IT Officer, Business Solutions - Application Solution Architect - req32467

IT Officer, Business Solutions - Application Solution Architect

Job #: req32467

Organization: IFC

Sector: Information Technology

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: International Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s)

Closing Date: 4/8/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. 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 looking for an experienced Application Solution Architect who will perform the full range of responsibilities as those relate to systems architectures and designs and should meet the organization's needs, while ensuring security, compliance, and optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Architect, design and implement highly scalable, available, and fault tolerant systems in the Cloud (AWS and Azure) and on-prem.
• 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.
• Promote the usage of enterprise standard technologies to ensure a cohesive technical ecosystem.
• Build, maintain key architectural artifacts and ensure alignment with architectural guidelines, best practices, and blueprints
• Lead and/or take part in deep-dive education and design exercises along with technical discussions to create 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
• Engage with project teams to provide technical guidance while ensuring alignment with defined architectural blueprints.
• Conduct architecture reviews and impact assessments on detailed designs submitted by implementation teams
• Identify opportunities for innovation.
  
  

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 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 DevOps (Azure DevOps) principles, practices, and tools
• Development experience in .Net Core and modern UI frameworks such as React
• 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.
• Must have detailed knowledge of major implementation 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, white-boarding, large and small group presentations is highly desired.
• Experience of delivering systems thru Agile methodology
• Experience of architecting, designing, and developing product-based solutions and systems.
  
  

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.