Sr Manager, Software Engineering; Java, AWS, API

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 responsible for design, implementation, and support of web‑based applications to help fulfill our Consulting & Insights Technology strategy. This role also collaborates across business and technology teams and helps the development team create modular, performance‑centric architectures for 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 and integration‑test, and support applications.
• Take end‑to‑end responsibility for leading projects focused on performance, modular, extensible web applications.
• Demonstrate 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 documentation for work products.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to resolve business process issues and identify improvement opportunities.
• Resolve all assigned issues in a timely manner.
• Own 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 among the team and other project participants.
• Evaluate developers post‑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 with a relational database.
• Knowledge of integration and web services technologies (HTTP, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON).
• Experience building scalable data models and performing complex PL/SQL queries (Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL, etc.).
• Experience with AWS Cloud services such as EKS, Lambda, SQS, Open Search.
• Experience with Dev Ops using continuous integration/continuous deployment tools like Jenkins, Argo, monitoring tools.
• Experience with Scrum methodology.
• Experience in all phases of a systems development lifecycle and a proven track record in leading the design and deployment of large‑scale solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of object‑oriented design fundamentals with a strong background in architecting software applications.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and clear, concise communication that resonates with different audiences.
• Proactively prioritize tasks and dependencies to avoid roadblocks.
• Inspire and motivate a team to achieve shared goals and drive strong business outcomes.

• Experience with Salesforce CRM integration and/or agentic AI integration.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible scripts.
• Working knowledge of containers like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of enterprise search platforms such as Apache Solr or Elasticsearch.
• Graph and No
  
  SQL database knowledge such as Neo4j, Mongo
  
  DB.
• Familiarity with web analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics).

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field (required).
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work independently or…