Senior TS/SCI Crypto Modernization Engagement Lead

Acclaim Technical Services; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Acclaim Technical Services in Reston, VA, is seeking a Senior Engagement Lead, Cryptographic Modernization, for a national-security engagement in Northern Virginia. The role leads customer engagement, integrated delivery, and contract performance, with strong emphasis on cryptographic modernization and PQC.

You will work with the Senior PQC Architect, lead a multidisciplinary team, and interface with senior government stakeholders to translate findings into mission impact, plans, and funding.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 10+ years of Federal cybersecurity, technology, engineering, or mission-delivery experience.
• 5+ years leading complex technical engagements, programs, or major workstreams.
• Proven success as a senior customer-facing leader on high-visibility technical engagements.
• Strong program-management skills spanning scope, schedule, staffing, risk, quality, dependencies, and stakeholder management.
• Working knowledge of post-quantum cryptography migration, cryptographic discovery and inventory, CBOM concepts, crypto‑agility, NIST cybersecurity/cryptography frameworks, and Federal cyber governance.
• Ability to translate complex technical findings into mission impact, migration priorities, schedule, resource needs, funding implications, and executive decisions.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams and SMEs.
• Ability to work on-site in<span>location</span> at the required customer cadence.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary ATS senior point of contact for customer executives, mission owners, security leaders, engineering stakeholders, and program leadership.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships across the customer organization.
• Understand customer mission priorities, constraints, decision authorities, and modernization objectives.
• Lead executive briefings, technical reviews, decision forums, working groups, and program reviews.
• Translate complex cryptographic and cybersecurity findings into actionable executive decisions, mission risk, resource requirements, sequencing, and investment priorities.
• Ensure customer decisions, dependencies, and actions are captured and driven to closure.
• Own overall execution of contract scope, deliverables, milestones, quality, risk, staffing, and customer commitments.
• Coordinate technical workstreams spanning cryptographic discovery, inventory and CBOM development, architecture assessment, risk prioritization, crypto‑agility, and PQC migration planning.
• Partner with the Senior PQC/Cryptography Architect to ensure technical approaches are defensible, executable, and aligned with applicable NIST and Federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Maintain an integrated view of schedule, dependencies, risks, decisions, staffing, customer actions, and deliverable status.
• Establish delivery governance, performance measures, escalation mechanisms, and quality controls.
• Ensure technical and analytic products clearly communicate findings, evidence, mission impact, migration priorities, and recommended actions.
• Drive issues and blockers to resolution before they affect mission outcomes or customer confidence.
• Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of cryptography SMEs, cybersecurity engineers, architects, analysts, and other technical personnel.
• Establish expectations for technical quality, responsiveness, collaboration, accountability, and customer service.
• Work with technical leads to balance workload, priorities, and resource requirements.
• Coach task leads and develop future customer‑facing and technical leaders.
• Partner with ATS leadership and Recruiting to identify and secure cleared personnel with the appropriate technical skill mix.
• Monitor contract performance, labor utilization, burn, margin, subcontractor performance, staffing, and forecast-to-complete.
• Identify schedule, staffing, technical, financial, and contractual risks early and implement appropriate corrective action.
• Ensure timely and accurate contract reporting and support internal program and executive reviews.
• Coordinate with Contracts, Finance, Security, and other corporate functions to ensure engagement compliance and sound execution.
• Identify adjacent customer needs, follow‑on requirements, and modernization opportunities that emerge through delivery.
• Partner with Growth and Capture teams on on‑contract growth, option periods, recompetes, and targeted new work.
• Provide customer insight, technical context, competitive intelligence, and mission understanding to account and capture strategies.
• Support white papers, technical solutioning, demonstrations, proposals, and executive engagement where appropriate.
• Help position ATS as a long‑term partner in cryptographic modernization, post‑quantum readiness, and broader cybersecurity transformation.

Skills

Leadership

Federal cybersecurity

Program management

Executive communications

Customer engagement

Security governance

Cryptographic modernization

Tools

CBOM concepts

Post-quantum cryptography

NIST frameworks

Job description

Acclaim Technical Services in Reston, VA, is seeking a Senior Engagement Lead, Cryptographic Modernization, for a national-security engagement in Northern Virginia. The role leads customer engagement, integrated delivery, and contract performance, with strong emphasis on cryptographic modernization and PQC.

You will work with the Senior PQC Architect, lead a multidisciplinary team, and interface with senior government stakeholders to translate findings into mission impact, plans, and funding.