The posting
Hiring near our Irving, TX and Stamford, CT Centers of Excellence with a flexible environment.
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:
We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Conference Tech platform integrations, to enable a seamless, world-class experience for C-level executives. This role will be responsible for leading cross regional engineering teams to execute platform integrations, elevate engineering excellence, and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions aligned with business strategy.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead Engineering: Lead a cross regional engineering team to deliver innovative solutions while fostering ownership, accountability, and high performance.
- Drive Platform Integration: Execute the conference platform integration roadmap, influence technology direction, and ensure successful delivery in an agile environment.
- Enable Engineering Excellence: Strengthen SDLC rigor, platform architecture, and engineering discipline, embedding responsible AI practices to deliver secure, scalable, and future ready enterprise solutions.
- Partner & Lead Change: Partner with Conference business and IT leaders to align technology solutions to strategic priorities, and lead change to ensure successful adoption of new platforms, processes, and ways of working.
- Champion Quality: Drive a quality first culture leveraging AI powered, responsible SDLC practices that improve reliability, scalability, and delivery efficiency.
What You Will Need:
- Education: Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science or related field.
- Experience: 12–15 years in software engineering, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
- Technical Expertise: Strong execution background in enterprise platform integrations, cloud architecture (AWS), Object oriented programming – .NET/Java/Ruby, and expertise in building enterprise‑scale API‑centric and event driven platforms. Experience leveraging AI powered features within digital platforms to deliver personalized, intuitive user experiences and to improve user engagement and elevate attendee experiences.
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to manage distributed teams and drive organizational change. Ability to collaborate across IT and business functions to drive innovation.
- Preferred: Curiosity and drive for continuous learning. Experience leading large platform integration initiatives.
Who You Are:
- A strategic leader dedicated to building and sustaining high performing teams equipped for the future.
- Collaborative and adaptable, thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Passionate about technology, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- A trusted, influential communicator who fosters alignment and momentum through integrity, transparency, and clear engagement across technical and business stakeholders.
- Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles!
What you will get:
- Competitive compensation.
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
- Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!
- A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
- A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
- Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
- 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
- Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
- 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
- Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
- Parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Gartner Gives Charity Match. And much more!
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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 business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.
Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 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 vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. 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.
Gartner is the world authority on AI
At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.
It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.
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.
Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 128,000 USD - 189,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.
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