Software Development

Description:

Are you passionate about software engineering? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and experience with others? Do you desire to stay on the forefront of the latest trends and technologies in software engineering? Do you want to help companies get better at developing software?

Gartner is hiring a Research Director focusing on software engineering initiatives and technical challenges. We are seeking someone who is passionate about software engineering. Someone who loves to build compelling products, platforms and services. Someone with hands-on technical expertise with the latest coding practices, architectures and languages, and a strong desire to help others learn and improve how they build software.

We are looking to hire an experienced software engineer to fill this role. Recent hands-on experience as a software engineer is required.

This research director role creates thought leading research for technical professionals around the world. You will publish original research, speak with clients directly, and present at global events and on-site for client engagements. You must be a life-long learner and versatile individual, seasoned in technical software engineering.

This is an individual contributor role as part of a collaborative team of experts in Gartner’s Software Engineering for Technical Professionals practice. Our practice provides the backbone for Gartner software engineering research by creating, identifying, influencing, and sharing best practices across the software design, build and run lifecycle.

In this role you will help shape the way that software is developed and delivered by leading companies worldwide. You will use your expertise and the insights you gain during your Gartner career to guide architects, engineers and senior technologists across a wide range of industries, geographies and sizes. Conversely, our team will help you grow and expand your knowledge and expertise throughout your career at Gartner.

Gartner experts share our knowledge directly through published research, video calls with clients, and conferences worldwide. Responsibilities include:

Developing thought-leading research
Collaborating with your colleagues to advance technical research
Contributing to research planning
Engaging clients in video calls to advise on both strategic and tactical technology initiatives
Supporting the Gartner sales team with virtual tech briefings and video calls with potential clients
Delivering presentations at Gartner events and conferences
Requirements

Gartner is seeking a technical professional with current hands-on agile software engineering skills and knowledge at the team and at the enterprise level.

The following are “must have” areas of experience and expertise for this software engineering role:

10+ years hands-on experience with agile software engineering and software development
5+ years hands-on experience with building and deploying applications using modern development languages, frameworks and platforms for custom software solutions
Direct hands-on experience with software engineering in scopes such as:
Proven understanding of Software Development Life Cycle practices, vendors, and tools
Automation software engineering process
Implementing software engineering best practices to improve productivity
Direct hands-on experience with either generative-AI software engineering technologies and processes in scopes such as:
Implementing and using generative-AI coding assistants in software engineering
Implementing generative-AI backed custom software solutions
Expertise and experience in the following areas is advantageous:

Experience delivering products and services with agile methods utilizing DevOps toolchain products, practices, and frameworks.
Experience evaluating and recommending development languages, frameworks, tools and platform
Experience with any of these practices: Design Sprints, Design Thinking, TDD, BDD, Trunk-based development
Experience conducting code reviews to ensure code quality, design standards and architecture patterns are appropriately used.
Experience mentoring junior developers through paired programming or other methods.
The responsibilities and expectations of Gartner’s Software Engineering for Technical Professional Research Director include:

Both hands-on technical knowledge and experience and the ability to see beyond technology to meet business and commercial aims.
Researching and writing 4+ pragmatic research papers per year for our content library
Creating and delivering engaging presentations to audiences ranging from small groups to 500+ attendees
Collaborating with colleagues and providing (and receiving) constructive feedback on research papers
“Strong opinions, loosely held." The ability to take a position based on facts, validate it with colleagues, present it to clients, and to change positions when new information emerges.
Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies and practices.
Ability to identify how changing technologies will influence technology choices and development practices.
Ability to travel up to approximately 10% of the time, mostly within the region (EMEA/NA depending on home base), with some international travel.