Senior Engagement Lead, Cryptographic Modernization (2026-0212)
"What You'll Be Doing"
About This Role
The Engagement Lead is the senior ATS leader accountable for customer engagement, integrated delivery, contract performance, and identifying follow-on opportunities. This person is the primary interface to customer leadership and ensures that technical workstreams — including cryptographic discovery, cryptographic inventory and CBOM development, risk assessment, and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration planning — stay aligned to mission priorities, contract requirements, security obligations, schedule, and measurable outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing
Serve as the primary senior ATS point of contact for customer executives, mission owners, security leaders, engineering stakeholders, and program leadership
Build and sustain trusted relationships across the customer organization
Understand customer mission priorities, constraints, decision authorities, and modernization objectives
Lead executive briefings, technical reviews, decision forums, working groups, and program reviews
Translate complex cryptographic and cybersecurity findings into actionable executive decisions, mission risk, resource requirements, sequencing, and investment priorities
Ensure customer decisions, dependencies, and actions are captured and driven to closure
Own overall execution of contract scope, deliverables, milestones, quality, risk, staffing, and customer commitments
Coordinate technical workstreams spanning cryptographic discovery, inventory and CBOM development, architecture assessment, risk prioritization, crypto-agility, and PQC migration planning
Partner with the Senior PQC/Cryptography Architect to ensure technical approaches are defensible, executable, and aligned with applicable NIST and Federal cybersecurity requirements
Maintain an integrated view of schedule, dependencies, risks, decisions, staffing, customer actions, and deliverable status
Establish delivery governance, performance measures, escalation mechanisms, and quality controls
Ensure technical and analytic products clearly communicate findings, evidence, mission impact, migration priorities, and recommended actions
Drive issues and blockers to resolution before they affect mission outcomes or customer confidence
Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of cryptography SMEs, cybersecurity engineers, architects, analysts, and other technical personnel
Set expectations for technical quality, responsiveness, collaboration, accountability, and customer service
Work with technical leads to balance workload, priorities, and resource requirements
Coach task leads and develop future customer-facing and technical leaders
Partner with ATS leadership and Recruiting to identify and secure cleared personnel with the appropriate technical skill mix
Monitor contract performance, labor utilization, burn, margin, subcontractor performance, staffing, and forecast-to-complete
Identify schedule, staffing, technical, financial, and contractual risks early and implement appropriate corrective action
Ensure timely and accurate contract reporting and support internal program and executive reviews
Coordinate with Contracts, Finance, Security, and other corporate functions to ensure engagement compliance and sound execution
Identify adjacent customer needs, follow-on requirements, and modernization opportunities that emerge through delivery
Partner with Growth and Capture teams on on-contract growth, option periods, recompetes, and targeted new work
Provide customer insight, technical context, competitive intelligence, and mission understanding to account and capture strategies
Support white papers, technical solutioning, demonstrations, proposals, and executive engagement where appropriate
Help position ATS as a long-term partner in cryptographic modernization, post-quantum readiness, and broader cybersecurity transformation
What We're Looking For
Active TS/SCI clearance
10+ years of Federal cybersecurity, technology, engineering, or mission-delivery experience
5+ years leading complex technical engagements, programs, or major workstreams
Demonstrated experience supporting Federal national-security, Intelligence Community, or Department of Defense customers
Proven success as a senior customer-facing leader on high-visibility technical engagements
Strong program-management skills spanning scope, schedule, staffing, risk, quality, dependencies, and stakeholder management
Working knowledge of post-quantum cryptography migration, cryptographic discovery and inventory, CBOM concepts, crypto-agility, NIST cybersecurity/cryptography frameworks, and Federal cyber governance
Ability to translate complex technical findings into mission impact, migration priorities, schedule, resource needs, funding implications, and executive decisions
Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams and SMEs
Strong executive communication, briefing, facilitation, and technical-writing skills
Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior Government stakeholders
Ability to work on-site at the required customer cadence
Bonus Points
PMP, CISSP, CGRC, or similar certification
Experience leading cryptographic modernization, PQC readiness, PKI modernization, or crypto-agility initiatives
Experience supporting enterprise cybersecurity modernization, Zero Trust, or other large-scale Federal transformation programs
Familiarity with cryptographic inventory, CBOM, migration roadmaps, and risk-prioritization methodologies
Experience managing subcontractors and integrated contractor teams
Experience supporting recompetes, on-contract growth, capture, or technical proposal development
Experience presenting cybersecurity modernization strategies to CIO, CISO, engineering, mission, or other executive stakeholders
Why Join Us
Pay range: $150,000–$180,000, subject to confirmation against final scope and required experience
ATS is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and shared success
Consistently recognized as a top workplace in the DC area
Competitive compensation, career growth, benefits, and learning and development opportunities
Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits
Salary Range
USD 150,000 - 180,000 per year
About Acclaim Technical Services
Acclaim Technical Services (ATS) is a pioneering force at the intersection of national security and advanced blockchain technology. Based in Annapolis Junction, Anne Arundel County, we leverage the transformative power of Web3 to deliver cutting-edge solutions for complex challenges. Our mission is to secure, decentralize, and innovate critical infrastructures using robust blockchain frameworks, contributing to a safer and more efficient digital future. We are not just adopting new technologies; we are actively shaping their application in sensitive and high-stakes environments. At ATS, we cultivate a culture of innovation, intellectual curiosity, and rigorous problem-solving. We believe in empowering our engineers, developers, and strategists to explore emerging crypto trends and distributed ledger technologies in a collaborative and supportive environment. Our team thrives on pushing boundaries, turning intricate technical concepts into actionable, secure, and resilient blockchain-based systems. We prioritize continuous learning, professional growth, and a commitment to excellence in every project we undertake. Join Acclaim Technical Services to be at the forefront of Web3 innovation within a critical sector. If you're passionate about blockchain, eager to apply your skills to impactful, real-world challenges, and want to contribute to projects that enhance national security, ATS offers an unparalleled opportunity. Come build the decentralized future with a team dedicated to integrity, innovation, and making a tangible difference.
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Acclaim Technical Services's official website and follow their application process.