Associate Director Quantum Technologies

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Applied Innovation's Next Frontier focuses on emerging technologies, including Physical AI, Quantum Computing, and Frontier AI, amongst others such as Cyber Frontier. This initiative translates advanced capabilities into measurable outcomes, helping clients and EY teams unlock new opportunities through technology-driven capabilities.

EY's Next Frontier Quantum team helps organizations manage quantum-era risk and develop practical quantum-enabled opportunities. The portfolio emphasizes quantum-safe cybersecurity, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), cryptographic modernization and agility, supported by selective quantum computing innovation and ecosystem partnerships.

• Lead enterprise quantum-risk and PQC-readiness assessments across governance, data, applications, infrastructure, cryptographic assets, third parties and operating models.
• Define quantum-safe strategies, target-state architectures, prioritized roadmaps and migration plans aligned to business criticality, data sensitivity, regulation and technology dependencies.
• Direct cryptographic discovery, inventory and dependency-mapping initiatives covering certificates, keys, algorithms, protocols, libraries and services.
• Lead modernization across PKI, certificate lifecycle management, KMS, HSM, IAM, secrets management, TLS, SSH, VPN, signing and enterprise encryption.
• Design crypto-agile governance and engineering patterns that support hybrid deployment, algorithm replacement and phased migration.
• Guide evaluation, benchmarking, piloting and implementation of PQC algorithms, including ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA, with awareness of Falcon, Classic McEliece and other advanced approaches.
• Assess implementations for protocol fit, interoperability, performance, side-channel exposure, certificate and key impacts, compliance and operational risk.
• Advise executives on Shor’s and Grover’s algorithms, harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure, supplier readiness and third-party migration roadmaps.

• Maintain strong knowledge of the PQC and quantum-security vendor landscape, including cryptographic discovery, migration, secure communications, QKD, QRNG and enabling technologies.
• Evaluate vendors for maturity, strategic fit, interoperability, security, performance, architecture, product roadmap, implementation requirements and commercial potential.
• Advise clients on market scans, build-buy-partner decisions, requests for information, proofs of concept and technology selection.
• Maintain familiarity with relevant ecosystem participants such as IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Quantinuum, SandboxAQ, PQShield, Q-CTRL and other established and emerging providers.
• Monitor and interpret developments from NIST, ETSI, IETF, ISO or IEC, FIPS and relevant regulatory or industry initiatives.
• Build relationships with technology providers, startups, academic institutions, standards bodies, national programs and industry consortia.

• Lead complex, multi-workstream engagements from opportunity shaping and mobilization through delivery, executive readout and implementation planning.
• Own scope, quality, financial performance, staffing, risks, dependencies, governance and stakeholder expectations across global teams.
• Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Chief Risk Officers, enterprise architects and data‑protection leaders.
• Shape go‑to‑market strategy and offerings for quantum‑risk…