Next Frontier Cyber Lead

EY•Atlanta, DC

1d•$150,000 - $337,500

About The Position

EY’s Applied Innovation Next Frontier initiative focuses on emerging technologies, including Physical AI, Quantum Computing, Frontier AI, and Cyber Frontier. It translates advanced capabilities into measurable outcomes to help clients and EY teams unlock technology-driven opportunities. The Next Frontier Cyber Lead will advance EY’s frontier cyber capabilities, particularly those aligned with frontier AI models. The role focuses on practical Cyber Agentic capabilities and frameworks that deliver measurable enterprise value, including cyber world models, agentic AI red-teaming tools and frameworks, and strategic plans to modernize information security for the AI age. The team will focus on frontier tools developed by startups and using open-weight models, complementing EY’s core cyber capabilities. As part of an emerging technology team within Frontier, reporting under the direct leadership of Dr. Rodrigo Madanes, EY Global Innovation Next Frontier Leader, the role requires practical expertise in both cybersecurity and Agentic AI, along with curiosity and the ability to learn quickly. The position provides technical and strategic leadership for development and adoption of frontier cyber defense capabilities, tools, and assessments across the enterprise. It also includes shaping go-to-market strategy, advising senior stakeholders and clients, managing complex transformation programs, leading technical teams, and designing cyber frontier strategies and architectures.

Requirements

Master’s or Ph.D. in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, with significant cyber safety experience.
12–15+ years of overall experience.
Deep knowledge of cybersecurity.
Expertise in cryptography, cyber standards, and cybersecurity design patterns.
Familiarity with cyber defense principles, including attack modeling and mitigations.
Knowledge of Agentic AI as it relates to cybersecurity.
Proven ability to advise executives and influence cybersecurity and emerging technology strategy decisions.
Strong consulting skills, including roadmap development, solution architecture, and client relationship management.
Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and cross-sector programs with multiple stakeholders.
Hands-on experience implementing and securing enterprise cybersecurity and cryptographic systems.
Demonstrated experience designing and reviewing enterprise architectures, reference models, and distributed system designs.
Experience leading multi-year enterprise cyber and transformation programs, including TLS modernization and PKI redesign.
Proven track record working in global consulting or large-scale cross-functional environments.
Experience deploying and scaling quantum-resistant networks or advanced secure communication frameworks.
Technical leadership experience demonstrated through publications, whitepapers, standards work, or executive-grade technical materials.

Responsibilities

Provide technical and strategic leadership for developing and adopting Cyber Agentic frontier defense capabilities, tools, and assessments across the enterprise.
Develop and drive Cyber Agentic frontier programs, assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
Shape and support Cyber go-to-market strategy with Cyber teams, Global Markets, sector teams, and alliance partners.
Advise senior stakeholders and clients on risks, architectures, and opportunities in Cyber Agentic frontier safety.
Advise senior technical and business leaders on AI model sandboxes, model misbehavior, zero-day vulnerability brute-force discovery, defensive agentic sentries, and the capabilities and enterprise impact of proprietary versus open-weight models.
Produce executive-ready documentation, architecture standards, and thought leadership.
Partner with sector leaders and client-serving teams to shape solution approaches and promote adoption of Cyber-safe architectures.
Manage delivery of complex Cyber safety transformations, coordinating engineering, architecture, and research teams.
Lead a technical team of cyber developers and establish engineering best practices, documentation standards, and architectural governance.
Oversee the cyber frontier-risk assessment lifecycle, including threat modeling.
Lead the design and implementation of cyber frontier strategy and architecture.
Architect cyber agentic-resistant networks, including network sentries, and red teaming of networks.
Provide technical leadership for cyber defense initiatives, including attack modeling, countermeasure evaluation, and resilience testing.
Evaluate, select, and integrate cyber solutions into enterprise systems and products.
Review and lead development of proofs of concept using frontier cyber platforms to simulate attacks and validate defensive architectures.
Produce and review technical content, architecture blueprints, whitepapers, and executive-level reporting.