Consultant – Applications, Infrastructure and Security Modernization

About Gartner Consulting:

Gartner Consulting partners with the world’s leading organizations to help them solve their most critical business challenges and drive growth through actionable market insights, advanced analytics, and strategic recommendations. Our teams work globally with clients, delivering industry-leading solutions in a collaborative, diverse, and innovative environment.

What makes Gartner Consulting a GREAT fit for you?

• Work with top-tier consulting professionals on high-impact projects for Fortune 500 clients.

• Access to cutting-edge research, data, and technology.

• Opportunities for continuous learning, career advancement, and professional growth.

• A culture that values collaboration, innovation, and diversity.

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and recognition for your contributions.

About this role:

You would be supporting the global consulting delivery team of Gartner Consulting advising IT and business leaders on application strategy, develop comparative insights, create new capabilities, and market opportunities for some of our large customers across North America, EMEA and Japan regions.  Your role would be to support consulting engagement for our clients as part of extended global team by demonstrating strong analytical mindset, business acumen, great learning attitude, problem solving and consultative skill and quality of execution.

What you’ll do:

• Support application strategy engagements by working on development of application modernization roadmaps, application rationalization and ensuring alignment with software delivery best practices.

• Articulate findings and implications on client software solutions and infrastructure and provide fact-based recommendations for improvements.

• Demonstrate strong understanding of leading application design and architectural principles and best practices, hands on experience in large scale IT landscape.

• Make high impact client presentations with compelling story board, hypothesis and visualization to deliver actionable recommendations.

• Collaborate with internal and client leaders to contribute to creation of reusable solutions, proposals and Points of Views (POVs).

• Contribute to project management, quality assurance, and best practices within the team.

What you’ll need:

• 3-5 years of total work experience in application strategy, technology modernization, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or related roles (consulting firm experience preferred).

• Strong foundational knowledge across architecture domains, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, API strategy, ERP ecosystems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), and data architecture.

• Knowledge of leading-edge and emerging technologies that drive modern architecture such as cloud-native platforms, microservices, continuous availability, integration platforms, DevSecOps, and mesh application and service architecture.

• Experience with application/software development lifecycle (requirements, development, testing, deployment), including agile (preferred), hybrid, and waterfall methodologies.

• Knowledge of assessment and implementation of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO, etc.).

• Fluency in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong PowerPoint skills for data storytelling and client presentations.

• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and thrive in a fast-paced, global consulting environment.

Who you are:

• Passionate about exploring software delivery verticals like development, infrastructure and cybersecurity

• Analytical, detail-oriented, and results-driven with a strong problem-solving mindset.

• Self-starter with a passion for learning, technology, and consulting.

• Collaborative team player with strong intercultural communication skills.

• Flexible, adaptable, and resilient in managing ambiguity and shifting priorities.

• Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and a commitment to high-quality work.

• Motivated to grow within consulting and contribute to Gartner’s and clients’ success.

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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 business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 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 vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. 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.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

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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