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. Visit www.worldbank.org.
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:
The Operations Solutions (ITSOP) is a unit within the Operations & Corporate department (ITSOC) that provides state-of-art information and technology applications to support the business needs of Operations and Corporate VPUs. The unit focuses on modernizing product processing platform through enhanced business alignment, process simplification & integration, and improved team productivity. The ITSOP’s application portfolio spans across different business process including Fiduciary Management, Safeguards, Operations Financing, ASA, TF Reform as well as other Client Engagement and Corporate applications. We collaborate with our clients to define product vision, strategy, roadmap, business processes aligned with business objectives while ensuring a stronger product culture and value proposition. We are committed to delivering business solutions that deliver value for money while we continue to excel at the basics. And we contribute to providing the Bank with an integrated digital platform that connects policies, processes, people, and knowledge across the institution in a holistic and staff-centric manner.
ITSOP is seeking an IT Officer, Business Solutions (Solutions Architect) with expertise in modernizing application portfolio to adopt cloud-native solution architectures, including JavaScript, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Node.js, Gulp.js and Azure platforms including Dynamics 365, C#, SQL server, Azure based PaaS & SaaS services (ASE, Azure AD, Azure Functions, Azure Analysis Services etc.) REST APIs, Service Bus, Java/J2EE and BPM solutions.
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