Senior Director Analyst – Security Architect – Endpoint Protection SME - Remote Europe

Senior Director - Technical SME – Endpoint Security

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:

• Present best practices and emerging trends to security technical professionals in 1:1 virtual meetings and Conferences
• Conduct research and analysis in specific areas of expertise targeting client’s key
• Write high quality, clear, actionable, advisory research documents.
• Remain ahead of the curve on developments and issues within these specified areas as well as applicable adjacent areas.
• Maintain the Gartner’s industry leadership reputation by responding to press inquiries.
• Work with the wider sales organization and deliver outstanding sales support in order to retain and grow the business.
  
  

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.

Technical subject matter expertise in Endpoint Security specifically with a focus on the following:

• Endpoint protection platforms (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR)
• Ransomware prevention, detection and response
• OS Security
• Malware protection
• Solid knowledge of adjacent technologies to keep endpoints secure, including Secure Web Gateways (SWG), Security Service Edge (SSE), and email security.
• Knowledge of the global landscape, and the competitive interplay between incumbents, emerging providers, disruptors, and outsourcers.
• Analytical skills, applying conceptual models, recognizing patterns while drawing and defending conclusions.
• Minimum of 10 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.
  
  

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 insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 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 sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. 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.

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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