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Atmane El BouachriAE

Atmane El Bouachri

Cybersecurity Project Director

€1,000/day
Versailles, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Atmane

Senior Cybersecurity Product Manager and Project Manager, with over 20 years of IT experience, including 7 years specializing in Cyber, GRC, and regulatory compliance program management within large financial groups. Proven experience in defining and managing product strategies (roadmap, backlog, OKR, internal go-to-market), managing the lifecycle of cyber solutions, and leading change with technical and business stakeholders. Ability to liaise daily with IT, SOC, architecture, and compliance experts.
  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Versailles (up to 50km)

Experience

  • BNP Paribas Asset Management
    Stream Leader / Senior Project Manager
    May 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
    CSP / Cyber Defense & CISO Control Tower. Managed the delivery of security initiatives (Cloud, IAM, Crypto, application security) supporting the CISO, with trajectory control and operational governance. Interface between technical teams (IT Infra, Architecture, Dev) and transverse functions (Compliance, Legal, Data Office).
    • Scoped initiatives and translated Information Security requirements into action plans aligned with BNPP Group requirements (risk-based approach).
    • Managed execution: schedules, resources, dependencies, trade-offs (ComOp/SteerCo).
    • Controlled via KPI/KRI, budget monitoring, alerting, and escalation.
    • Collected and centralized evidence – audit readiness.
    • Monitored DORA deployment within BNP Paribas AM subsidiaries.
    • Performed Information Security governance actions: organized security committees, updated policies, awareness campaigns.
    Digital Transformation Cybersecurity
  • Société Générale
    Project Director
    May 2023 - May 2024 (1 year)
    Directed the "Process" stream of the IT Service Management unification program (UNITY tool). Managed ITIL, large-scale change management, internal go-to-market, and measured the business impact of the delivered product.
    • Structured governance (SteerCo, strategic committees), secured decisions and inter-IT arbitration.
    • Defined the roadmap, workload plan, and detailed schedule; coordinated international teams.
    • Implemented PMO management: RACI, RAID, KPI/KRI, executive reporting.
    • Internal go-to-market strategy: adoption plan, communication, launch events for IT and business teams.
    • Measured business impact: tracked operational gains, realized savings, and Process Owner satisfaction.
    • Managed quality: UAT & E2E, go/no-go criteria, validation with Process Owners and key users.
    • Onboarded Process Officers/Owners and supported adoption.
  • BNP Paribas
    Cybersecurity Project Manager
    January 2021 - May 2023 (2 years and 4 months)
    Managed several projects in the SecOps portfolio and led the organizational transformation from BP2i to ITG-P. Defined and implemented the Target Operating Model (TOM) ProdSec, building an internal security services offering.
    • Deployed Tanium THR/Comply on 40,000 assets; migrated IBM TSCM to Tanium.
    • Secrets management: HashiCorp Vault on IT Cloud (continuity and criticality increase).
    • PKI & certificates: built and validated PKIaaS; roadmap and deployment.
    • PAM: secured SSH key lifecycle; addressed IAM/CyberArk pain points.
    • Vulnerabilities & patching: improved KPIs, self-patching via Ansible (NIST standard).
    • Deployed vulnerability management tools via ServiceNow (Qualys, BigFix, Fortify, Sonatype, Tanium, Sysdig + pentests).
    • Implemented the target ProdSec TOM: built security services offering, catalog, chargeback model, governance.
    • Managed Risk Letters: tracked action plans, managed risks (KPI/KRI, RAID).

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Education

  • Program Design Thinking and Creativity for Business
    INSEAD Executive Education
    2021
    Program Design Thinking and Creativity for Business
  • Master Modeling and Instrumentation
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
    2002
    Master Modélisation et Instrumentation

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