IT officer, Data Engineering Solutions

IT officer, Data Engineering Solutions (Finance Data Mart)

Job #:

req34203

Organization:

World Bank

Sector:

Information Technology

Grade:

GF

Term Duration: 2 years 0 months

Recruitment Type:

Local Recruitment

Location:

Chennai,India

Required Language(s):

Preferred Language(s):

English

Closing Date:

9/17/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. Established in 1944, the World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit 
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. 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.
As a unit within the ITSFI department, ITSFT unit enables key functions of the WBG Finance and Accounting vice-presidency and its corporate partners such as financial management, payments and disbursements, new lending product deployment, financial accounting, institutional analytics, and external reporting. The unit also operates and evolves WBG ERP and the external client digital banking platform and supports WFA financial technology innovation.
Domain: Corporate Finance & Accounting
Strategic Context
Investments in the Corporate Finance and Accounting Domain will enable the scale-up of WBG operations by integrating key outcomes from the Aria, Libra, and blockchain initiatives. These investments will support the Evolution Roadmap priorities by enhancing operational efficiency by simplifying business processes to enable more efficient use of funds and improving financial controls. The World Bank Group's Finance ERP modernization project will enhance financial management capabilities, reduce operational risk, and increase agility. Project Libra will modernize the Bank's loan ecosystem, streamline and automate loan processes, and incorporate innovations such as AI, OCR, and Blockchain, ensuring greater flexibility, scalability, and adaptability. Adopting blockchain technology will optimize and digitize end-to-end business processes, providing full traceability, immutable audit trails, and efficient data management. These strategic initiatives will position the WBG at the forefront of financial innovation, promoting sustainable development and financial stability.
Key Priorities 
1. ARIA – ERP renewal 2. LIBRA – loans landscape renewal 3. FUNDSCHAIN – disbursement traceability 4. Use of Artificial Intelligence to gain efficiency
Roles & Responsibilities
The World Bank's Finance IT unit is seeking a dynamic, highly skilled, and motivated full stack data professional with deep expertise in data engineering to drive the modernization and optimization of our financial data platforms and delivering actionable insights for the Finance business teams. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing existing data pipelines and solutions using Informatica PowerCenter and design/build new pipelines and solutions leveraging a modern data stack including Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2), Dremio, Power BI, Python-based ETL/ELT, and Azure Data Factory (ADF) with particular focus on Capital Markets and Lending data. This role is primarily technical, requiring deep expertise in data engineering, integration architecture, and data platform operations. The incumbent will be expected to gain and apply practical domain understanding over time to deliver robust, compliant solutions that meet business needs.
Key Responsibilities
1. Data Engineering & Architecture (Hands-on Leadership)
• Lead the hands-on design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure, high-performance data pipelines and architectures leveraging:
• Informatica PowerCenter for enterprise ETL/ELT design, development, administration, performance tuning, and migration.
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) for data lake storage and governance.
• Dremio for data virtualization and semantic layer enablement.
• Python and SQL for data processing, automation, and operational tooling.
• Architect and implement end-to-end pipelines using Azure Data Factory (ADF), orchestrating batch and real-time ingestion from diverse financial sources (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv/Reuters, transactional systems, risk analytics platforms).
• Integrate Azure cloud-native services (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics) to enable real-time and event-driven processing patterns.
• Pilot and evaluate new technologies (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Databricks) to enhance lakehouse capabilities, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data quality, lineage, observability, and governance aligned to World Bank and industry standards.
2. Analytics Platform Enablement (Plus/Value-Add)
• Enable analytics use cases by designing curated datasets and robust dimensional/semantic models that support self-service consumption.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports in Power BI as needed, emphasizing technical excellence in data modeling and visualization; analytics delivery is a plus competency for this role.
• Apply exploratory data analysis and basic statistical methods to validate data quality and generate actionable insights for stakeholders when required.
3. Technical Leadership & Mentorship
• Mentor and guide data engineers and data integration developers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead cross-functional technical squads, ensuring effective communication, realistic scoping, and timely delivery of milestones.
• Serve as a bridge between data engineering and analytics teams, ensuring infrastructure, models, and SLAs meet analytical and operational needs.
4. Domain & Data Knowledge Development
• Proactively deepen practical understanding of capital markets data, processes, and products (trade lifecycle, securities, derivatives, market data, regulatory reporting).
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical designs and support regulatory and management reporting needs.
• Continuously expand domain expertise to improve solution relevance and impact.
5. Data Governance, Security, and Compliance
• Implement and enforce technical data governance controls, ensuring privacy, security, lineage, cataloging, and compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Collaborate with data stewards and governance bodies to maintain high standards of data integrity, availability, and accessibility.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree in Engineering, Finance, or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience; or Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on data engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Proven, hands-on expertise with Informatica PowerCenter:
• End-to-end ETL/ELT development (mappings, workflows, sessions), repository management, versioning, job orchestration.
• Performance tuning, pushdown optimization, partitioning, and high-volume data processing.
• Administration and operations (upgrades, patches, security, scheduling, monitoring).
• Strong experience architecting and operating data platforms with ADLS Gen2, Dremio, Azure Data Factory, Python, and SQL.
• Demonstrated experience with real-time/event-driven ingestion and processing using Azure native services (Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics).
• Solid understanding of data modeling (dimensional, relational), metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, manage projects, and communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and compliance best practices.
Desired Qualifications (Strong Plus)

