Director Analyst - Identity Governance and Administration
Listed on 2026-07-07
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity
Director Analyst - Identity Governance and Administration
Why This Opportunity is Right for You: You are passionate about identity and access management and appreciate that it is foundational to cybersecurity and a key enabler of digital interaction. You are a visionary thought leader who enjoys learning, solving problems, and wants to leverage their technical expertise in architecting and executing IAM projects to drive the evolution of industry best practices as part of Gartner's global Business and Technology Insights (BTI) team.
You enjoy collaborating with other smart people.
Subject Matter Expertise: The Director Analyst will apply in-depth knowledge of identity and access management technologies, technical capabilities of products/services, and deployment best practices to client engagements and to authoring insightful advice and presentations for executives and their teams. The focus areas are:
- Identity governance and lifecycle processes
- Identity analytics and related automation of IAM processes
- Agentic AI identity and access management tools and best practices
- Privileged access management techniques and tools
Expertise that is a plus:
- Access management protocols, standards, and methodologies
- User, workload and machine identity authentication mechanisms and products
- Federated identity and other technologies for Single Sign-On
- Secrets management technologies and product capabilities
- Identity threat detection and response architecture, tools, and capabilities
- Customer IAM processes and capabilities
- Authorization policy frameworks, orchestration and enforcement
- De-centralized identity mechanisms, verifiable credentials and use cases
- Crypto agility and scanning
- Conduct research and analysis in specific areas of expertise targeting client’s key questions to create thought‑leading insights.
- Deliver high‑quality practical advice and strong positions through a variety of media.
- Write high‑quality, clear, actionable, advisory research documents and reference architecture documents.
- Remain ahead of the curve on developments and issues within these specified areas and applicable adjacent areas.
- Respond to client questions, create materials for, and deliver to clients via teleconference, video conference or webinar and event presentations.
- Grow Gartner's industry‑leadership reputation by responding to press inquiries.
- Conduct occasional travel, regionally and globally.
Kindly note this is an individual contributor role, not a management role with direct reports.
What you’ll need: Using technical architecture and trends, deployment best practices, standards, and frameworks.- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (e.g., Computer Science or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant field or industry experience, with 8 or more years in technical roles specific to Identity and Access Management.
- Ability to demonstrate technical expert presence and immediately establish credibility with cybersecurity and identity leaders and their teams.
- Ability to produce high‑quality deliverables and consistently meet project milestones.
- Strong communication skills, including written and verbal proficiency in English, public speaking acumen, and one‑to‑one client engagement.
- Adept at analyzing and synthesizing data, identifying trends and patterns, and applying frameworks to create new insights.
- Skilled at distilling complex concepts into concise advice, and successful at developing and defending research positions.
- A self‑starter who is a continuous learner and can work both independently and collaboratively within a matrixed, multicultural global team.
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