Commercial Post-Quantum Cryptography Director

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• 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
• Bachelors degree
• 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

Responsibilities:

• Establish and grow our Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) practice
• Define the PQC teams direction, standards, and requirements for services and solutions sold to our 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

Technologies:

• AI
• Cryptography
• Hardware
• Support
• Security

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We are Booz Allen and we are hiring for our Commercial Post Quantum Cryptography Director role in The Hague, South Holland, with additional location listed as Cambridgeshire. This is a full-time position focused on building and scaling our Commercial PQC practice. We are committed to a fair candidate process and note that AI use during interviews or assessments is prohibited unless explicitly permitted. We also state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or other applicable protected status.

last updated 37 week of 2026