Director, Data Analytics

About this role:

Gartner IT- Chief Data & Analytics team is currently seeking an exceptional leader responsible for driving the development and execution of DA capabilities to meet business evolving needs.

This role involves managing data analytics teams, implementing best practices, and ensuring data is effectively used to support business goals.
 

What you will do:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for high performing Data and Analytics Engineering teams, with a focus on delivering scalable, high impact solutions aligned to business priorities.
• Own the delivery and evolution of secure, scalable data integration models – closely partnering with business leaders an IT stakeholders to ensure
• Champion and fully adopt agile practice across the teams, ensuring teams constantly apply agile best practice across delivery cycle.
• Drive multi-year Enterprises data initiatives by collaborating across cross-functional teams to ensure successfully outcomes
• Monitor and analyze delivery metrics, using KPIs and OKRs to identify improvement opportunities and optimize engineering processes.
• Effectively communicate technical concepts, influence decision-making, and build consensus among stakeholders.
• Manage, mentor, and scale both offshore and onshore data and analytics teams, ensuring high-quality output, collaboration and alignment to enterprise goals.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and build effective working relationships across business units and lines of defense
   

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field with 11+ years of industry experience.
• Strong leadership skills in the areas of communication, collaboration, talent development, and stakeholder relationships.
• Extensive experience in data and analytics engineering, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines and platforms.
• Hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools and frameworks such as Azure data factory, azure synapse, and DevOps.
• Technical expertise in modern data integration approaches, including event-driven architecture, batch processing, and data streaming.
• Proven track record to lead technical teams in resolving complex data integration and analytics challenges
• Experience in BI development using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
• Exceptional problem-solving ability, with a mindset for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Strong data analytical skills, including SQL, query optimization, and prompt-writing
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver compelling executive-level presentations. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts and analyses in a clear and accessible manner. Strong influencing skills to achieve alignment across technology teams.
• Leadership skills to mentor and guide a team of data engineers and analytics engineers in their daily tasks.
• Exceptional people management skills with an emphasis on mentoring.
• Strong foundation in application architecture and software development.
• Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring best practices are followed by the team.
• Significant experience in Agile/Kanban or Scaled Agile Frameworks.

Who you are:

• A technology focused Leader with hands on coding experience in relevant technologies
• Excellent communication skills.
• Builds great Teams
• Owns success – Takes responsibility for the successful delivery of the solutions.
• Ability to work and collaborate with a team.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies
• Project work delivered on time within budget
• All work products are delivered with high quality

What we offer:
In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including:

• Competitive base salary
• Flexible work environment
• A great work culture
   

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

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