IT Officer Architecture

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges
Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.
Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.
ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.
Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.
The Enterprise Architecture department in ITS is seeking to hire an Enterprise Architect with software development background to help support the enterprise architecture function in conducting architecture reviews, technology deep dives, enterprise roadmaps, blueprint, etc. The Enterprise Architect must be capable of understanding business requirements, working with end users, and provide guidance and recommendations in developing and deploying cloud native solutions or enterprise services.
This position requires knowledge and experience with multiple cloud environments as well as experience in requirements analysis, software design, development, testing, and deployment following industry best practices.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibility of this position is to understand and analyze business requirements, underlying solution architecture and design across all architecture layers. Provide observations and recommendations to teams to align their solution architecture based on enterprise strategies, roadmaps, requirements, principles, and standards. Person should be able to work with different stakeholder to guide the creation of enterprise grade architecture and design leveraging approved standard technologies and services. Person will be responsible to solution design to meet business requirements and lead team to build, deliver business applications.
The specific roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: