Executive Partner - Advisory for Enterprise IT Leaders - Applications/Software E

Executive Partner – Enterprise IT Leaders (EITL) – Applications/Software Engineering– Public Sector

About this role:

Enterprise IT Leaders (EITL) is an executive-level advisory service that delivers expert insight and guidance tailored to each member's context and most critical initiatives. EITL consists of 7 areas of expertise (domains) that cover several areas within IT: Applications, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure & Operations, Program & Portfolio Management, Security & Risk, Sourcing & Vendor Management.

Gartner’s Executive Partners team consists of 178 EP’s globally who specialize in one of the 7 domain areas and equip business leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow.

What you’ll do:

• Manage approximately 30 member relationships ensuring value is delivered during the subscription period. These members have Enterprise Application Leader and/or Software Engineering Leader roles and typically report directly to the CIO.
• Leverage your subject matter expertise along with Gartner’s intellectual property and the Enterprise Applications/Software Engineering peer community to deliver value to your members.
• Align your work with your members to the overall objectives of the CIO or enterprise in order to ensure your focus is on the highest priority initiatives. Track and report value delivered.
• Drive and participate in all phases of the member lifecycle: Understand what is most important for your member, align those initiatives to enterprise or CIO initiatives, engage and deliver value, capture the value as delivered, articulate the value delivered to the member and decision maker and utilize your learning, teaching and coaching skills during the process.
• Responsible for member retention/renewal of the subscription based service.
• Host and /or participate in periodic onsite member activities including workshops, presentations, roundtables and webinars for your members.
• Collaborate with other Leadership Partners in the Enterprise Applications domain to improve the team’s effectiveness and drive innovation as the domain matures and evolves.

What you’ll need:

• Experience with the DoD required; Active TS - SCI Clearance preferred
• DC area preferred;
• A university graduate (Masters preferred)
• 15+ years of experience including having full responsibility for a portfolio of enterprise applications and the application lifecycle including strategizing, architecting, selecting, deploying, operating, evolving, and retiring those applications.
• Direct reporting to a CIO acting as the Director or VP of Enterprise Applications or Leader of Software Engineering
• Critical thinking and problem solving to assess member situations and provide actionable outcome based advice.
• High tolerance / evolved ability to lead and manage ambiguous situations.
• Excellent relationship building skills including experience working with Sr. Executives.
• Excellent listening and verbal communication skills.
• Experience coaching and mentoring senior executives.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.

Subject Matter Expertise:

We are looking for an individual who has held the role of Director or VP of Enterprise Applications and has had ownership of the full lifecycle of the application portfolio including strategizing, architecting, selecting, deploying, operating, evolving, and retiring those applications along with demonstrated knowledge of software trends, and emerging best practices for both front-end and “full stack” product design and development and ability to formulate and articulate technology and business adoption scenarios that help Senior technology leaders assess the opportunities, risks, and best approaches for modernizing their software engineering organization. Equally important is having a management consulting background. Experience leading large scale ERP programs that have enabled business transformation is highly desirable. Involvement in digital transformation initiatives and journeys from a project oriented focus to a product oriented one is also a plus.

In addition we are looking for people with experience/expertise with modern enterprise application lifecycle management approaches, including:

• Moving from a Project to Product Focused Organization
• Leading a Product Organization
• Building Digital Platform(s)
• Transforming Solution Delivery (Agile, Dev Ops, Design Thinking)
• Customer Experience (Sales, Service, Digital Commerce)
• Application Strategy
• Application Rationalization
• Application Organizational Design
• Business Value Realization
• ERP Transformation Initiatives
• Cloud First Initiatives

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