Staff Data Analyst

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Data & Insights Team

Okta's Enterprise Data & Insights team empowers data-driven decision making across the company by delivering trusted analytics, insights, and tools. We partner closely with teams such as Sales, Finance, Product, and Customer Success to unlock business value through data strategy, scalable solutions, and impactful storytelling.

The Staff Data Analyst Opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Data Analyst who has a passion for driving decisions and insights through data to join the Enterprise Data & Insights team. You will be successful if you are detail-oriented, analytical, like solving big problems, connecting dots, understanding business challenges and determining options to solve using data, and can effectively communicate with team members and business partners. In this role, you will be key in creating the foundation for data-based decision-making across Okta's functional business teams and will work with internal customers to identify ways to effectively leverage data using cutting edge cloud and big data technologies to drive business insights.

What you'll be doing

• Serve as the subject matter expert on Customer Identity Cloud data models, metrics, and customer value.
• Drive measurement strategy for product usage across Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds.
• Define requirements for the semantic layer to support advanced analytics and dashboarding.
• Lead analytics initiatives focused on growth, retention, and predictive modeling (e.g., cross-sell, risk signals).
• Partner with stakeholders to gather business requirements, identify trends, and uncover insights.
• Collaborate with engineering to define, test, and improve data pipelines, sources, and transformations.
• Build and QA reports, dashboards, and prototypes while supporting ad hoc analysis and issue resolution.
• Champion best practices in data modeling, storytelling, and process improvement across analytics workflows.

What you'll bring to the role

• 7+ years experience as a Data Analyst/Data Engineer/BI Developer
• Advanced SQL experience
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to work with all levels of the organization
• Experience with building reports and visualizations to represent data intuitively in Tableau or similar data visualization tools
• Advanced analytics, data science, AI/ML experience and techniques are a plus
• Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate with technical and non-technical teams
• Experience with ETL processes, software development, and lifecycle awareness, using Python, Java, and Snowflake
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• BS in Computer Science, MIS, or a related technical field - or equivalent relevant related experience

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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