IT Office Business Solutions

**IT Office Business Solutions (Azure Data & AI Solutions Architect)**

**Job #**:

- req32808

**Organization**:

- World Bank

**Sector**:

- Information Technology

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 4 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Chennai,India

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 5/4/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

ITS Vice Presidency Context:
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. The ITS mission is to leverage information and technology as a force multiplier to accelerate, deepen, and sustain development impact. ITS is on an Agile transformation journey, reshaping all aspects of the operating model to increase and accelerate value creation.

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.

WBG Finance (ITSFI) is responsible for providing high quality, streamlined information and technology solutions for the World Bank’s Financial services, which include Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Controls, Treasury, Loans, Accounting, and Concessional finance (handling donor contributions from inception to the point of final disbursement, including IDA, Financial Intermediary Funds and Trust Funds). ITSFI is additionally responsible for building its IT services using a shared platform that provides scale, leverage, reliability, and control while at the same time improving responsiveness to emerging business needs. The ITSFI team is accountable for the implementation of the ITS Strategy supporting WBG core finance business processes.

Job Opportunity

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Architect, design and implement highly scalable, available, and fault tolerant systems in the Cloud (Azure) and on-prem that will tightly integrate with SAP S4 HANA, Data lakes and other enterprise systems.- 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 education and design exercises along with technical discussions to create enterprise grade solutions.
- Define transition approaches and roadmaps for migrating legacy systems
- Provide strategic direction in AI and data architecture, guiding the organization towards innovative and effective solutions.
- 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.
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation in AI and data science practices, ensuring the organization remains at the forefront of technological advancements.

**Selection Criteria**
- Master's degree with 5 years relevant experience or bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience-
- Strong background in the financial domain
- Good to have extensive knowledge in SAP, including SAP HANA migration
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams, providing strategic direction and fostering a collaborative environment.
- Good knowledge of information management and information technology including system design, planning, and project delivery management.
- Demonstrated analytical ability and problem-solving skills in translating business requirements into technical requirements/business systems.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly resolve technical problems in complex and time sensitive production systems.
- Ability to express thoughts and ideas effectively in oral and written communications.
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