Software Engineering/Applications Leadership Advisory - Executive Technology Services for Global Enterprises

Gartner is a leading research and advisory company that provides expert analysis and insights to enterprise leaders. The role involves managing a portfolio of clients in the software engineering domain, delivering strategic guidance, and collaborating with other partners to enhance service effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

• You will manage a portfolio of 28-30 clients, typically software engineering and applications leaders reporting to CIOs, from global Fortune 100 – 500 organizations
• As their Executive Partner, you will be delivering value through regular briefings, on-site workshops, roundtables, webinars and by attending relevant Gartner events, etc
• As someone who has previously been in their shoes before, you will use your knowledge and expertise, along with additional Gartner resources and research, to coach and mentor your clients on critical initiatives and challenges for today and tomorrow specifically within the software engineering space
• Leverage your subject matter expertise along with Gartner’s intellectual property and the Enterprise Applications/Software Engineering peer community to deliver value to your members
• Align your work with your members to the overall objectives of the CIO or enterprise to ensure your focus is on the highest priority initiatives. Track and report value delivered
• Drive and participate in all phases of the member lifecycle: Understand what is most important for your member, align those initiatives to enterprise or CIO initiatives, engage and deliver value, capture the value as delivered, articulate the value delivered to the member and decision maker and utilize your learning, teaching and coaching skills during the process
• Responsible for member retention/renewal of the subscription-based service, as a natural outcome of working as a strategic partner and having significant impact on your client’s highest priority objectives
• Host and /or participate in periodic onsite member activities including workshops, presentations, roundtables and webinars for your members
• Collaborate with other Leadership Partners in the software engineering domain to improve the team’s effectiveness and drive innovation as the domain matures and evolves

Requirements:

• A university graduate (Masters preferred)
• 20+ years of software engineering leadership experience including having full responsibility for a portfolio of enterprise applications and the application lifecycle including strategizing, architecting, selecting, deploying, operating, evolving, and retiring those applications
• Direct reporting to a CIO acting as the Director or Leader of Software Engineering or VP of Enterprise Applications
• Critical thinking and problem solving to assess member situations and provide actionable outcome-based advice
• High tolerance / evolved ability to lead and manage ambiguous situations
• Excellent relationship building skills including experience working with Sr. Executives
• Excellent listening and verbal communication skills
• Experience coaching and mentoring senior executives
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Management consulting background
• Experience leading large scale ERP programs that have enabled business transformation
• Involvement in digital transformation initiatives and journeys from a project-oriented focus to a product oriented one
• Experience/expertise with modern enterprise application lifecycle management approaches
• Moving from a Project to Product Focused Organization
• Leading a Product Organization
• Building Digital Platform(s)
• Transforming Solution Delivery (Agile, Dev Ops, Design Thinking)
• Customer Experience (Sales, Service, Digital Commerce)
• Application Strategy
• Application Rationalization
• Application Organizational Design
• Business Value Realization
• ERP Transformation Initiatives
• Cloud First Initiatives