Associate Director, Data Engineer

About this role:
Gartner's core asset is its people. Our people develop insights, share advice, and create experiences that help our clients be more successful. The People Analytics team derives actionable insight from data to recommend and implement better ways of attracting, developing, and retaining our talent so that we can drive higher sales, more productivity, and better client experiences. We drive impact on Gartner's Mission Critical Priorities by leveraging state of the art technology, analytics, and processes.

Our goal is to increase our analytical capabilities and derive actionable insights into our critical business issues, as well as create a scalable data infrastructure and user-friendly reporting environment that can effectively support our growing company. The Associate Director, Engineering role is a strategic partner within the People Analytics Engineering team responsible for owning the strategy, planning, design, development, and support of our analytics platforms.

We're looking for someone with at least 8 years of total work experience, 5+ years in designing solutions, owning platforms, and driving development projects, and someone with 4+ years in team leadership and people management.

What you'll do:
Lead our People Analytics Engineering team.

• Engage with key stakeholders to help translate business needs into prioritized, technical requirements (user stories) for People Analytics Engineering team to deliver.
• Catalog current analytics and automation processes and recommend best practice methods for improvement and optimization.
• Partner with Head of People Analytics Engineering to create roadmaps and execute project plans in fast-paced agile development environment.
• Partner with the People Analytics Engineering team members to streamline data integration, maintain security and access best practices, and create end-to-end data analytics solutions.
• Initially manage and mentor a team of 2-3 associates supporting Gartner Analytics deliverables.
• Research and recommend technologies and processes to support rapid scale and future state growth initiatives.
• Prioritize Business Needs, Leadership Questions, and Ad Hoc Requests for on-time delivery.
• Manage team JIRA boards and Service Now queues to support team operations, leadership reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Support HR Analytics and Reporting Strategy

• Support the future state of People Analytics at Gartner, including the execution of our multi-year roadmap.
• Lead QA and Data Quality efforts to improve development timelines, reduce bugs, and maintain reliable analytics products.
• Support projects that improve our performance (e.g. Quality of Hire & Future of Work): aligning with product strategy and understanding stakeholder requirements.

What you'll need:

• Strong analytics, automation, and data experience

• 8+ years of working experience.

• Preferably working in HR analytics, data engineering, data analytics and visualization, business intelligence, or analytical consulting
• Experience and skill with data mining methods, data modeling, and working with data warehouses
• Proven ability to use data, analytics, and business knowledge to solve complex business problems.
• Strong experience developing in analytics platforms / visualization tools (PowerBI, etc.), Visier experience a plus
• Proven experience designing analytics and delivery methods to increase accuracy of reporting in an agile environment.
• Strong SQL skills, ability to perform effective querying involving multiple tables and subqueries.

• Preferred experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Data Factory, Data Pipelining, Databricks, Data Transformation, and ETL or similar cloud engineering toolsets.

• Strategic thinker

• Future forward visionary who can not only see where we need to be in 3 years, but who can also develop a compelling, practical approach to how we get there starting tomorrow

• Ability to tell stories with data to senior leadership highlighting team dynamics, celebrating successes, and identifying opportunities for improvement

• Collaboration and people leadership

• 4+ years of effectively managing a team of Engineers, Consultants, or Analysts

• Ability to effectively engage and influence wide range of leaders (from the Operating Committee to Sales Managers) in the development of solutions for Gartner's most critical business initiatives
• Ability to translate strategic vision into actionable plans and make decisions with incomplete or imperfect information

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and effective presentation skills

• Execution focus

• Experienced getting to a v0.5 solution, getting real world feedback, and then iterating to v1.0+ with a continuous improvement mindset

• Successful track record of superior service delivery and change management in a global environment

What you will get:

• Competitive salary, generous paid time off policy, charity match program, Medical, Dental & Vision Plans, Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 401K matching, and more

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 insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 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 sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. 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.

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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