Sr Architect

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:
Senior Architect (AI/ML/Data) position having experience in architecting scalable, robust, and secure data and AI/ML solutions for enterprise environments. This role demands strong leadership, strategic vision, and hands-on technical skills to drive innovation and deliver business value through advanced analytics and intelligent systems.

What you'll do:

• Deliver client engagements that use AI rapidly, on the order of a few weeks
• Build proofs of concept rapidly, to learn and adapt to changing market needs
• Support building internal applications for use by associates to improve productivity
• Design, architect, and oversee implementation of end-to-end AI/ML and data solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Lead the development and deployment of machine learning models, data pipelines, and analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical architectures.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks for data engineering, machine learning, and AI initiatives.
• Guide and mentor data scientists, engineers, and other team members in best practices and technical excellence.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop strategies for data acquisition, storage, processing, and visualization.
• Optimize existing systems for performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends in AI, ML, data engineering, and cloud technologies.
• Present architectural solutions and roadmaps to senior leadership and business

What you'll need:
12-15 years of experience in classic AI techniques and at least 1.5 years in generative AI techniques at production level. Demonstrated ability to run short development cycles and solid grasp of building software in a collaborative team setting.

Must have:

• Experience building applications for knowledge search and summarization, frameworks to evaluate and compare performance of different GenAI techniques, measuring and improving accuracy and helpfulness of generative responses, implementing observability.
• Design, architect, and oversee implementation of end-to-end AI/ML and data solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Lead the development and deployment of machine learning models, data pipelines, and analytics platforms.
• Optimize existing systems for performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Experience with agentic AI frameworks, RAG, embedding models, vector DBs
• Experience working with Python libraries like Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Numpy, and Scipy is required.
• Experience deploying applications to cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.
• Solid grasp of building software in a collaborative team setting - use of agile scrum and tools like Jira / GitHub.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex projects.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Who you are:

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner to IT Leaders and business stakeholders.
• Effective time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communications skills interacting with technical and business audiences.
• Excellent organization, multitasking, and prioritization skills.
• Must possess a willingness and aptitude to embrace new technologies/ideas and master concepts rapidly.
• Intellectual curiosity, passion for technology and keeping up with new trends.
• Delivering project work on-time within budget with high quality.
• Demonstrated ability to run short development cycle.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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