The integration for this is already built (for Okta at least). Most organizations already have these attributes in their identity provider. It would be great if we could push them directly without users having to manually add them.
Hi @basana, welcome to the Asana Community forum 
Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback 
While information on roles and departments is not automatically carried over to user profiles at this time, hopefully this is a change we can see in the future. I’ll keep you posted and let you know of any updates as they come