Sr. Director Software Engineering

About Gartner IT:

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.

About the Role:

Gartner is looking for a well-rounded and motivated leader to lead a fast-paced team, working on cutting edge AI solutions based on natural language processing, machine learning, and Generative AI. In addition to leading a distributed team of around 15 developers and 10 QA engineers, the role requires being the location lead for bringing together over 40 employees across various teams every two weeks to enable opportunities for better networking and interactions in a hybrid work environment.

What you’ll do:

• Be a leader for high performing engineering teams, building AI-based solutions.

• Work closely with business stakeholders to define and implement the product roadmap.

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of end users, designers, application developers, product operations, architects to understand complex product requirements and translate them into solutions.

• Establish best practices for engineering based on an agile delivery process.

• Design successful deployment, security, high availability and disaster recovery strategies for cloud based solutions.

• Collaborate with colleagues to support and improve systems, processes, standards and tools.

• Be the leader in building a culture of collaboration and deeper connections across all the teams at the location.

What you will need:

• Bachelor of Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 12+ years of experience in software development leading teams of managers, architects, developers, and testers in support of complex business functions.

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to work collaboratively.

• Solid technical hands-on background, preferably in the areas of Java, Python, Databases, Cassandra or similar NoSQL databases, React Framework, and AWS Services (e.g. EC2, Lambda, SNS, SQS, RDS).

• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Camelot, Spacy NLP, NLTK , Pandas, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Numpy, GenAI models, LangChain.

• Exceptional people management skills with an emphasis on mentoring.

• Strong foundation in application architecture and software development.

• Experience in managing multiple product development teams consisting of sharp engineers, conducting design and code reviews, ensuring best practices are followed by the team.

• Significant experience in Agile/Scrum process

Who you are:

• A natural leader and an excellent communicator who enjoys bringing people together.

• Someone whom the team can appreciate as a mentor and guide.

• An able facilitator, who can drive user requirements gathering sessions and oversee their technical implementation.

• An innovator who also knows how to balance technical innovation and product features with measurable ROI.

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

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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 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 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.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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