Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cepheid, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Qualify for a role that blends strategy, technology, and leadership to shape the future of identity and access management across human, machine, and privileged identities.

In This Role, You Will Have The Opportunity To

• IAM Strategy & Visionary Roadmap: Develop the overarching IAM charter, strategy, and investment roadmaps, transforming the team into a proactive business‑enablement partner that aligns identity controls with business value.
• Identity Portfolio Optimization & Rationalization: Orchestrate the modernization and continuous rationalization of the identity technology portfolio, evaluating and improving capability zones across Human Identities, Machine/Non‑Human Identities, Shared Accounts, and Privileged Access Management (PAM).
• Cross‑Domain Orchestration & Business Enablement: Partner proactively with cross‑functional platform teams, DevOps, cybersecurity, HR, and compliance to design scalable, decentralized identity patterns that integrate directly into continuous deployment pipelines.
• Cross‑Operating Company Innovation & Influence: Partner with stakeholders across Operating company boundaries to shape technology demand and actively drive modern identity standards and best practices at the broader Danaher level.
• AI‑Assisted Orchestration & Guardrails: Assess emerging AI trends to safely integrate agentic automation into workflows, shifting routine execution to autonomous systems while maintaining critical human technical oversight and ethical decision boundaries.
• Identity Architecture Design & System Resilience Engineering: Shape technology demand, evaluate build‑versus‑buy infrastructure decisions, and proactively lead advanced resilience testing—including simulating identity system failures and directory outages (Chaos Engineering)—to safeguard a highly regulated, distributed ecosystem.

The Essential Requirements Of The Job Include

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience in enterprise, business, solution, platform, or security identity architecture.
• Strategic Acumen: Ability to balance the long‑term architectural design with short‑term operational baselines and organizational goals.
• Influence & Communication: Ability to influence without authority and communicate complex technical trade‑offs effectively with executive, business, and cross‑functional technical stakeholders.
• Emerging Technology Proficiency: Understanding of existing, new, and emerging identity paradigms, such as generative AI applications, automated agent orchestration, and graph identity data modeling.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements

• Ability to travel 10% of the time globally

Preferred Experience

• Regulated & Distributed Environments: Designing secure systems with privacy and compliance in mind within heavily regulated environments (such as life sciences, FDA, or biotechnology spaces).
• Modern Protocol & Tools Proficiency: Hands‑on familiarity with deep identity protocol integration logic (OIDC, SAML, OAuth, SCIM).

The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $230,000. This range may be modified in the future. This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The U.S. EEO posters are available here.

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