Senior Director Analyst - IAM - IGA PAM & Agentic AI

Why This Opportunity is Right for You

You are passionate about identity and access management and appreciate how it is foundational to cybersecurity and a key enabler of digital interaction. You are a visionary thought leader who enjoys learning and wants to leverage your technical expertise in designing 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.

The Sr. 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 for executives and their teams. There will be a focus on providing guidance to clients on architecture, technical capabilities, and deployment for these areas:

• Identity governance and lifecycle processes
• Privileged access management techniques and tools
• Identity analytics and related automation of IAM processes
• Agentic AI identity and access management tools and best practices

Expertise in the following areas 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
• Authorization controls for data and analytics access
• De‑centralized identity mechanisms, verifiable credentials and use cases
• Identity discovery, observability and visibility tools and best practices

As a Gartner analyst, you will engage with clients every day: on the phone, in a video conference, or from the stage at a Gartner event. In every client interaction, analysts help clients solve difficult puzzles that lead to better performance. To support these conversations you will research technology, practices, and trends to produce research for Gartner clients to view online or download and apply.

• Conduct research and analysis in specific areas of expertise targeting client’s key questions to create thought‑leading insights.
• Deliver high‑quality actionable advice and strong positions through a variety of media.
• Write high‑quality, clear, practical, advisory research and reference architecture documents.
• Remain ahead of the curve on developments and issues within these specified areas as well as 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.

It helps to be obsessed with your topic! Gartner analysts are correctly viewed as THE experts. This means you need to know technical architecture and trends, deployment best practices, standards, and frameworks, etc. and be able to see patterns and articulate technical strategies that create new best practices. Most Gartner analysts have many years of experience and enjoy helping people find creative solutions to challenges.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (i.e., Computer Science or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant field or industry experience, with 12 or more years in technical roles specific to Identity and Access Management.
• The ability to demonstrate technical expert presence and immediately establish credibility with cybersecurity and identity leaders and their teams.
• The ability to produce high‑quality deliverables and consistently meet project milestones.
• Strong communication skills, to include: written and verbal proficiency in English, public speaking acumen, and 1:1 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…