Gartner · 4 months ago
Sr Director Analyst, Cloud Architect for IT Operations (Remote US)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$172K/yr - $202K/yr
12+ years expGartner is a leading research and advisory company, seeking a Senior Director Analyst for their Business and Technology Insights group. This role involves providing expert insights and advice on cloud governance, operations, and architecture to help clients navigate their IT challenges.
Business DevelopmentConsultingInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have insights” content
Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act
Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a client’s barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward
Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing insights positions across a team of analysts
Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda
Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights
Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions
Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings
Support BTI and Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help Insights teams create content and to drive engagement with clients to make progress against their critical priorities to grow their business
Provide high quality and timely content peer review
Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy
Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community
Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and BTI provide excellent service delivery
Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members
Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions
Qualification
Required
12+ years experience in an architect-level role at a mid-sized to large enterprise, focused on cloud, platform engineering, DevOps or SRE
Experience in a technical lead role within a cloud managed service provider (MSP) delivery team
Experience in a technical product management role at a cloud provider, MSP, or IT operations management vendor
Credible technical expertise in the topics they cover, with the ability to connect technology to business goals, and understand the commercial aims of vendors
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write long-form content (15+ page white papers), and develop and deliver presentations to audiences of varying sizes
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to rapidly absorb and concisely summarize information and opinions, detect patterns, and 'think on your feet'
Expertise and expertise in at least one of these areas: Cloud-native operations for IaaS and PaaS in a major hyperscale public cloud provider, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud; Implementing well-governed developer self-service in a major hyperscale cloud provider; Cloud-optimized workload migration to IaaS and PaaS in a major hyperscale cloud provider, with highly-automated operations; Governance of public cloud services
Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders
Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability
Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions
Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges
Strong communicator who is able to explain complex concepts concisely and simply
Subject matter expert comfortable presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements
Strong business and financial acumen
Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market
Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicultural global team
Learning agile and adept with navigating highly matrixed environments
Ability to represent Gartner's research methodology and strategies effectively at all levels
Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable)
Preferred
Experience with VMware virtualization or private cloud is also an advantage
Experience with hybrid cloud implementation or migration from on-premises to public cloud environments is an advantage
Collaborating with Security technical professionals for DevSecOps
Cross-functional collaboration with architects and other technical leaders of product teams or application teams
Communicating with senior management, ideally including not only IT management but also business executives
Working as part of a digital-native team, or as part of a digital transformation team within an enterprise
DevOps platforms and CI/CD pipeline tools, and infrastructure as code
Kubernetes operations
Benefits
Generous PTO
401k match up to $7,200 per year
The opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
Company
Gartner
Gartner provides fact-based consulting services, helping clients use and manage IT to enhance business performance.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$800M2025-11-13Post Ipo Debt· $800M
1993-10-15IPO
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Cliff Gilley
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