Senior Director Analyst - Identity and Access Management

Sr. Director Analyst, Identity And Access Management

Why This Opportunity is Right for You: You are passionate about identity and access management and appreciate how it is foundational to cybersecurity and a key enabler of digital interaction. You are a visionary thought leader who enjoys learning and wants to leverage their technical expertise in designing and executing IAM projects to drive the evolution of industry best practices as part of Gartner's global Business and Technology Insights (BTI) team. You enjoy collaborating with other smart people.

Subject Matter Expertise: The Sr. Director Analyst will apply in-depth knowledge of identity and access management technologies, technical capabilities of products/services, and deployment best practices to client engagements and to authoring insightful advice for executives and their teams. There will be a focus on providing guidance to clients on architecture, technical capabilities, and deployment for some of the following technologies and topical areas:

• Access management protocols, standards, and methodologies
• Agentic AI identity and access management tools and best practices
• User, workload and machine identity authentication mechanisms and products
• Federated identity and other technologies for Single Sign-On
• Secrets management technologies and product capabilities
• Identity threat detection and response architecture, tools, and capabilities
• Identity governance and lifecycle processes
• Privileged access management techniques and tools
• Customer IAM processes and capabilities
• Authorization policy frameworks, orchestration, and enforcement
• Authorization controls for data and analytics access
• Identity analytics and related automation of IAM processes
• De-centralized identity mechanisms, verifiable credentials and use cases

What you'll do:

As a Gartner analyst, you will engage with clients every day: on the phone, in a videoconference, or from the stage at a Gartner event. In every client interaction, analysts help clients solve difficult puzzles that lead to better performance. To support these conversations you will research technology, practices, and trends to produce research for Gartner clients to view online or download and apply.

• Conduct research and analysis in specific areas of expertise targeting client's key questions to create thought leading insights.
• Deliver high-quality actionable advice and strong positions through a variety of media.
• Write high-quality, clear, practical, advisory research s and reference architecture documents.
• Remain ahead of the curve on developments and issues within these specified areas as well as applicable adjacent areas.
• Respond to client questions, create materials for, and deliver to clients via teleconference, video conference or webinar and event presentations
• Grow Gartner's industry leadership reputation by responding to press inquiries
• Conduct occasional travel, regionally and globally

Kindly note this is an individual contributor role, not a management role with direct reports.

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 technical architecture and trends, deployment best practices, standards, and frameworks, etc. and be able to see patterns and articulate technical strategies that create new best practices. Most Gartner analysts have many years of experience and enjoy helping people find creative solutions to challenges.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (i.e., Computer Science or Engineering), or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant field or industry experience, with 12 or more years in technical roles specific to Identity and Access Management
• The ability to demonstrate technical expert presence and immediately establish credibility with cybersecurity and identity leaders and their teams
• The ability to produce high-quality deliverables and consistently meet project milestones
• Strong communication skills, to include: written and verbal proficiency in English, public speaking acumen, and 1:1 client engagement
• Adept in analyzing and synthesizing data, identifying trends and patterns, and applying frameworks to create new insights
• Skilled at distilling complex concepts into concise advice, and successful at developing and defending research positions
• A self-starter who is a continuous learner and can work both independently and collaboratively within a matrixed, multicultural global team