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IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development
institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in
more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to
create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year
2021, IFC committed a record $31.5 billion to private companies and
financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the
private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as
economies grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more
information, visit www.ifc.org
The mission of the Corporate Information Technologies Department
(CIT) is to use technology to enable IFC’s strategic priorities and to
support business and operations. By acting as the technology
partner and business enabler, the department provides state-of-art
IT solutions to support IFC’s operations.
CIT is seeking an experienced IT professional to augment the
Application Solution Architecture function within the IFC’s
Architecture and Technology unit (CITAT).
Requirements
• Build a strong solution architecture practice, aligned with the WBG
enterprise architecture strategies, principles and to guide the
implementation of all IFC’s systems.
• Ensure sound architectural practices are adopted and applied
within the IFC IT program that would lead to optimization of the IFC
IT landscape, applying such approaches as re-use, knowledge
sharing, outsourcing and standardization.
• Establish and maintain robust coordination with multiple teams
across CIT delivery portfolios, infrastructure, Office of Information
Security, Enterprise Architecture, Database administrators, project
managers, portfolio PMOs, innovation initiatives, subject-matter
experts, and various business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain architecture and design blueprints for
strategic/transformation programs and products in alignment with
organizations IT Strategy, WBG approved technology stack and
implemented based on industry best practices, guidelines, and
standards.
• Architect, design highly scalable, available, and fault tolerant
systems in the Cloud (AWS and Azure) and on-premises.
• Lead the technical engagement for defining and documenting
application architectures aligned with enterprise standards,
guidelines, and best practices.
• Ensure solution architectures for enterprise solutions drive
efficiencies, improve performance and reliability, increase
innovation, and reduce costs. These solution architectures could be
cloud-native, on-premises or leverage a hybrid cloud model.
• Ensure solutions leverage industry standard enterprise integration
technologies to integrate disparate systems on-premises, in the
cloud and across cloud providers.
• Build, maintain key architectural artifacts and ensure alignment
with architectural guidelines, best practices, and blueprints.
• Lead and/or take part in deep-dive session and design exercises
with various stakeholders across CIT and ITS to envision and
blueprint enterprise grade solutions for IFC.
• Define transition approaches and roadmaps for migrating legacy systems.
• Lead the definition and elaboration of technical strategies and
patterns.
• Develop and deliver compelling presentations and demos to
achieve buy-in from relevant stakeholders and to communicate the
same to implementation teams.
• Conduct technical reviews and impact assessments on solution
designs submitted by implementation teams.
• Translate business requirements into technology requirements for
inclusion in contracts and/or statements of work (SOW).
• Lead engagements to provide technical quality oversight at
various points throughout a project lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities for innovation.
Selection Criteria
• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience in
Computer Engineering or relevant area or Master’s degree with a minimum
of 8 years relevant experience.
• Cloud certification offered by AWS/Azure is required.
• Ability to grasp high level concepts to create technical solutions to meet
business needs.
• Self-starter with a track record in learning and applying technologies.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to
analyze problems and identify the root cause.
• Extensive experience and very detailed knowledge of Cloud Computing;
infrastructure, services, products, best practices, and standards; as these
relate to virtual machines, databases, integration, CDN, performance and
monitoring, security, auto-scaling, scalability, elasticity.
• Experience and knowledge with modern authentication, authorization
frameworks and technologies.
• Experience and knowledge of DevSecOps (Azure DevOps) principles,
practices, and tools.
• Development experience in .Net Core and modern UI frameworks such as
React is preferred.
• Experience and knowledge in implementing containerized applications in
either AWS or Azure cloud environments.
• Experience and knowledge in implementing solutions that leverage
business process, workflow management and document management
capabilities.
• Experience in implementing enterprise grade solutions leveraging
languages such as .Net and Java.
• Experience and knowledge in SQL and non-SQL databases; Oracle, MS
SQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the
ability to work effectively across internal and external teams and virtual
teams.
• Excellent oral and presentation skills – Formal presentations, whiteboarding, large and small group presentations is highly desired.
• Experience of delivering systems using Agile methodologies
• Experience of architecting, designing, and developing product-based
solutions and systems
Benefits
World Bank Group Core Competencies
The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement
plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including
parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with
disabilities.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a
dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on
gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or
disability.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values
and inspiring stories.
