Associate Senior Enterprise Architect

Job #: req35933
Organization: World Bank
Sector: Information Technology
Grade: GG
Term Duration:  3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 3/24/2026 (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
Department Context
The World Bank Group Technology Office (ITSTO) defines and executes the technology strategy for the World Bank Group, ensuring that technological investments and standards deliver secure, resilient, and efficient platforms to support global operations. Through strategic planning, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and core infrastructure management, ITSTO aligns technology initiatives with the Bank Group’s mission and business objectives.
ITSTO drives technology-enabled innovation, modernizes infrastructure, and enhances organizational agility. By fostering collaboration across all World Bank Group entities—including IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID—ITSTO leverages technology as a catalyst for accelerating development impact and advancing digital transformation. Its leadership ensures that technology serves as a strategic enabler for achieving the Bank Group’s development goals, empowering the institution to address emerging challenges and opportunities with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Unit Context
The Enterprise Architecture (ITSET) unit enables strategy execution by connecting business goals with technology investments, frameworks, and delivery models. ITSET ensures coherence, interoperability, and business value realization through standards, reference architecture, and governance. The unit drives portfolio alignment, process optimization, and adoption of data-driven practices across the WBG.
Duties and accountabilities: 
The Associate Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Architecture has deep expertise in data architecture and proven experience in translating business strategy into architectural solutions. The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong capabilities in solution, application, data, cloud, and infrastructure architecture domains. Key responsibilities include: contributing to the extension of EA metamodel, supporting the EA repository management activities, reporting on technology and application KPIs, maintaining business and IT capability models, managing enterprise-wide technical debt, and advancing the technology and governance program with focus on open-source initiatives. The candidate must excel at creating architectural blueprints that align business objectives with technology solutions while ensuring integration across all architecture domains.
The role requires a hands-on approach in a multicultural environment which supports diversity, continuous learning, enhancing skillsets, and collaboration. The ideal candidate must demonstrate excellent communication skills as the position requires frequent interaction with multiple cross-functional teams. The candidate must possess a strong sense of curiosity, adaptability, and the drive to learn and innovate. 
We provide a meaningful, open, and collaborative environment. We have many interesting problems to solve, providing you an opportunity to develop your skills while contributing to the mission of the bank. We value teamwork, openness, curiosity, and persistence.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Data Architecture Leadership
1. Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture strategies, standards, and principles that align with organizational digital transformation goals and the WBG mission.

2. Create and govern enterprise data models including conceptual, logical, and physical data architectures that ensure consistency and interoperability across the organization.

3. Design reference architectures for modern data platforms including data lakes, data mesh, real-time streaming, event-driven architectures, and API-first data access patterns.

4. Lead the development of synthetic data generation frameworks to enable privacy-preserving testing, AI/ML model training, and secure third-party data sharing.

5. Establish data architecture patterns for cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, leveraging AWS, Azure, and other enterprise platforms.
Strategic Planning & Governance
1. Contribute to the extension and management of the EA metamodel for data architecture, ensuring it adapts to evolving enterprise needs while maintaining architectural integrity.

2. Support EA repository management activities to enable effective documentation, analysis, and reporting of data architecture assets and their relationships.

3. Define and track data architecture KPIs to measure effectiveness of data initiatives, technology investments, and business value delivery.

4. Lead technology rationalization efforts for data platforms to optimize the enterprise data landscape and reduce technical debt.

5. Participate in architecture governance boards, providing data architecture expertise and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
CDO Partnership & Collaboration
1. Partner with CDO teams to ensure data governance policies are architecturally enabled and technically implementable across the enterprise.

2. Collaborate on enterprise data quality frameworks, providing architectural guidance for monitoring, profiling, and remediation capabilities.

3. Work with data engineering teams on automated data lineage solutions that support impact analysis and regulatory transparency requirements.

4. Support data lifecycle management initiatives including retention policies, archiving strategies, and cost-optimized storage architectures.

Innovation & Thought Leadership
1. Evaluate emerging data technologies and architectural patterns including data fabric, data mesh, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven data management.

2. Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to validate data architectural approaches and emerging technologies for enterprise adoption.

3. Foster knowledge sharing through communities of practice, focusing on data architecture best practices and open-source adoption.

4. Guide solution architects and development teams in applying enterprise data architecture principles, patterns, and standards.

5. Develop architecture communication strategy including training, documentation, and stakeholder engagement for data initiatives.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree with 8 years of experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, or related discipline; OR Bachelor's degree with 10 years relevant experience.

• Enterprise Architecture certification required (TOGAF, EACOE, or equivalent issued by The Open Group).

• Data-specific certifications strongly preferred: CDMP (DAMA), AWS Data Analytics Specialty, Azure Data Engineer, or equivalent.

• Cloud certification is a plus (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or GCP equivalent).

Core Competencies:
Drive Data Architecture Excellence
• Proactively identify and address data architecture needs across business units and data domains

• Develop innovative data solutions with measurable business impact and clear value articulation

• Ensure data architectures balance functionality, security, privacy, sustainability, and risk management
• Champion data quality, integrity, and trust as foundational principles
Foster Cross-Domain Collaboration
• Facilitate collaboration across EA, CDO, business units, and IT teams on data initiatives

• Drive consensus on data architecture decisions through stakeholder engagement and influence

• Navigate organizational complexity to deliver integrated data solutions

• Build trusted partnerships between strategic architecture and operational data teams

Lead Data Innovation
• Develop innovative data patterns for emerging use cases including AI/ML, real-time analytics, and data products

• Contribute strategic insights to enterprise data transformation initiatives

• Adapt architectural approaches to evolving data technologies and business needs

• Champion emerging data technologies and architectural best practices

Strategic Data Leadership
• Support development and execution of enterprise data strategy aligned with business objectives

• Identify strategic data investments and initiatives that drive organizational value

• Align data architecture roadmaps with cloud transformation and digital strategies

• Evaluate emerging data technologies for strategic advantage

Knowledge Leadership
• Apply data architecture best practices across enterprise initiatives leveraging DAMA DMBOK, TOGAF, and industry standards

• Mentor solution architects, data engineers, and technical teams on data architecture principles

• Build networks within data architecture community and industry groups

• Contribute to data architecture body of knowledge through publications, presentations, and community engagement

Job Specific Competencies:
• Client Understanding and Advising: Understand data needs from client perspective, advocate for data-driven solutions, and work across VPU to define requirements and appropriate data architecture approaches.

• Data Architecture Knowledge: Deep expertise in enterprise data modeling, data integration patterns, master data management, and modern data platform architectures. Ability to create and govern data standards and guidelines.

• Learning Orientation: Stay current with data technology trends including data mesh, data fabric, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven data management. Experiment with new approaches and maintain industry engagement.

• Broad Business Thinking: Understand long-term implications of data architecture decisions for business operations. Create business cases for data investments and ensure stakeholder alignment.

• Data Governance Acumen: Understand data governance frameworks, data quality principles, and regulatory requirements. Partner effectively with CDO teams on governance implementation.

• Knowledge of Emerging Technology: Evaluate emerging data technologies and determine impacts on current data architecture and infrastructure. Lead technology pilots and proof-of-concepts.

• Strategic Technology Planning: Research data architecture needs, provide input to strategic planning, and identify options for data platform investments and optimization.

• Systems Thinking: Understand relationships between data, business processes, applications, and technology platforms. Design integrated solutions that optimize the whole system.

• Risk Management: Identify data-related risks including privacy, security, quality, and compliance. Develop risk treatment plans and monitoring processes.

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.

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