## About the Role

Gartner’s Technology Strategy Consulting team is hiring a Consulting Associate Director to lead client engagements focused on IT infrastructure and technology-enabled business outcomes. The role combines project delivery oversight, client relationship management, and senior advisory work for commercial and government organisations.

This position focuses on infrastructure strategy, transformation, modernization, and cloud/hybrid architecture. It requires someone who can work hands-on, manage multiple priorities, lead teams, and develop practical solutions using Gartner’s frameworks and methodologies.

## Key Responsibilities

– Lead the delivery and oversight of consulting engagements.
– Manage senior client relationships and advise on strategic and tactical technology decisions.
– Lead and motivate teams made up of technical and non-technical professionals.
– Assess networks, servers, and cloud environments against long-term business objectives.
– Contribute to infrastructure strategy, modernization, transformation, and data centre migration programmes.
– Support cloud architecture, hybrid architecture, and data centre topology decisions, including edge-related designs.
– Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, ITSM, IT Services and Operations, ITIL, DevSecOps, and FinOps.
– Develop solutions, strategies, rapid prototypes, and presentation or sales proposal materials.
– Apply Gartner frameworks and methodologies to client challenges.

## Required Skills

– Experience in a well-regarded management consultancy in a project delivery role.
– Broad IT infrastructure experience covering:
– Infrastructure strategy
– Infrastructure transformation programmes
– Cloud architecture
– Hybrid architecture
– Data centre migration strategy and programmes
– Infrastructure as Code
– ITSM
– IT Services and Operations
– ITIL
– DevSecOps
– FinOps
– Infrastructure modernization
– Knowledge of scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions that integrate on-premise hardware with cloud platforms.
– Ability to evaluate networks, servers, and cloud environments against long-term business goals.
– Track record of leading people and building high-performing teams.
– Ability to inspire technical and non-technical professionals toward a common goal.
– Strong written and verbal communication skills.
– Excellent people skills and client relationship management experience.
– Experience developing client business relationships within a commercial organisation.
– Intellectual curiosity and the ability to develop creative solutions to client problems.
– Hands-on approach with the ability to manage multiple client priorities simultaneously.
– Experience with strategic consulting frameworks.
– Ability to adapt Gartner frameworks and methodologies to client challenges.
– Ability to build rapid prototypes for presentations and sales proposals.

## Preferred Skills

– MBA or other advanced degree.
– Prior experience in a problem-solving role such as a solution architect, technical architect, or analyst.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

**Cloud & Infrastructure**
– Cloud platforms
– Cloud environments
– Cloud architecture
– Hybrid architecture
– On-premise hardware
– Data centre topology
– Edge
– Data centre migration
– Networks
– Servers
– Mainframe
– Digital architecture

**Operations & Delivery**
– Infrastructure as Code
– ITSM
– IT Services and Operations
– ITIL
– DevSecOps
– FinOps

## Benefits

– World-class benefits.
– Highly competitive compensation.
– Additional rewards for top performers.
– Hybrid working with flexibility to work virtually when productive and meet with colleagues in person.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to combine senior consulting, client leadership, and hands-on infrastructure advisory work. It covers cloud, hybrid, modernization, and FinOps-related topics, with a focus on practical technology decisions that support business outcomes. You would also work within Gartner’s research-led consulting environment and contribute to engagements for commercial and government clients.