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ADVENS

European cybersecurity firm delivering MDR services

Identity and Digital Trust Practice Manager

Security Engineering & ArchitectureConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeÎle-de-France, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, with recognized expertise in identity and access management.
  • Excellent understanding of identity governance, access security, privileged access management, and digital trust.
  • Strong command of IAM architectures and technologies, including IGA, SSO, MFA, identity federation, PAM, PKI, and CLM.
  • Understanding of Zero Trust models and their operational implementation in hybrid and cloud environments.
  • Knowledge of major market vendors and solutions.
  • Experience managing and developing offerings, including demonstrating the ability to shape a vision, grow an activity, and contribute to its financial performance; experience in a consulting firm, integrator, or software solutions reseller is desirable.
  • Recognized leadership and the ability to unite multidisciplinary teams and experts around a shared vision.
  • Ability to develop the skills of more generalist teams through training and support for consultants and experienced experts.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills in French and English.
  • Analytical mindset, results orientation, autonomy, and customer focus.

Responsibilities

  • Define the practice’s strategic vision, including market positioning, priorities, differentiation, and growth ambitions.
  • Structure and evolve the service portfolio covering identity governance (IGA), access management (AM), PAM, PKI, CLM, and Zero Trust support.
  • Identify development opportunities and create new value propositions, particularly for technical and non-human identities.
  • Define technology directions and help develop capabilities in collaboration with the Skills Centers.
  • Monitor identity-related threats, technological developments, standards, regulations such as NIS2 and eIDAS, and market trends.
  • Lead the practice’s commercial development and be accountable for revenue and margin growth.
  • Support sales and presales teams on strategic opportunities involving IAM, PAM, PKI, and Zero Trust.
  • Develop sales arguments, value propositions, and sales materials.
  • Participate in presentations, client meetings, and responses to complex requests for proposals.
  • Define pricing strategies, economic models, and service delivery models for the offerings.
  • Develop commercial synergies with other practices, particularly Compliance, Offensive Security, OT/IoT, and AI.
  • Serve as the technical and methodological reference for IAM, IGA, AM, PAM, PKI, CLM, and Zero Trust.
  • Support operational teams on complex or strategic assignments involving identities and trust infrastructures.
  • Contribute to reference architectures, methodologies, and implementation best practices.
  • Ensure the quality, consistency, and performance of delivered services in collaboration with Skills Center leads.
  • Help consulting and integration teams build skills in the practice’s technologies and methodologies.
  • Use client feedback and lessons learned to industrialize approaches and evolve offerings.
  • Represent Advens at events, conferences, and technology ecosystems as a recognized player in identity and digital trust.
  • Develop and manage strategic technology partnerships, and identify new partners and technologies that can strengthen the practice’s differentiation and commercial development.
  • Contribute to thought leadership through white papers, webinars, and major cybersecurity events.
  • Work closely with marketing to promote Advens’s identity and digital trust expertise.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with non-human identities, machine identities, or AI agents.

About the Company

ADVENS

European cybersecurity firm delivering MDR services

Advens provides comprehensive cybersecurity services in Europe using a Security-as-a-Service model that covers strategy, governance, auditing, integration, and ongoing managed support. Its flagship offering, mySOC, is a 24/7 Managed Detection and Response service built on an open XDR platform, complemented by a CERT, compliance advisory (GDPR and NIS2), and protection for cloud and OT environments. The company differentiates itself with a large European team of 600+ specialists and a strong social-impact mission through Advens for People and Planet, which funds education, inclusion, and sustainability projects and opens ownership to employees and impact investors. Its goal is to become a leading European cybersecurity provider by delivering practical, enterprise-grade protection while growing its geographic footprint and sustaining its social initiatives.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Lille, France
Founded
2000

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