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%