Lead Software Engineer (Python, LLM) AskGartner

About the Role

AskGartner is building toward becoming the AI-powered strategic advisor for enterprise clients a product that puts the full depth of Gartners research proprietary data and expert knowledge at clients fingertips. As a Lead Engineer on the AskGartner core platform team you will be a key technical force shaping the chat and embedded AI experiences that serve as the products primary surface. This role demands an engineer who can independently drive complex initiatives end-to-end make sound architecture decisions and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality scalable solutions.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end from requirements and design through delivery and post-launch iteration with minimal guidance.

• Own architecture and design decisions for complex systems demonstrating strong judgment on scalability reliability and maintainability.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively across engineering teams product managers and stakeholders to align on technical direction.

• Mentor and elevate fellow engineers through thoughtful code reviews design discussions and knowledge sharing.

• Lead solutioning sessions and proactively surface technical risks trade-offs and recommendations.

• Serve as a technical point of contact for cross-functional teams articulating complex engineering decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Core Expectations

• Self-motivated and hands on professional operates independently completes work without follow-ups and navigates ambiguity and challenges with minimal assistance.

• Proactively picks up design development tasks drives them to completion and communicates progress and blockers without prompting.

• Participates actively in solutioning contributes ideas and raises issues early.

• Adaptable and eager to learn our team uses a wide array of technologies and the right candidate embraces new tools with confidence.

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable supporting production releases.

Technical Skills

Core / Must Have (All Required)

• Python expert-level proficiency

• Python backend services: development APIs deployment and scaling

• Python FastAPI and asynchronous programming

• Cloud technologies: AWS (primary) Azure

• AWS SageMaker Pipelines (end-to-end ML workflows)

• Python unit testing (pytest)

• Git

• AWS S3 and data formats (Parquet JSON CSV)

• PostgreSQL / SQL

• Pandas

Strong Preferred (Should Have Most)

• LangGraph / LangChain

• Large language models (e.g. OpenAI Anthropic Google)

• Load testing frameworks (e.g. Locust JMeter)

• AWS Athena

• AWS S3 (bucket policies) IAM roles and policies

• Splunk

• AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store

• AWS EMR (PySpark-based ETL)

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Terraform

• OpenSearch / Search Engine indexing retrieval (RAG systems)

• Cache technologies

Nice to Have (Willing to Learn)

• AWS Kinesis (live structured log ingestion to S3)

• AWS SQS

• AWS Glue (data catalog crawlers)

• AWS QuickSight

• SonarQube

• Jenkins / Groovy

• Argo CI/CD

• Snyk

What you will get:

• Competitive compensation.

• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.

• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses development programs technical courses certification opportunities and more!

• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.

• A chance to make an impact your work will contribute directly to our strategy.

• Hybrid Work Environment - enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.

• 20 PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.

• Extensive medical dental insurance and vision plan.

• 401K with corporate match immediate vesting.

• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.

• Parental leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Gartner Gives Charity Match.
  And much more!

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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 weve grown to 20000 associates globally who support over 13000 client enterprises in 90 countries and territories. We do important interesting and substantive work that matters. Thats 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 youll 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. Youll 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.

Its 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 thats reshaping the way we operate. If youre passionate about AI and want to be part of a team thats guiding the leaders who shape the world Gartner is the place for you.

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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 its productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful engaging and inspiring.

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