IT Officer, Business Solutions - Application Solution Architect
Washington D.C.
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Operations and Administrations
- Information Technology and Computer Science
- Sustainable trade and development
- Sustainable Business Development
- Closing Date: 2025-09-04
IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
The mission of the Corporate Information Technologies Department (CIT) is to use technology to enable IFC’s strategic priorities and to support business and operations. By acting as the technology partner and business enabler, the department provides state-of-art IT solutions to support IFC’s operations.
CIT is looking for an experienced Application Solution Architect who will perform the full range of responsibilities as those relate to systems architectures and designs and should meet the organization's needs, while ensuring security, compliance, and optimal performance and cost efficiency.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Architect, design and implement highly scalable, available, and fault tolerant systems in the Cloud (AWS and Azure) and on-prem.
• 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.
• Promote the usage of enterprise standard technologies to ensure a cohesive technical ecosystem.
• 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 for IFC
• Define transition approaches and roadmaps for migrating legacy systems
• Lead the definition and elaboration of technical strategies and patterns
• 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.
• Conduct architecture reviews and impact assessments on detailed designs submitted by implementation teams
• Identify opportunities for innovation.
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Before applying, please make sure that you have read the requirements for the position and that you qualify.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.