• Proficiency with Power BI (DAX, semantic modeling, dashboard development) and data visualization best practices.
• Experience with Lakehouse technologies and big data frameworks (Apache Iceberg, Spark, Databricks).
• Familiarity with additional BI and data prep tools (Tableau, Alteryx) and enabling self-service analytics.
• Exposure to AI/ML use cases in finance (e.g., anomaly detection, predictive analytics) and MLOps integration patterns.
• Experience in international development finance or public sector financial systems.
• Good understanding of capital markets processes, products, and data flows.
Required Job Competencies:   
• Deliver Results for Clients: Proactively addresses clients' stated and unstated needs Adds value by constantly looking for a better way to get more impactful results; sets challenging stretch goals for oneself. Immerses oneself in client experiences and perspective by asking probing questions to understand unmet needs.

• Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries: Collaborates across boundaries, gives own perspective and willingly receives diverse perspectives Appropriately involves others in decision making and communicates with key stakeholders. Approaches conflicts as common problems to be solved. Actively seeks and considers diverse ideas and approaches displaying a sense of mutuality and respect.

• Lead and Innovate: Develops innovative solutions. Contributes new insights to understand situations and develops solutions to resolve complex problems. Adapts as circumstances require and manages impact of own behavior on others in context of WBG's values and mission. Identifies and pursues innovative approaches to resolve issues.

• Create, Apply and Share Knowledge: Applies knowledge across WBG to strengthen solutions for internal and/or external clients. Leverages department's expertise and body of knowledge across WBG to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions. Seeks to learn from more experienced staff to deepen or strengthen their professional knowledge and helps others to learn.

• Make Smart Decisions: Interprets a wide range of information and pushes to move forward Seeks diversity of information and inputs, researches possible solutions, and generates recommended options. Identifies and understands risks and proposes recommendations. Based on risk analysis, makes decisions in a timely manner within their own area of responsibility, considering the interests and concerns of stakeholders.

• Client Understanding and Advising: Looks at issues from the client's perspective and advocates for clients within own area as well as urges others to focus on meeting client needs. Works with others across the VPU to define client needs and develop the best approach to meet client needs. 

• Learning Orientation: Stays abreast of new trends and developments in own specialty area as well as what is occurring in the broader industry. Experiments with new approaches and alters normal procedures. Tracks developments in the field through readily available sources and by maintaining active involvement with relevant industry, user and vendor associations.

• Broad Business Thinking: Maintains an in-depth understanding of the long-term implications of decisions both for related areas within the VPU and the client's business. Involves the key players in identifying operating needs, issues and immediate solutions. Business Process Knowledge: Describes and documents critical cross-functional business process flows.
Job Specific Competencies:

• Data Management Analysis and Information Delivery: Identifies means of integrating data management and statistical analysis processes, resources and products with the business processes of the organization. 

• Database Knowledge: Applies understanding of logical and physical design principles to routine database maintenance activities. Identifies data components and data sources. Identifies data security, recovery and integrity procedures with regards to own business function databases

• Data Integration: Able to interpret data flow diagrams and source to target specifications. Implements and supports data feeds in data integration tools.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense
of Urgency – Anticipating and quickly reacting to the needs of internal
and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful
Risk Taking – Taking informed and thoughtful risks and making courageous
decisions to push boundaries for greater impact.
3. Empowerment
and Accountability – Engaging with others in an empowered and accountable
manner for impactful results.

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.

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