Lead Software Engineer - Java fullstack

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.

About this role

As a Lead, you will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering complex data-driven solutions that transform our business. You will lead a team focused on developing analytical insights, recommendation engines, and specialized algorithms, while proactively identifying new opportunities to leverage data science for enhanced business outcomes. With our position as a leading digital marketplace and access to millions of client reviews and insights, you will have unparalleled opportunities to apply advanced data science techniques.

Your responsibilities will span a wide and evolving range, requiring versatility, adaptability, and strategic leadership as you build and scale data science capabilities at CIT. As part of the Gartner family, you will benefit from access to industry-leading research and best practices in analytics and data science, empowering you and your team to deliver more engaging, relevant content for software buyers and to drive higher quality leads for software sellers.

What you will do:

• Team Guidance & Support: Mentor and support a team of skilled software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Strategic & Technical Oversight: Provide hands-on technical leadership and strategic direction for the team's projects, overseeing the design, development, and implementation of robust web-based applications and services using technologies such as Java, Spring, React/Python, and PostgreSQL.

• Architectural Leadership: Drive architecture and technical design discussions, ensuring solutions are scalable, performant, and aligned with long-term strategic goals.

• Project Execution: Help manage project timelines, resources, and deliverables within an Agile Scrum environment, supporting efficient execution and high-quality outcomes.

• Quality Assurance & Best Practices: Champion best practices in software development, including leading code reviews, peer inspections, and the creation of comprehensive technical design specifications, ensuring maintainability and operational excellence.

• Innovation & Research: Stay informed about the latest advancements in web technologies, distributed systems, and data science, guiding the team to continuously improve application design and implementation.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate extensively with product management, data science, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and enhancements, and to align technical solutions with business needs.

• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate complex technical insights, project status, and strategic plans to diverse stakeholders through reports and presentations, influencing decision-making.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience in software development.

• 6–8 years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 1-2 years in a technical lead role, leading software development or data science teams in an Agile Scrum environment.

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers, including experience with hiring, performance management, and career development.

• Deep expertise in building and deploying complex, scalable web applications and services, demonstrated as a Full Stack Developer with proficiency in React, Java, Spring (Spring Boot, Spring JPA), and distributed systems.

• Strong proficiency in Java and extensive experience with frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring JPA.

Who you are

• Graduate/Postgraduate in BE/B tech, ME/MTech or MCA are preferred.

• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.

• Able to work independently or within a team proactively in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.

• Owns success – Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions.

• Ardent desire to improve upon their skills in software development, frameworks, and technologies.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

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Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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