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
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. 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 130 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 www.worldbank.org
ITS Vice Presidency Context:
The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w
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 is responsible for providing core accounting solutions for the World Bank Group staff that are in around 185 countries across the world. The major areas include applications in the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger and Asset accounting business processes to support the operations of World Bank Group Finance & Accounting, Treasury and Development Finance Vice presidencies.
Job Opportunity
ITSFT is looking for an experienced Business Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of advanced business solutions on Azure, focusing on application engineering, data modeling, and secure cloud engineering practices. The role demands extensive expertise in the financial domain, particularly in building tools and frameworks for AI and data science applications on Azure, with exclusive experience in developing generative AI applications that meet WBG security, compliance and performance standards.
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.
• 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.
• Oversight of the contractual resources that support existing financial applications on SAP and cloud.
• 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
• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Data and AI Architect, with a proven track record in application engineering, data modeling, and AI solutions on Azure.
• Proficiency in Azure, Power BI, semantic modeling, and financial reporting. Extensive experience in building tools and frameworks for AI and data science applications.
• 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.
• Ability to act sensitively in multicultural environments and build effective working relations with internal and external partners.
• Highest ethical standards.
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer
In addition to the above mandatory requirements, the following are highly desired-