Next Frontier Quantum Lead - Innovation and Data Office

EY; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

EY seeks a Next Frontier Quantum Lead to drive quantum safety initiatives, including PQC migrations and risk assessments, while coordinating across delivery, GTM, and alliance partners. The role emphasizes strategic leadership and enterprise cryptography with a focus on delivering measurable business value.

The position requires deep expertise in quantum safety, cryptography, and multi-stakeholder program management, with a strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in cybersecurity, cryptography, or quantum safety.
• 12–15+ years in enterprise cyber contexts with quantum safety.
• Experience leading multi-year transformation programs across TLS, PKI, and crypto systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for quantum-safe architectures across the enterprise.
• Drive PQC migration programs, quantum risk assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead safety engagements, manage cross-functional teams, ensure high-quality client outcomes.
• Shape GTM strategy for quantum safety offerings with global markets and alliance partners.
• Advise executives on quantum threats and crypto agility; communicate risk in business terms.
• Oversee pilots and deployments of quantum-resistant networks and secure channels.

Skills

Quantum safety

Strategic leadership

Client advisory

Cross-functional leadership

Enterprise crypto

Education

MS/PhD in Cybersecurity or Quantum Safety

Tools

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Braket

Job description

Job Summary

Position Summary: The Quantum Associate Director will work on Quantum Technology initiatives. This role requires background, knowledge, and practical experience with the usability and impact of quantum technologies. There will be 60-70% focus on quantum safety and 30% focus on quantum compute

Portfolio: Applied Innovation ES Growth Innovation

Sub Portfolio: Next Frontier

Role title: Next Frontier Quantum Lead

About the Next Frontier

Applied Innovation's Next Frontier focuses on emerging technologies, including Physical AI, Quantum Computing, and Next-Generation AI amongst others. This initiative translates advanced capabilities into measurable outcomes, helping clients and EY teams improve decision-making, strengthen resilience, and unlock new opportunities through technology-driven solutions.

About the Delivery Team

EY advances innovation in Quantum by enabling regional quantum labs and supporting business-driven initiatives. The focus is on practical quantum technologies and framework that deliver measurable, enterprise-value level benefits.

Next Frontiers Quantum team is led by Kartheek Solipuram, EY Global Innovation Quantum Leader, under the leadership of Dr. Rodrigo Madanes, EY Global Innovation Next Frontier Leader.

Position Summary

The Quantum Associate Director will work on Quantum Technology initiatives. This role requires background, knowledge, and practical experience with the usability and impact of quantum technologies. There will be 60-70% focus on quantum safety and 30% focus on quantum compute

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for the development and adoption of quantumsafe architectures, standards, and capabilities across the enterprise.
• Drive postquantum cryptography (PQC) migration programs, quantumrisk assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead complex quantum safety engagements, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure high-quality delivery of technical solutions and client outcomes.
• Shape and support go-to-market (GTM) strategy by working with Global Markets, sector teams, and alliance partners to commercialize quantum offerings.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and clients, articulating risks, architectures, and opportunities in quantum safety and advanced cryptography.
• Advise senior technical and business leaders on quantum threats, including Shors, Grovers, and Regevs algorithms and their impact on enterprise systems.
• Produce executive-ready documentation, architecture standards, and thought leadership in quantum safety.

Go-to-Market (GTM) Commercial Strategy

• Support development and execution of quantum safety GTM strategy, including commercialization of PQC, quantum resistant networking, and quantum cyber defense offerings.
• Partner with sector leaders and client-serving teams to shape solution approaches and drive adoption of quantum-safe architectures.

Program Engagement Management

Manage delivery of complex quantum safety transformations, coordinating engineering, architecture, and research teams.

• Lead a technical team of cyber and quantum developers, establishing engineering best practices, documentation standards, and architectural governance.
• Oversee quantum-risk assessment lifecycle, including threat modeling of Shor-, Grover-, and Regev-relevant scenarios.
• Direct enterprise-wide post quantum migration across PKI, CLM, KMS, TLS, and crypto services.
• Guide pilots and deployments of quantum-resistant network architectures and secure communication protocols.

Technical Leadership Architecture

• Lead design and implementation of quantum-safe strategy and architecture, including hybrid (classical + quantum) models and enterprise crypto modernization.
• Architect quantum-resistant networks, including secure routing, key exchange hardening, PQC-based secure channels, and crypto-agile communication layers.
• Provide technical leadership for quantum cyber defense initiatives-quantum-enabled attack modeling, countermeasure evaluation, and resilience testing.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate PQC algorithms (e.g., ML-KEM, ML-DSA, Classic McEliece, Falcon) into enterprise systems and products.
• Review and lead development of PoCs using quantum platforms to simulate attacks (e.g., Shor's factoring, Grover's search) and validate defensive architectures.
• Produce and review high-quality technical content, architecture blueprints, whitepapers, and executive level reporting.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

Technical Knowledge Expertise

• Deep knowledge of quantum information science, including Shor's algorithm (factoring), Grover's algorithm (quantum search), and Regev's algorithms (lattice based cryptography foundations).
• Expertise in quantum-safe cryptography, PQC standards, hybrid classical-quantum architectures, and crypto-agility patterns.
• Strong understanding of enterprise cryptography including PKI, KMS, certificate lifecycle management (CLM), TLS 1.3, secure routing, and related infrastructure.
• Proficiency in designing quantum resistant network architectures and evaluating communication security under quantum threat models.
• Familiarity with quantum cyber defense principles, including quantum-enabled attack modeling and mitigations.
• Hands-on understanding of quantum compute platforms and SDKs (Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, Braket) and ability to review or build circuits.
• Knowledge of advanced compute methods (optimization, simulation, probabilistic models) relevant to quantum computing.

Leadership Consulting Skills

• Proven ability to advise executives and influence decision-making in cybersecurity and emerging technology strategy.
• Strong consulting skills with experience in roadmap development, solution architecture, and client relationship management.
• Demonstrated capability to lead engineering teams and cross-sector programs with multiple stakeholders.
• Professional Skills

Education Experience

• MS or PhD in Cybersecurity, Quantum Safety, Computer Science, Cryptography, Mathematics, Physics, or related field with significant quantum safety experience (overall 12-15+ years)
• Hands-on experience implementing and securing enterprise cybersecurity and crypto systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and reviewing enterprise architectures, reference models, and distributed system designs.
• Experience leading multi-year enterprise cyber and transformation programs, including TLS modernization and PKI redesign.
• Experience with quantum compute platforms, circuit construction, and algorithm validation.