IT Officer, Business Solutions I

COMPANY PRESENTATION

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
- The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development.

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**Description**
- 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.

**ITS Vice Presidency Context**:

- 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.

**Unit Context**:
**Responsibilities**
- Responsible for interfacing with product owners, business analysts, solutions engineers, and clients to recognize business needs and translate them into a technical solution.
- Responsible for identifying what framework / platform, or technologies to be used for any business need.
- Responsible for identifying key patterns and common services and expand them to core platforms for reuse in similar solutions.
- Responsible for systems architecture design and providing high / low level documentations.
- Interface with multiple functional and technical teams to better understand the requirements and priorities.
- Prepare designs documents, technical and end-user documentation and contribute to product roadmap.
- Participate in work groups/ SCRUM meetings to come up with the design and release plans for projects.
- Analyze issues and determine alternative or creative solutions to add value to the business and ensure client satisfaction.
- Plan and schedule work program deliverables including resources and timelines using the appropriate SDLC methodologies including agile and SCRUM.

**Selection Criteria**
- Master's degree in Computer Science with 5 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Advanced knowledge of HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Advanced knowledge of CSS pre-processors such as LESS and SASS, frameworks like Bootstrap
- Familiarity with security implementations like (XSS, CSRF prevention, etc.)
- Exposure to Java/J2EE technologies from an integration perspective
- Experience in developing micro services (using lightweight APIs) that can be utilized to allow bidirectional integration using RESTful interface.
- Experience with Application Performance and EUM tools like Azure App Insights and Adobe Analytics.
- Experience in Agile/SCRUM based development and collaborate with Product Managers and Desi