Senior Director Analyst, Security Architecture and Cloud Security (Remote North America)

What makes Gartner Research and Advisory a great fit for you?

• You are a team player who values expert insights, bold ideas, and intellectual courage.

• You are always learning and looking to discover what’s next in technology.

• You believe that good technology needs to be balanced with good governance, planning and process.

• You pursue personal excellence through team collaboration and consensus.

If this describes you, Gartner is looking for you! Gartner is an upbeat culture based on collaboration, teamwork, integrity, and objectivity that values creativity and innovation. As a Gartner analyst, you’ll not only help clients solve complex challenges and deliver on key initiatives, but you’ll also grow your career and the scope of your impact across industries. We work hard — and we reward success with exceptional opportunity.

About this role

Gartner Analysts help clients in different industries all around the world address their greatest challenges and continue to innovate through the delivery of best practice research and insights. This role will work with security technical professionals (e.g., security architects, security engineers, security operations managers) to implement and execute best practices.

What you’ll do

As a Gartner analyst, you will be required to be both a thought leader and partner - share frame-breaking ideas but also provide actionable guidance. The expectations of your Gartner peers and clients are the following:

• Develop new research and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act.

• Create innovative, thought provoking, actionable, and highly leveraged “must-have research” content.

• Present best practices and emerging trends to security technical professionals in virtual meetings and conferences.

• Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events and briefings.

• Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the research community.

• Remain ahead of the curve on developments and issues within these specified areas as well as applicable adjacent areas.

What you’ll need

It helps to be obsessed with your topic! Gartner analysts are correctly viewed as THE experts. This means you need to know your technologies, architectures, markets, vendors, trends, management practices, etc. and be able to see the forest and the trees. Most Gartner analysts have many years of experience and enjoy solving puzzles.

• Subject matter expertise and hands-on experience in enterprise security architecture and architecture frameworks such as SABSA and NIST CSF.

• Experience with applying security architecture end-end; from business analysis to technical component selection.

• Subject matter expertise in cloud security, with the ability to demonstrate understanding of the business requirements and opportunities in that market.

• Knowledge of the native security controls for the leading infrastructure-as-a-service providers.

• Knowledge of CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, SSE and related cloud security control technologies as well as container security concepts.

• Knowledge of the global landscape, and the competitive interplay between incumbents, emerging providers, disruptors and outsourcers in the cloud security market.

• Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality deliverables.

• Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability.

• Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions.

• Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges.

• Strong communicator who is able to explain complex concepts concisely and simply.

• Subject matter expert comfortable presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements.

• Demonstrated superior analytical skills, applying conceptual models, recognizing patterns while drawing and defending conclusions.

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in a security architecture/engineering/operations or technology related role.

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience, master’s degree preferred.

• Ability to conduct occasional travel, regionally and globally.