Senior Director Analyst, Security Architecture – Cloud Security

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About the role

  • Senior Director Analyst focusing on Security Architecture and Cloud Security at Gartner. Delivering insights, strategies, and research for global organizations' security needs.

Responsibilities

  • Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have insight” content
  • Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act
  • Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a client’s barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward
  • Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing research positions across a team of analysts
  • Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a Insights agenda
  • Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights
  • Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions
  • Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings
  • Support BTI and Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help Insights teams create content and to drive engagement with clients to make progress against their critical priorities to grow their business
  • Provide high quality and timely content peer review
  • Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner research, methodology and strategy
  • Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and Insights discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community
  • Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and BTI provide excellent service delivery
  • Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members
  • Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred
  • 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience in a security architecture/engineering/operations or technology related role.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Strong business and financial acumen
  • Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market.
  • Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicultural global team
  • Learning agile and adept with navigating highly matrixed environments
  • Ability to represent Gartner's research methodology and strategies effectively at all levels
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Charity match program
  • Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • 401K matching and more!

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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