Sr Manager, Software Engineering

About Gartner IT

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.

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering position responsible for design, implementation, and support of web-based applications to help fulfill our Consulting & Insights Technology strategy. This role is also responsible for effective collaboration and communication across business and technology teams, along with helping the development team to create modular and performance-centric architectures to create seamless integrations with multiple applications.

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of application developers, engineers, designers, and product stakeholders to deliver innovative technology solutions.
• Design, implement, unit test, integrate test, and support applications.
• Have end-to-end responsibility for leading projects focused on performance, modular, extensible web applications.
• Demonstrate a deep knowledge of Java frameworks and best practices.
• Lead the review and analysis of business requirements to create technical specifications.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, peer inspections and technical design/specifications.
• Prepare and provide adequate (quality and quantity) documentation for work products.
• Work with cross-functional teams to resolve business process issues and identify business process improvement opportunities.
• Take responsibility for resolving all issues assigned in a timely manner.
• Own the development of application architecture and delivery of technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Ensure that all applications conform to system and programming standards and are appropriately documented.
• Perform support and maintenance tasks to address production issues reported by business users.
• Manage formal and informal project communication amongst team and with other project participants using methods appropriate to the audience and type of communication.
• Evaluate developers after project completion, identifying strengths and areas for development via a formal, written performance appraisal.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in software development. 10+ years' experience in web-based application/software design and development.

• High quality and on-time business initiative delivery experience by collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Direct people management experience.
• Strong knowledge of software development using Java EE/Spring, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React and PL/SQL experience with a relational database.
• Knowledge of integration and web services technologies (HTTP, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON).
• Experience building scalable data models and performing complex relational database queries using PL/SQL (Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL).
• Experience with AWS Cloud services such as EKS, Lambda, SQS, Open Search etc.
• Experience with Dev Ops using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Argo, monitoring tools.
• Experience with Scrum software development methodology.
• Experience in all phases of a systems development lifecycle and leading the design and deployment of large-scale solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of software development and object-oriented design fundamentals with a strong background in architecting software applications.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and clear, concise communication by adapting delivery to resonate with different audiences.
• Proactive work toward prioritizing tasks and dependencies to avoid roadblocks.
• Ability to inspire and motivate the team to achieve shared goals and drive strong business outcomes.

• Experience with Salesforce CRM integration and/or agentic AI integration.
• Hands-on experience writing Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible scripts.
• Working knowledge of containers like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of enterprise search platforms such as Apache Solr or…