Quantum Security & Sovereign Lead

Job Description

Role: Quantum Security & Sovereign Lead

Location: London

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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The Quantum Security & Sovereign Lead is responsible for shaping and executing enterprise strategies at the intersection of postquantum security, cryptographic resilience, and sovereign cloud architectures. The role ensures that organizations remain secure, compliant, and operationally sovereign as quantum computing disrupts traditional encryption and global dataresidency models. (IBM/RedHat)

This role bridges emerging quantum risk, regulatory sovereignty requirements, and enterprise security architecture, translating futurestate threats into actionable transformation programs today.

Key Responsibilities

Quantum & PostQuantum Security Strategy

• Lead enterprise wide assessments of quantum related cryptographic risk, including “harvest now, decrypt later” exposure.

• Define post quantum cryptography (PQC) and crypto agility roadmaps aligned to NIST and emerging regulatory standards.

• Advise executive leadership on quantum risk timelines, migration complexity, and longterm data protection strategies.

Sovereign Cloud & Data Residency

• Design and govern sovereign by design security architectures, ensuring data residency, jurisdictional control, and regulatory compliance.

• Advise on sovereign cloud models (domestic control planes, restricted access, hybrid sovereign architectures).

• Ensure cryptographic, identity, and access controls align with national and regional sovereignty requirements.

Executive & Regulatory Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to C-Suite, government stakeholders, regulators, and risk committees.

• Translate highly technical quantum and cryptographic concepts into business, policy, and compliance language.

• Support regulatory readiness related to sovereignty, encryption, and long life cycle data protection.

Architecture & Transformation Leadership

• Guide security, cloud, and enterprise architecture teams in embedding quantum safe and sovereign controls into platforms, networks, and applications.

• Align security transformation with AI, cloud, and critical infrastructure modernisation initiatives.

• Influence vendor and ecosystem strategies to ensure sovereign compatibility and crypto agility.

Typical Scope & Clients

• Regulated industries (financial services, public sector, defence, healthcare, energy)

• National and regional governments

• Critical infrastructure operators

• Global enterprises subject to data sovereignty and longterm confidentiality requirements

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of deep expertise in cryptography, key management, and enterprise security architecture

• 5+ years of experience of post quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum risk models

• 10+ Years of Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, and regulatory security frameworks

Professional Skills

• Executive level stakeholder management

• Ability to operate across strategy, governance, and execution

• Strong translation skills between technical, legal, and business domains

• Cybersecurity, security architecture, technology risk, or emerging technology consulting

• Experience in regulated or government adjacent environments strongly preferred

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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