Identity & Access Management Technologies and Services Line Manager

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Identity & Access Management Technologies and Services Line Manager - Your future role?

As the Identity & Access Management Technologies and Services Line Manager in Argenteuil or Ashford, you will focus on below activities:

• The Service Owner responsible for all Identity & Access Management (IAM) services, ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient access to information assets across the enterprise.
• Drive the evolution of IAM capabilities from legacy solutions toward a modern, integrated, and highly automated IAM platform, enabling secure, user-centric and scalable access aligned with business and digital evolution needs.
• IAM technologies and services capabilities include: Identity, Governance and Administration (IGA), Access Management (AM), Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Your further responsibilities:

Service Ownership & Operations

• Accountable for the IAM technologies and services operations, ensuring adherence to Service level agreements and performance metrics.
• Oversee delivery and lifecycle management of IAM platform services, ensuring standardization, automation, and API-driven integration across the ecosystem.
• Maintain policy-driven governance for Identity, Access, and Privileged Access solutions, ensuring and automated control enforcement
• Lead service monitoring, incident management, continuous improvement, and compliance audits.
• Point of escalation for quality issues and resources use

Strategy & Transformation

• Execute a strategic roadmap to converge IAM capabilities (IGA, AM, PAM) into a unified and automated platform aligned with Zero Trust principles.
• Collaborate with architecture teams to align IAM with enterprise security and digital transformation projects.
• Partner with other technologies and services lines to share and align roadmaps and contribute to long term overall IT technologies and services evolution
• Evaluate latest technologies (including AI-driven) and recommend improvements to strengthen user experience and protection.

Roadmap Execution

• Define investments needed to deliver the roadmap
• Approve a product-oriented technology roadmap, balancing innovation, technical debt reduction, risk, automation, and business value delivery.
• Ensure project/product deliveries (eg : Participate to steerco, Periodic reviews)

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with IT, Security, HR, and Business teams to ensure IAM services meet our needs and security obligations.
• Communicate service performance, transformation progress, and risks to senior management.
• Manage strategic relationships with technology and service suppliers. It includes managing contractual agreements and being escalation point.

Risk & Compliance

• Establish access policies aligned with security and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure identity governance through automated certifications, policy-based controls, and monitoring.

Team Leadership

• Manage a team, to motivate and inspire them to achieve their goals
• Define and lead team structure evolution
• Develop technical experts and external partners providing IAM services.
• Promote an innovation and automation mindset, promoting adoption of modern IAM practices (Identity Fabric, Zero Trust, AI-driven capabilities)
• Ensure upskilling and development of the team
• Manage all HR processes (Goals setting, Performance review..)

You have:

• Master's Degree or equivalent in the field of Computer Science, information systems, business administration or related fields
• Minimum 8 years of experience in leadership position (IT manager, IT Security or Program with 20+ people)
• Minimum 5 years' experience being an international team player working across countries and at the global level
• Technical expertise and understanding of IAM domains - IGA, AM, PAM - and related platforms (MS EntraID/AD, CyberArk, Saviynt)
• Security Framework Knowledge: experience with Zero Trust implementation, least privilege, and modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, passwordless)
• Experience leading large-scale IAM transformation toward integrated and automated platforms
• Experience with implementation of information technology integrations in a large division/company
• Substantial exposure to data processing, hardware platforms, enterprise software applications, and outsourced systems
• Knowledge of ITIL process for operational execution.
  
  Operational service delivery management expertise
• Excellent project management skills

Our benefits:

• Bonus Payment
• Pension contribution
• Health insurance
• Givaudan shop discounts
• Career development

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