Director, Architecture - Digital Assets

Job Description:

Position Description:

Leads research, design, testing, evaluation, benchmarking, and education on quantum security architecture to ensure the business and its customers’ data remain secure against current and future vulnerabilities. Identifies and communicates current and emerging security threats and how quantum approaches, advances in quantum computing, the internet, and PII theft, may reduce, mitigate, or prevent these threats. Explores applications to make classical approaches quantum secure, using QRNG in for key generation, QKD and post-quantum cryptography for secure key distribution, and secure unidirectional data transmission. Identifies security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommends changes or enhancements with a primary focus on where quantum could provide advantage. Defines quantum and quantum-inspired information architecture for key domains (including HR, Legal, Risk and Compliance, Finance, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Technology Management). Develops and articulates robust and innovative quantum security technical solutions that apply to Cloud-based and Cloud-integrated services, network servers, endpoints, and databases, and adapts security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership in quantum and quantum-inspired information security technologies.  
• Provides technical expertise and mentorship to cybersecurity engineers and analysts.
• Delivers quantum information security education and presentations with internal/external clients and key stakeholders. 
• Defines alternative quantum architectural strategies with security focus to help ensure system and solutions are secure by design.
• Evaluates quantum security related tools and technologies and recommends appropriate implementation methodologies to ensure appropriate security of ecosystem.
• Provides technical leadership and design guidance to advance information security, using the evolving quantum computing technology stack and collaborates with business units to share insights and offer informed guidance.
• Collaborates with developers to develop, build, and test quantum secure solutions and algorithms.
• Identifies relevant benchmarks to assess performance of solutions.
• Defines, builds, and tests experimental/research-based quantum security solutions that align with internal security and/or regulatory requirements.
• Participates in code reviews, conducts vulnerability testing, validates remediation efforts, and enhances the secure software development lifecycle through quantum-inspired and quantum-based architectures.
• Collaborates with enterprise architects to establish and maintain enterprise standards, while conducting quantum information security proof-of-concepts to ensure those standards remain current.
• Presents at conferences and in presentations.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Physics, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Architecture - Digital Assets (or closely related occupation) developing large scale quantum safe security solutions for data communication, identity, access management, digital assets storage, and processing, in a financial services environment.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Physics, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Architecture - Digital Assets (or closely related occupation) developing large scale quantum safe security solutions for data communication, identity, access management, digital assets storage, and processing, in a financial services environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) identifying digital assets, data, and processes dependent on cryptography, using Crypto-Detector, pqcscan, CrypTool, or IBM Quantum Safe Explorer; building threat mitigation strategy using classical and post-quantum cryptography methods -- Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and  Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), Module-Lattice group of algorithms (ML-*), Stateless-Hash-based Digital Signature Algorithm (SLH-DSA), FALCON NTRU Digital Signature Algorithm (FN-DSA), and DieHard suite of tools; evaluating the applicability of new technologies, including quantum random number generators, NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography algorithms, and quantum key distribution, for securing digital assets platforms, using DieHard suite o