Director, Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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The Director Identity and Access Management (IAM) is responsible for defining governing and evolving the enterprise-wide technology architecture to enable business strategy scalability security and regulatory compliance. Shifting from traditional tactical operations to proactive strategic oversight this role will architect a future-proof identity fabric across Human Identities Machine/Non-Human Identities Shared Accounts and Privileged Accounts.

The Director acts as a strategic advisor to business and IT leaders serves as an innovation catalyst driving change across corporate boundaries and leads a centralized governance function to improve Cepheids IAM maturity. This position reports to the I&O Leader and is part of the I&O group located in Sunnyvale / Santa Clara.

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 testingincluding simulating identity system failures and directory outages (Chaos Engineering)to safeguard a highly regulated distributed ecosystem.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Education: Bachelors 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

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• 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).

Cepheid a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at .

The annual salary range for this role is $200000 - $230000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

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