Identity and Tooling Manager

Alma; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Maternity/paternity leave

Remote work (2 weeks/year)

Job summary

Alma in Paris is seeking a Head of Identity & Tooling to define and implement the company's identity and access management strategy. You will design a scalable RBAC model, define ownership and approval workflows across critical tools, and oversee lifecycle processes for joiners, movers and leavers.

You will own tooling governance, establish standards for access requests and privileged access, and drive security, compliance and operational excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Identity and Access Management, RBAC, SSO, access governance or SaaS administration.
• Strong understanding of access lifecycle management, including joiner, mover and leaver processes.
• Ability to design pragmatic processes that balance security, compliance and employee experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence IT, Security, Engineering, People and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement Alma’s identity and access management strategy.
• Own the identity lifecycle and access processes.
• Build and operate tooling governance.
• Drive security, compliance and operational excellence.

Skills

Identity & Access Mgmt

RBAC

SSO

Governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Google Workspace

Slack

1Password

GitHub

Looker

Job description

About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers. Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt. As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we’ve empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers. With 400+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we’re just getting started!

About the team

The Identity & Tooling team is responsible for defining and operating the foundations that allow Alma employees to access the company’s systems securely and efficiently.

The team’s scope covers identity lifecycle management, role-based access control, access provisioning and deprovisioning, tooling governance, access reviews and the definition of clear ownership for business applications.

The team works closely with IT, Security, Engineering, People, Finance, Legal and business teams. Each business team remains responsible for defining the access needs of its employees, while the Identity & Tooling team provides the standards, processes, tools and governance framework.

You will report to Barbara Goubert and manage a team of 2 people.

This position is a CDI based in Paris, with 3 days per week in the office.

About the job

• Define and implement Alma’s identity and access management strategy. Design and roll out a scalable RBAC model across Alma’s systems and applications, while defining clear ownership, access rules and approval workflows for critical tools.
• Own the identity lifecycle and access processes. Improve joiner, mover and leaver processes, including provisioning, changes of access and offboarding, while ensuring that access is granted according to business need, least privilege and appropriate approval.
• Build and operate tooling governance. Create and maintain an inventory of applications, tools, owners, users and access levels, and establish standards for tool ownership, onboarding, access requests, privileged access and periodic access reviews.
• Drive security, compliance and operational excellence. Ensure that access requests are properly documented, approved and traceable, coordinate access reviews and remediation plans, and define dashboards and KPIs to monitor access quality, process efficiency and risk reduction.

You will work with

Google Workspace, Slack, 1Password, GitHub, Linear, Google Cloud Platform, Alma dashboards, Looker, Metabase, Datadog, Sentry, Cloudflare Zero Trust / Warp, SSO / Identity Provider, HRIS, internal access-request workflows

About you

To succeed in this job

• Significant experience in Identity and Access Management, RBAC, SSO, access governance or SaaS administration.
• Strong understanding of access lifecycle management, including joiner, mover and leaver processes.
• Ability to design pragmatic processes that balance security, compliance and employee experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence IT, Security, Engineering, People and business teams.

And it will be nice if you also

• Have experience in a fast-growing technology company, fintech or regulated environment.
• Have experience implementing or improving an Identity Provider, RBAC framework or access-governance platform.
• Have experience with privileged access management, access reviews and audit preparation.
• Are familiar with SaaS portfolio management, licence optimisation and vendor governance.

What’s in it for you

If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on:

• Improve the way every employee accesses Alma’s systems and tools, with company-wide impact and high visibility across the organisation.
• Own a strategic and hands‑on scope while working closely with IT, Security, Engineering, People and all business teams.
• Make a meaningful security impact by reducing excessive, orphaned, shared and outdated access while making work easier for employees.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary based on 12 months
• Profit-sharing and employee savings plan
• Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package
• Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities
• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks.
• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts)
• Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma
• Mental health: free access to MindDay platform
• Paid time off: 25 days/year (+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts)
• Access to our Learning & Development Platform
• 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer

Interview Process

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member to understand your path, motivation & present you the role.
• Video call with your future manager to deep dive the role, the team, your profile and answer all your questions.
• Case study presentation with 2 - 3 team members (ideally in house) to assess your practical knowledge.
• 1 or 2 additional interviews customized to the role’s level to further assess your skills and team fit.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.