Expert Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity & Cryptography SME

Shape the future of secure finance — lead the transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity and cryptography.

Krakow-based opportunity with a hybrid work model, including up to 4 remote days per week.

As an Expert Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity & Cryptography SME, you will be working for our client, a highly regulated financial institution, supporting a Quantum Safe Programme focused on strengthening cybersecurity resilience and preparing technology environments for the evolving cryptographic landscape. You will provide expert guidance, shape secure engineering decisions, and help delivery teams implement practical, risk-informed quantum-safe solutions aligned with governance and control expectations.

Your main responsibilities:

• Provide expert guidance on cryptographic risk, key management, transport security, certificates, PKI, and crypto-agility.
• Translate quantum-safe objectives into practical security requirements, guardrails, and engineering guidance.
• Assess technical options, trade-offs, dependencies, and risks, delivering clear recommendations.
• Review solution designs, technical approaches, and remediation patterns against security principles, standards, and controls.
• Support threat modelling and security-by-design activities for quantum-safe initiatives.
• Contribute to discovery, prioritisation, remediation pattern development, migration readiness, and vendor security assessments.
• Define security success criteria, constraints, and safe deployment approaches for pilots and proofs of concept.
• Identify control gaps and security risks, support risk acceptance decisions, and ensure documentation is clear, traceable, and evidence-ready.

You're ideal for this role if you have:

• At least 7 years of experience in cybersecurity, secure engineering, security architecture, technology risk, or a related field.
• Demonstrable expertise in cryptography and secure engineering, including TLS, PKI and certificates, key management, and cryptographic standards.
• Experience working in regulated environments with strong governance and control expectations.
• The ability to influence technical delivery through pragmatic, risk-based decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into actionable guidance.
• Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior stakeholders.
• The ability to support evidence-based security decisions and explain risks, recommended actions, and control requirements clearly.

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Familiarity with quantum-safe or post-quantum cryptography concepts, including crypto inventories, migration patterns, vendor readiness, and enablement.
• Experience supporting large-scale security transformation programmes across federated organisations.
• Experience within a highly regulated financial institution.
• Experience building or contributing to a security community of practice.

Language Required for the role: Fluent English.

Eligibility for the role: Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in Europe will be considered for this role.

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