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Cryptography Architect
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18 August 2026 (7 hours ago)
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15 November 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
At Qualtrics we create software the worlds best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences build high-performing teams and design products people love. But we are more than a platformwe are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit determination and a disdain for conventionbut most of all it requires close-knit high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams youll be part of a nimble group thats empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You wont have to look to find growth opportunitiesready or not theyll find you. From retail to government to healthcare were on a mission to bring humanity connection and empathy back to business. Join over 5000 people across the globe who think thats work worth doing.
When you join one of our teams youll be part of a nimble group thats empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You wont have to look to find growth opportunitiesready or not theyll find you. From retail to government to healthcare were on a mission to bring humanity connection and empathy back to business. Join over 5000 people across the globe who think thats work worth doing.
Cryptography Architect
Why We Have This Role
Cryptography is the foundation that confidentiality integrity and trust in our systems rest on and that foundation faces real pressure: weak or misused algorithms poor key management protocol vulnerabilities and the looming migration to post-quantum cryptography. The Cryptography Architect leads the design and implementation of cryptographic frameworks that protect our systems and data building resilience against these threats and earning our customers trust.
How Youll Find Success- Strategic Visionary: You hold a holistic view of the cryptographic threat landscape from classicalattacks to the shift toward post-quantum cryptography proactively identifying and mitigatingemerging risks. You guide cryptographic architecture strategy so it aligns with the organizations riskposture and business goals.
- Technical Innovator: Your drive for continuous improvement pushes you to explore and implementcutting-edge cryptographic practices post-quantum algorithms key management modernizationsecure protocol design keeping our systems resilient against evolving threats.
- Collaborative Leader: You build partnerships across security engineering and data sciencepromoting best practices in cryptography. Your ability to foster collaboration creates an informedcohesive environment dedicated to protecting our systems.
- Resilient and Adaptive: You thrive in a fast-paced environment managing complex projects whileguiding cross-functional teams through shifts in cryptographic standards or technology. Yourproblem-solving skills are essential to navigating the complexities of cryptographic governance.
- Shape Industry Standards: Participate in industry conferences standards bodies such as NIST andIETF and professional organizations to influence the future of cryptography and key managementpractices.
- Executive Presence: Increase your visibility and involvement in executive-level discussions refininghow you communicate strategic security insights.
- Expand Your Leadership Toolkit: As a thought leader in cryptography architecture mentor andcoach emerging talent growing the cryptographic expertise across the organization.
- Complex Problem-Solving: Tackle significant cryptography challenges that sharpen your analyticalcritical thinking and strategic planning abilities.
- Drive Innovation in Cryptography: Lead research evaluation and implementation of next-generation cryptographic technologies and methodologies post-quantum algorithms modern keymanagement secure protocol design that support our products and platforms.
- Conduct Security Reviews: Perform security reviews of cryptographic implementations andproposed designs including key management systems protocols and cryptographic integrationsacross products identifying risks such as weak or deprecated algorithms improper key handlingand protocol vulnerabilities.
- Lead Key Management Architecture: Own the strategy and architecture for key management acrossthe organization key generation distribution rotation escrow and destruction includingKMS/HSM integration envelope encryption and secrets management ensuring the full key lifecycleis designed and operated to withstand compromise.
- Develop Standards & Reference Architectures: Author cryptography-related technical securitystandards guardrails and reference architectures encryption standards key managementstandards PKI architecture grounded in industry-wide frameworks such as NIST SP 800-57 FIPS140-3 and NISTs post-quantum cryptography standards giving product and engineering teams asecure repeatable blueprint for building and deploying cryptographic solutions.
- Shape Security Strategy: Develop a comprehensive cryptography strategy that aligns with theorganizations risk profile and business objectives.
- Manage Complex Projects: Oversee execution of large-scale cryptography initiatives such as PKImodernization or post-quantum migration ensuring on-time on-budget delivery while proactivelyaddressing risks and fostering adaptability within teams.
- Foster a Culture of Excellence: Create an environment that promotes knowledge sharingcollaboration and continuous learning. Mentor colleagues to build a high-performing teamcommitted to our security objectives.
While we value the wealth of experience we put more emphasis on your capability and the outcomesyouve produced. For this role these elements are particularly important:What You Should Know About This Team
- Extensive Architectural Expertise: 5 years of experience in cryptography security architecture or arelated field with a proven history of designing secure cryptographic architectures; capable ofleading strategic initiatives to strengthen security posture.
- Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of cryptographic primitives and protocols symmetricand asymmetric encryption hashing digital signatures TLS/PKI. Deep hands-on knowledge of keymanagement (generation rotation escrow destruction KMS/HSM integration) and fluency inindustry-wide standards and frameworks including NIST SP 800-57 FIPS 140-2/140-3 and NISTspost-quantum cryptography standards.
- Demonstrated Initiative Leadership: Proven experience leading large-scale cryptography initiativescoordinating cross-functional teams to align with security guidelines while driving operationalefficiency and business growth.
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate cryptography challenges into actionable solutions thatintegrate with business objectives and risk management frameworks.
- Collaboration & Communication Skills: Excellent communication abilities to engage effectively withboth technical and non-technical stakeholders fostering constructive partnerships across theorganization.
- Our teams emphasizes technical craftsmanship collaboration across languages and domains and continuous improvement.
- Youll join a culture committed to innovation mentorship and shared ownership with a strong focus on quality and reliability.
- We partner closely with product infrastructure and data science teams to solve challenging problems at large scale.
- Opportunities to lead initiatives that influence company technical strategy and operational maturity.
Our Teams Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each year of service (to a max of 5).
- Private Medical Insurance- Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
- Commuter Assistance- Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
- Savings Plan- Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO)
- QED PROGRAM- Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
- Wellness- Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Forma
- A choice of Multispot cards available.
- Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees
- Experience bonus- 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
- Group Life & Income Protection Insurance
- Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement
- Free breakfasts lunches snacks and drinks for everyone in the office
- Tax-deductible expenses (up to 50% depending on role)
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week work where you want owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic.
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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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