Associate Senior Solutions Architect

Associate Senior Solutions Architect

Job #: req38924 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology Grade: GG Term Duration: Open-Ended Staff (OPEN-OP) Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/11/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At 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 www.worldbank.org
VPU 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 WBG Corporate Solutions Department (ITSCO) is focused on the digital transformation of essential corporate services to ensure WBG operations are seamless, resilient, and future ready. Uniting digitalization roadmaps, experience design, process optimization, application delivery, systems management, and technology modernization across 70+ products, the department links business ambition with operational excellence - from intuitive employee experiences and precision payroll to data-driven decision making, intelligent automation, and AI enablement.
The Corporate Digital Acceleration unit accelerates digital transformation for corporate business functions through design thinking, digital innovation, rapid prototyping, reimagining processes, and AI enablement, e.g. AI-first work digitalization strategies.
Role Purpose:
The Associate Senior Solutions Architect will translate the vision for reimagined corporate services, personalized workspaces, and mobile experiences into secure, scalable, integrated, and intuitive solution architectures for an AI-enabled and increasingly agentic future. The role will lead architecture from discovery through delivery, turning business and user needs into coherent designs across applications, data, integration, AI, automation, infrastructure, and networks.
It will guide key technical decisions, embed enterprise standards and responsible AI principles, and strengthen architecture practices to ensure solutions are resilient, reusable, responsible, maintainable, and deliver lasting value to Corporate users across the World Bank Group.
Duties and accountabilities:
• Solution Architecture and Technology Evaluation: Lead end-to-end architectures for personalized digital workspaces, mobile apps, and corporate digital services, translating business, user, and product needs into secure, scalable, integrated solutions. Evaluate technology options, dependencies, risks, trade-offs, nonfunctional requirements, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Digital Experience and Mobile Solutions: Architect intuitive, responsive, accessible, and personalized experiences across web and mobile, addressing iOS native and hybrid approaches, app distribution, identity, personalization, notifications, integration, device capabilities including offline and AI, performance, and consistent cross-channel experiences. Balance user experience with reuse, maintainability, cost, and sustainability.
• Responsible AI and Intelligent Automation: Architect secure and governed AI, agentic, data, and automation capabilities that enable personalized, contextual, and proactive services. Ensure appropriate data, integration, identity, security, monitoring, governance, and human oversight.
• Technical Leadership and Architecture Assurance: Guide multidisciplinary teams from prototype through deployment, resolve architectural issues and dependencies, and ensure delivery aligns with approved architectures and enterprise standards. Promote reusable patterns, modern engineering practices, and effective management of exceptions and technical debt.
• Stakeholder Alignment and Value Realization: Work across business, product, design, engineering, security, and technology teams to align architectural decisions and trade-offs, and ensure solutions deliver measurable improvements in user experience, service delivery, adoption, performance, risk, and cost.
• Competence and Practice: Coach and develop peers and junior staff, strengthen cross-team collaboration, and contribute to high-performing global teams through knowledge-sharing, clear accountability, and continuous improvement of solution architecture practices.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering fields with at least eight years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s degree with at least ten years of progressive experience, in information technology, Mobile and advanced technologies or engineering, or equivalent combination of education or experience.
• At least seven years of proven experience developing and maintaining large-scale corporate solutions, mobile apps, personalized digital workspaces, employee applications, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated hands-on contribution to production solutions, including personal coding, prototyping, integration, troubleshooting and deployment responsibilities.
• Experience leading complex delivery across internal staff, vendors and globally distributed teams in environments with strong governance, security and operational requirements.
• Sense of Urgency: Anticipates client needs, responds quickly to changing priorities, makes timely decisions, removes obstacles, and drives solutions forward while balancing immediate needs with long-term value.
• Business-savvy change Leadership: Demonstrated drive to act as a change agent, challenge ineffective practices constructively, align diverse business and technical stakeholders, and help teams adopt new solutions and ways of working with clarity and confidence.
• Intellectual Agility: A sharp, curious, and practical thinker who learns quickly, asks the right questions, uses evidence well, takes ownership, and follows through on commitments to deliver meaningful business value.
Certifications:
• Required: Agile or scaled-Agile certification (SAFe for Architects (ARCH, SAFe® DevOps, SAFe POPM), Certified Solutions Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)
• Recommended: TOGAF, IDEO U Design Thinking Certificate/Business Innovation Certificate; Digital Transformation certification.

As the World Bank Group continues to evolve, we value candidates who:

• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, cultures, and institutional boundaries.
• Responsibly leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity, learning, and decision-making.
• Bring experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, and violent (FCV) contexts and are encouraged to highlight relevant experience in their application materials, where applicable.

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

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.