Cryptographer Senior Consultant

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Drive quantum-readiness strategy for government and public sector organizations as they assess cryptographic risk and prepare for post-quantum cryptography migration. This role supports clients in evaluating current-state cryptographic environments, prioritizing modernization activities, and designing approaches that align cybersecurity objectives, regulatory expectations, and mission needs. The ideal candidate brings experience in cryptography, cyber transformation, and stakeholder engagement across complex enterprise environments.

Work You’ll Do

As a Senior Consultant, Strategy, Growth, and Transformation on the Cyber Strategy & Transformation team, you will be responsible for helping government and public sector clients assess cryptographic risk and plan for a quantum-resilient future.

• Lead cryptographic discovery and inventory activities across enterprise technology, cloud environments, public key infrastructure, and operational technology / internet of things environments
• Assess quantum risk across client environments and support prioritization of systems for post-quantum cryptography migration
• Design and evaluate crypto-agile architectures using post-quantum cryptography algorithms, including ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA, aligned to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 203, 204, and 205
• Support cryptographic resilience programs involving key management, certificate lifecycle processes, hardware security modules, and Zero Trust alignment
• Translate technical cryptographic risks into actionable recommendations for senior government stakeholders and contribute to proposals, white papers, and market-facing collateral
• Ability to communicate cryptographic risk clearly to non-technical audiences — executives, program managers, and policy stakeholder

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required clearance for this role
• Ability to travel 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Minimum of 6 years professional experie