Senior Consultant

About Gartner Consulting:

Gartner Consulting partners with the world’s leading organizations to help them solve their most critical business challenges and drive growth through actionable market insights, advanced analytics, and strategic recommendations. Our teams work globally with clients, delivering industry-leading solutions in a collaborative, diverse, and innovative environment.

What makes Gartner Consulting a GREAT fit for you?

A career at Gartner Consulting will be unlike any other you have experienced. Not only are we passionate about technology and its applications, we are also committed to attracting the most creative, talented, and driven people to take our world-renowned Gartner Consulting to a whole new level. When you join Gartner, you will be a part of some of the most innovative business and technology efforts in the marketplace today. We are technology thought leaders for the 21st century. You can expect to connect technology innovations to strategic requirements of an organization and to the commercial needs of a business, all within the context of a changing digital economy. Consulting associates enjoy a collaborative work environment, exceptional training, and career development opportunities. If you thrive on solving complex business challenges with technology, Gartner Consulting is the place for you.

About this role:

You would be part of the global consulting delivery team of Gartner Consulting advising IT and business leaders on cost optimization, develop comparative insights and create new capabilities and market opportunities for some of our large customers across North America, EMEA and Japan regions. As a consultant in the India consulting team your role would be to deliver consulting engagements for our clients as part of global team by demonstrating strong technology industry experience, business acumen, great learning attitude, problem solving and consultative skill and quality of execution.

What you’ll do: 

• Apply expert guidance and tools on consulting engagements to enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s most critical priorities.

• Articulate findings and implications on client software delivery techniques and provide fact-based recommendations for improvements.

• Provide actionable, objective insights and recommendations within Enterprise Architecture including definition of target state architecture, stakeholder management, risk management, solution design and transition strategies

• Demonstrate strong understanding of leading application design and architectural principles and best practices, hands on experience in large scale IT landscape.

• Make high impact client presentations with compelling story board, hypothesis and visualization to deliver actionable recommendations.

• Collaborate with internal practice and industry leaders to contribute in reusable solutions, proposals and Points of Views (POVs).

• Work as an individual contributor to deliver complex engagements

What you'll need:

• 7+ years of total work experience in a consulting or industry role with 4+ years of dedicated experience operating within an Enterprise Architecture function.

• Experience across the architecture lifecycle and set of services, for example:

  • Developing technology strategies

  • Developing business aligned architecture visions / concepts

  • Options development and assessment considering financial implications

  • Technology Portfolio optimisation

  • Technical design and delivery assurance & governance

  • Solution design & delivery

  • Architecture capability uplift – e.g. training junior or client architects, designing architecture processes

• Practical experience in applying and tailoring enterprise architecture frameworks and techniques (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF) to suit varying client environments.

  • Comfortable with at least 2 architecture domains – Business, Data, Applications, Tech / Infrastructure & security

  • Experience with solution architecture and software development is preferred

• Willingness to drive capability development of Gartner’s Enterprise Architecture offering

• Knowledge of leading-edge and emerging technologies that drive modern architecture such as cloud-native platforms, microservices, continuous availability, integration platforms, and mesh application and service architecture.

• Strong foundational knowledge across multiple architecture domains, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, API strategy, ERP ecosystems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), and data architecture

• Experience in managing end-to-end large-scale technology bids including requirement gathering, RFP/RFI development, market scan & vendor profiling, vendor evaluation, bid support during due diligence and BAFO phases

• Strong technical capabilities coupled with the ability to clearly communicate the business value and bottom-line impacts of technology decisions to a non-technical audience.

• Customer facing experience – delivering presentations, workshops and working sessions will be an added advantage.

• Strong Excel, analytical, and visualization skills including PowerPoint.

• A passion for client service and excellence in delivery that includes attention to detail and ability to prioritize.

Who you are:

• Passionate about technology and helping clients in the time of industry disruption led by technology evolution.

• Possess a curious and inquisitive mindset, with innovation excellence being a key driver and motivator.

• Flexible in outlook, and willing to participate in different projects as per business requirements.

• An effective team player and collaborator who thrives in a dynamic and quick paced environment.

• A go-getter who tackles business and technical challenges head on, with a consulting inclination.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including team management, issue resolution, negotiation, and relationship management.

What does Gartner Consulting offer?

• Work with best-in-class consulting team spread across globally, exposure into solving most critical problems of world’s largest clients.

• Unparalleled learning opportunity through Gartner Research to always be on the cutting edge of technology evolution.

• Opportunities to be part of a growth company and help shaping the future growth of Gartner Consulting in India.

• Opportunities for vertical and horizontal professional growth within a well-defined career progression path.

• A dynamic and supportive working environment that encourages personal development, learning, collaboration, and mentoring.

• A competitive salary and structured bonus based on individual and corporate performance.

About Gartner:

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s most critical priorities. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Visit gartner.com to discover more.

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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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