Lead Software Engineer

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 seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer with expertise in large-scale systems to join our organization. In this role, you will lead an Agile Engineering team which is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining applications that facilitate C-level conferences, while working in closely collaboration with a matrixed global team primarily located in the United States. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned IT professional with 7-8 years of experience in leading enterprise software delivery projects. They should possess strong qualitative and quantitative problem-solving abilities, along with a high degree of ownership and accountability. This role offers the opportunity to gain comprehensive knowledge of our conference technology platform and to play a pivotal role in establishing and nurturing a high-performing team in India.
 

Who You Are:

• You are a proven leader with exceptional skills in team management, communication, collaboration, and influence, capable of inspiring and guiding a diverse group of professionals.
• You thrive in fast-paced environments and have experience working within a distributed, matrixed team across the US and India, seamlessly navigating a hybrid work setting.
• You possess a strong ownership mindset, proactively identifying, addressing, and communicating issues, and are unafraid to suggest constructive improvements and seek feedback for continuous enhancement.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with Conference and broader IT team members to design and develop technical solutions that align with business objectives, ensuring functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Proactively identify opportunities for product and system enhancements to improve tool appeal, streamline processes, and enhance overall functionality and performance.
• Lead the development of maintenance and enhancement work items, focusing on performance tuning, testing, refactoring, usability, and automation.
• Monitor and maintain production systems to guarantee high availability and optimal performance.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering growth and development within the team.

What You Will Need:

• BS in Computer Science, related fields, or equivalent IT experience. 7+ years of experience in software development. 2+ years of experience leading teams.
• Leadership and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Experience relentlessly pursuing and maintaining high quality while delivering on tight schedules.
• Track record of balancing management and delivery of problems, incidents, technical debt and product roadmap with awareness of target results/outcomes.
• Well-developed strategy for driving continuous improvement within teams and beyond; Using both qualitative and quantitative measures to understand problems and communicate impact of experiments.
• Strong Knowledge of agile methodologies and practices
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming using Java, Ruby or .NET.
• Strong Knowledge of JavaScript, React, Relational DB and RESTful APIs.  
• Technical leadership to own operational support of Business-Critical apps.
• Experience with AWS, DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Experience in observability and test-driven development/SDET practices.

What You Will Need:

• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal and prioritization skills.
• Proactive and capable of working independently with a distributed team (spread across US and India) in a hybrid environment.
• Possess an ownership mindset, able to identify, communicate, and act on issues and initiatives.
• Skilled in working on parallel initiatives in an organized and timely manner.

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 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.

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