Head of Cryptography

State Street

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Location
Quincy, MABerwyn, PAPrinceton, NJClifton, NJAustin, TX
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Full-time
Posted
68 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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State Street Corporation is one of the world''s largest custodian banks and asset managers, providing investment servicing, investment management, and investment research to institutional investors. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Custody

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TL;DR · Head of Cryptography

The Head of Cryptography, MD is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the firm's enterprise cryptography, key management, secrets management, and cryptographic modernization strategy. This leader will oversee the confidentiality, integrity, and resilience of critical systems, applications, and data through industry-leading controls. Key responsibilities include developing a comprehensive cryptography roadmap, managing Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), and leading post-quantum cryptography readiness. The role requires expertise in PKI, secrets vaults, certificate lifecycle management, and tokenization across cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed environments. You will partner with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Data teams to embed secure-by-default services into AI-enabled platforms and Kubernetes environments. The position ensures compliance with frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS while managing cryptographic inventory and legacy algorithm remediation.

What you'll do

  • Define and execute the firm's comprehensive cryptography strategy, roadmap, and governance framework.
  • Establish enterprise standards for encryption, key management, secrets management, and digital signatures.
  • Lead initiatives to modernize cryptographic infrastructure, including legacy algorithm remediation and automated lifecycle management.
  • Operate enterprise-class key management services, hardware security modules, and secrets vaults.
  • Embed secure-by-default cryptographic controls into multi-cloud, SaaS, and containerized environments.
  • Develop and modernize the firm's machine identity strategy for certificates, APIs, and non-human identities.
  • Lead the post-quantum cryptography strategy to assess risk exposure and establish migration roadmaps.
  • Serve as the senior subject matter expert for regulatory audits and internal control reviews.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cryptography, security engineering, or infrastructure security leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated success leading enterprise cryptography or key management programs within large, highly regulated organizations.
  • Deep expertise in applied cryptography, PKI, key management, HSM technologies, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle management.
  • Experience designing cryptographic controls across cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed environments.
  • Strong understanding of post-quantum cryptography strategies and emerging cryptographic standards.
  • Proven track record leading large-scale modernization and transformation initiatives.
  • Experience engaging with executive leadership, regulators, auditors, and major clients.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
  • Advanced degree (preferred).
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, GCFA, or specialized cryptography/security certifications (preferred).

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