# Associate Director, Identity & Access Management Architect at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

- Company: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: Security
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $177K–239K
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Skills: cloud, identity governance, privileged access management, authentication, directory services
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alnylampharmaceuticals/jobs/4449936009

## Description

Overview:
 Alnylam is seeking an Associate Director, Identity & Access Management Architect to lead the architecture, engineering, and delivery of identity services across the enterprise. The role brings together identity governance and admiration (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), authentication, directory services, cloud identity, and non-human identities to support secure access for our people, applications, and technology.
 Reporting to the Senior Director, Head of Identity and Access Management, this leader will own IAM architecture and engineering and provide technical ownership of IGA, PAM, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity. The role combines strategic direction with hands-on technical execution, working with engineering. infrastructure and business teams to design, modernize, troubleshoot, and operate resilient identity capabilities.
 This is a hybrid role primarily based in Cambridge, MA, with up to 25% local and international travel.
 Key Responsibilities:
• Define and own the enterprise IAM target architecture, technical standards, integration patterns, roadmap across IGA, PAM, access management, directory services, cloud, and non-human identity. 
• Lead identity solution design and engineering execution from architecture review and proof of concept through implementation, testing, operational handoff, and ongoing improvement. 
• Own the technical direction of Active Directory, Entra ID, and hybrid identity, including tenant and directory architecture, synchronization, authentication, groups, privileged administration, and service 

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