Director, Conference Tech Platform Integration

Gartner

Director of Software Engineering at Gartner overseeing C-level Communities tech platform integrations. Responsible for ensuring seamless integration and high-quality enterprise solutions with a global team.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeIrving • Connecticut, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $128,000 - $189,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJava.NETRubySDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead GCC Engineering: Lead a cross regional engineering team to deliver innovative solutions while fostering ownership, accountability, and high performance.
Drive Platform Integration: Execute the conference platform integration roadmap, influence technology direction, and ensure successful delivery in an agile environment.
Enable Engineering Excellence: Strengthen SDLC rigor, platform architecture, and engineering discipline, embedding responsible AI practices to deliver secure, scalable, and future ready enterprise solutions.
Partner & Lead Change: Partner with Conference business and IT leaders to align technology solutions to strategic priorities, and lead change to ensure successful adoption of new platforms, processes, and ways of working.
Champion Quality: Drive a quality first culture leveraging AI powered, responsible SDLC practices that improve reliability, scalability, and delivery efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education: Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science or related field.
Experience: 12–15 years in software engineering, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
Technical Expertise: Strong execution background in enterprise platform integrations, cloud architecture (AWS), Object oriented programming – .NET/Java/Ruby, and expertise in building enterprise ‑ scale API ‑ centric and event driven platforms.
Experience leveraging AI powered features within digital platforms to deliver personalized, intuitive user experiences and to improve user engagement and elevate attendee experiences.
Leadership Skills: Proven ability to manage distributed teams and drive organizational change.
Ability to collaborate across IT and business functions to drive innovation.
Preferred: Curiosity and drive for continuous learning. Experience leading large platform integration initiatives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation.
Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!
A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
Parental leave.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Employee Assistance Program.
Gartner Gives Charity Match.
And much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringenterprise platform integrationscloud architectureAWSobject oriented programming.NETJavaRubyAPI-centric platformsevent driven platforms

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationchange managementinnovationaccountabilityownershiphigh performancecuriositycontinuous learningteam management

Certifications

Bachelor’s in computer scienceMaster’s in computer science