E T Consultant (Associate Software Engineer), Washington, DC

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd

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

Unit Context:

The Risk and Analytics team has embarked on a journey to streamline data management which is cloud based. The target is to achieve a sing source of truth w.r.t. data for all Finance complex needs. This data platform will be used for many different provisioning in terms of data usage.

Our IT strategy is designed to align IT initiatives with the WBG business strategy and with the overarching objective of ensuring that users have uniform and easy access to information and systems, both from Washington and country offices. This position has to be a technically sound candidate around cloud technology and data management principles.

The candidate will be expected to:

• As a multinational, multicultural institution, success at WBG requires the ability to negotiate and facilitate trade-offs and build consensus and commitment to a recommended direction among multiple stakeholders, with broadly divergent frames of reference. The candidate must also embrace and foster respect for all, including diversity in age, gender, and national origin.
• Successful candidate must possess the highest personal and professional integrity, as demonstrated through strong personal values, as well as consistent words and actions. He or she must build and sustain strong collegial working relationships with other units of the ITS and the World Bank Group, and be comfortable approaching others assertively, responsibly, and supportively.
• Technically very strong in cloud technologies, data management principles and able to individually deliver developed and tested components
• Hands-on experience in ADLS, Parquet, Python and Dremio is an absolute must (Certifications are highly advantageous)
• Exposure to Fixed income treasury business functions specifically around portfolio risk is required

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Clearly define the scope/solution of both Capital and RTB related projects and initiatives
• Capture, analyze and organize business requirements into a logical order.
• Prioritize requirements based on business needs.
• Develop software components
• Contribute toward technical discussion in arriving at new solutions
• Identify and document all non-functional requirements.
• Create business process maps and data flow diagrams.
• Communicate business requirements to business area experts and technical/development staff.
• Lead the identification and documentation of business metrics.
• Determine systems of record with the assistance of appropriate source system experts
• Help identify potential sources of data for the data repository.
• Oversee testing of data acquisition processes and their implementation.
• Help data modelers prepare models and review data models to ascertain that requirements are met.
• Participate in application testing, including unit testing, integrated testing and functional testing.
• Providing recommendations for business improvements, system enhancements and workflow changes.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Agile development experience
• Industry certification or academic credentials in software development
• Extensive experience in working with data, SQL and scripting.
• Application support experience on a vast landscape that includes demanding user base
• Experience in performing “segregation of duties” activities on a production landscape
• Experience in conducting structured interviews and in eliciting key information to capture business requirements for IT systems development.
• Relevant experience in providing IT-enabled solutions to financial institutions.
• Strong expertise in business/technical process improvement and re-engineering and identifying gaps between “As-is” and “To be” states
• Experience in working with data and business process modeling tools
• Up-to-date, best practice experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Proven business judgment: Ability to distinguish between what is and is not critical, and to balance both strategic and short-term issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Highest ethical standards
• Personal Integrity & Effectiveness demonstrated commitment to teamwork

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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