Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography Director

Overview

In this role you will establish and grow Booz Allen’s Commercial PQC practice, defining standards and services for commercial clients. You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration to assess risk, educate executives, and design quantum‑resistant architectures that align with enterprise goals. You will build and mentor a team of PQC experts, deliver cryptographic assessments, pilots, and migration initiatives, and partner with product, IT, and infrastructure teams to ensure best practices across client environments. This is a strategic, impact‑driven leadership position with significant client and internal collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Establish and grow the Commercial PQC practice; define direction, standards, and requirements for services and solutions
• Lead security reviews, cryptographic inventories, PQC pilots, and tooling migrations to quantum‑resistant systems
• Deliver assessments of cryptographic environments with remediation plans and operating models
• Educate and influence client executives and engineering teams on PQC best practices
• Collaborate with product, IT, networking, and infrastructure teams to embed PQC in architectures and designs
• Hire, lead, and inspire teams of PQC experts across projects and client engagements
• Present recommendations and roadmaps to executive stakeholders
• Advance large‑scale deployments and the transition of existing infrastructure to quantum‑resistant protocols

Key requirements

• 8+ years of experience leading technical teams in PQC, classical cryptography, or secure communications
• 5+ years with infrastructure component management or design, including interoperability of cryptographic protocols
• Experience presenting recommendations and roadmaps to executive stakeholders
• Experience developing and testing interoperability of quantum‑resistant algorithms
• Experience leading 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%
• Bachelor’s degree

• Strategic leadership
• Executive communication
• Cross‑functional collaboration
• PQC
• classical cryptography
• secure communications

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