VP - Software Development - Events

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day.

Gartner is looking for a well-rounded Senior Development Manager who can provide leadership for .NET and Java teams for Gartner’s Events business.

• The candidate will be the Chief Technologist for the team which runs Gartner Events customer facing web sites, mobile applications and vendor integrations.
• These include Events Attendee Web Applications, Events Marketing Applications, Vendor applications, Mobile applications, Event Kiosks and integration with back office applications.
• The candidate will be directly responsible for leading a team of C# developers to develop and maintain Gartner Events premier customer-facing web properties.
• The candidate will work with Vendors and other internal teams to provide a full suite of solutions for Gartner’s Events business.
• The ideal candidate will be someone who has worked closely with business partners, has played a key role in building/supporting a customer-facing website, has strong vendor management experience and has demonstrable experience innovating with technology to meet business needs.

Technology Skills:

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience building ASP.NET and C# based external facing web applications. Must be able to support and build Java based applications from a leadership and management standpoint.
• Strong knowledge and implementation experience in C#, Visual Studio, XML and Subversion
• Strong understanding of front end technology skills (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, Angular JS, etc)
• Strong Microsoft SQL Server Database Design/Development skills from an application development standpoint.
• Strong foundation in web application security and managing security across vendor integrations.
• Strong MVC paradigm experience
• Web server: IIS, Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server Enterprise
• Must have strong Web and Mobile Device UI and usability knowledge as well as best-practice skills that include an understanding of globalization and localization
• Candidate will be doing extensive UI feature brainstorming with the business users
• Experience using wireframe and story boarding applications
• Knowledge and experience in building high-performance web sites taking into account a client base which is multi-lingual and dispersed throughout the world
• Demonstrable experience innovating with technology
• Experience integrating with internal Search engines, development/management of web services, managing mobile applications.

Operational Skills:

• Should be able to balance operational and development needs of Gartner Event’s primary web site.
• Should be able to interact well with both internal associates and external clients in resolving operational issues.
• Identify systemic operational issues and resolve them as well as identifying root causes and process improvements to present similar issues
• Must be willing to travel to some of our major events around the world for up to 2-3 weeks at a time. Total travel for year is 10-15%