Identity and Tooling Manager

<h3>🧡 <strong>About Alma</strong></h3> <p>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!</p> <p> </p> <h3>👐 <strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>You will report to Barbara Goubert and manage a team of 2 people.</p> <p><em>This position is a CDI based in Paris, with 3 days per week in the office.</em></p> <p> </p> <h2>💼 <strong>About the job</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Define and implement Alma’s identity and access management strategy.</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Own the identity lifecycle and access processes.</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Build and operate tooling governance.</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Drive security, compliance and operational excellence.</strong> 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.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h2>🧰 <strong>You will work with</strong></h2> <p>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</p> <p> </p> <h2>🧩 <strong>About you</strong></h2> <p><strong>To succeed in this job</strong></p> <ul> <li>Significant experience in Identity and Access Management, RBAC, SSO, access governance or SaaS administration.</li> <li>Strong understanding of access lifecycle management, including joiner, mover and leaver processes.</li> <li>Ability to design pragmatic processes that balance security, compliance and employee exp