Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography Director

Booz Allen Hamilton; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography Director to establish and grow the PQC practice for commercial customers. You will define team direction, standards, and service offerings; educate executives and engineers on PQC best practices; and drive architecture decisions with product, IT, networking, and infrastructure teams.

You will lead, hire, and inspire PQC experts to perform security reviews, build cryptographic inventories, run PQC pilots, and migrate tools toward

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading technical teams across PQC, classical cryptography, or secure communications.
• 5+ years of infrastructure component management or design with hardware or software, including interoperability of cryptographic protocols.
• Experience presenting recommendations and roadmaps to executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing and testing interoperability of quantum resistant algorithms.
• Experience leading teams in the implementation of large-scale software or hardware deployments.
• Knowledge of quantum-safe technologies, timelines, and standards, including NIST publications.
• Knowledge of EU cyber regulations and PQC recommendations.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Establish and grow Booz Allen’s Commercial PQC practice.
• Define the PQC team’s direction, standards and requirements for services and solutions.
• Lead, hire, and inspire teams of PQC experts to perform security reviews and pilots.
• Migrate tools and technology to be quantum resistant.
• Lead the delivery of assessments of cryptographic environments and provide remediation plans.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Team management

Public speaking

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Number: R0238026

Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography Director

The Opportunity

Establish and grow Booz Allen’s Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) practice. Define the PQC team’s direction, standards and requirements for services, and solutions sold to Booz Allen Commercial customers. Enable businesses to understand risks and the overall security posture of their existing and new quantum cryptography constructs. Educate and influence client executive and engineering teams on PQC best practices. Work proactively with leaders across all levels to design, implement, and support solutions that ensure clients have a quantum-resistant and best practice approach across their enterprise. Work jointly with leaders across products, IT, networking, infrastructure, and other teams to ensure architectures, systems, and designs properly consider PQC best practices. Lead, hire, and inspire teams of PQC experts to perform security reviews, develop cryptographic inventories, develop and implement PQC pilots, and migrate tools and technology to be quantum resistant. Lead the delivery of assessments of cryptographic environments, and provide recommendation and remediation plans along with development, implementation, and support of operational models supporting solutions and services meeting client requirements.

You Have

• 8+ years of experience leading technical teams across PQC, classical cryptography, or secure communications
• 5+ years of experience with infrastructure component management or design with hardware or software, including interoperability of cryptographic protocols
• Experience presenting recommendations and roadmaps to executive stakeholders
• Experience developing and testing interoperability of quantum resistant algorithms
• Experience leading teams in the implementation of large-scale software or hardware deployments
• Knowledge of quantum-safe technologies, timelines, and standards, including NIST publications
• Knowledge of EU cyber regulations and PQC recommendations
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have

• Experience presenting at industry events focused on PQC
• Experience leading the transition of existing infrastructure to new cryptography protocols and standards
• Experience leading the transformation and implementation of an enterprise scale initiative at a Fortune 500 company
• Experience hiring and growing teams of technical talent
• Knowledge of post-quantum algorithms

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.