Lead Software Engineer (python, LLM) - Askgartner

Lead Engineer, AskGartner Core Platform Team

AskGartner is building toward becoming the AI-powered strategic advisor for enterprise clients — a product that puts the full depth of Gartner's 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 product's 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!

Job Requisition ID:110236