Senior Director Analyst – IAM & AI

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 and creative problem solver 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 identity architects, executives and their teams.

There will be a focus on providing guidance to clients on architecture, technical capabilities, and deployment for these areas:

• Identity analytics and automation of identity and access management (IAM) processes
• Agentic AI IAM tools and best practices
• Modernizing overall IAM architecture
• Microsoft AD operations, migrations and resiliency
• Architecting IAM data management
• Authorization controls for data and analytics access

Expertise in the following areas is a plus

• User, workload and machine identity authentication mechanisms and products
• Multi-agent ecosystems
• Identity discovery, observability and visibilities tools and best practices
• Credential lifecycle management
• Secrets management technologies and product capabilities
• Identity threat detection and response architecture, tools, and capabilities
• Customer IAM processes and capabilities
• Authorization policy frameworks, orchestration, and enforcement
• De-centralized identity mechanisms, verifiable credentials and use cases
• Federated identity and other technologies for Single Sign-On
• Access management protocols, standards, and methodologies
• Identity governance and lifecycle processes
• Privileged access management techniques and tools

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 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.