execution from kickoff through implementation, cutover, adoption, stabilization, and handoff • Ensure migration plans account for business continuity, user impact, application dependencies, security posture, and long-term operational support • Help Compass improve execution, efficiency, consistency, and governance across high-impact technical programs

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of Technical Program Management experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, managers, and stakeholder groups • Previous experience program managing Okta migrations, consolidations, or identity platform transitions • Technical understanding of Okta configuration, tenant migration planning, identity integrations, SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, groups, policies, applications, and access controls • Experience working with or alongside information security teams • Knowledge of enterprise security controls, identity and access management practices, risk management, and security governance • Ability to manage the full program lifecycle, including planning, discovery, dependency mapping, execution, cutover, stabilization, and operational handoff • Experience coordinating third-party SaaS implementations, platform migrations, or enterprise technology operations initiatives • Strong project planning, roadmap management, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, and delivery tracking skills • Ability to evaluate technical risk and drive prioritization decisions that minimize operational disruption • Strong executive communication skills, including written narratives, status reporting, metrics-driven updates, and decision support • Ability to influence stakeholders and leadership through clear, data-driven communication • Familiarity with modern software development practices and technologies, including containerization, microservices architecture, CI/CD, and cloud-based delivery models • Knowledge of AWS and modern cloud architecture concepts • Ability to create SOPs, standardize operational processes, and support continuous improvement across technology operations • Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills • Ability to move comfortably between technical details, security considerations, delivery execution, and high-level business impact • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience