Corporate Data Management – IT Product Owner

Washington D.C. | Chennai

Organization: World Bank Group
Location: Washington D.C. | Chennai
Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
- Statistics
- Information Technology and Computer Science
- Scientist and Researcher
- Public, Private Partnership
Closing Date: 2025-05-04

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

Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.

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.

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.

As a unit within the WB ITS Data Technology Office (ITSD), the Data and Analytics unit (ITSDA) focuses on developing advanced data platforms that improve the Bank's ability to collect, manage, govern, protect, analyze, and disseminate data. The solutions include products for corporate and developmental data management, business intelligence, and cutting-edge analytics. They also offer self-service analytics solutions, which allow users to analyze data without the need for specialized knowledge. The current technology landscape encompasses Cloud-based data platforms (Azure and AWS), Power BI, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP Business Objects, Tableau, Tibco Composite, SAP BW/Hana, Informatica Suite and many others. Our plans are to migrate our on-prem data repositories and re-engineer based on new Cloud architectures in the coming years.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a seasoned and dynamic data professional with strong data management and engineering skills to lead a team of high performing data architects, analysts, and data engineers.

The IT Product Owner for Corporate Data Management will be responsible for ensuring the design, implementation, and management of scalable data engineering platforms and management processes to support business intelligence, analytics, and AI/ML data-driven organizational objectives for Corporate Data Products.

•Lead and manage a team, co-located in Washington DC and Chennai, to engineer, implement, support, review, and recommend cost effective data management solutions

•Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data platforms, data product owners, solution architects, and data governance/privacy team to deliver high quality trusted data products.

•Architect and build a scalable data foundation for WB to support diverse data needs including various upstream and downstream data integration, batch and real time insights, and multiple data types.

•Lead the evolution of ML/AI platforms to augment business use cases and bootstrapping AI.

•Ensure alignment and partnership with business stakeholders to assess data requirements and translate them into actionable data engineering and management strategies.

•Develops and manages relationships with critical vendors, including procurement and software contracts

•Ability to prioritize, strategize and juggle competing demands, take on new responsibilities, and adjust plans to meet changing priorities in a dynamic environment.

•Maintain positive, constructive approach to problem-solving internally and during client interactions with focus on timely and accurate issue resolution.

•Evaluate best of breed tools in the Data Management space and stay abreast of industry trends with analysts such as Gartner and Forrester to research and identify innovative opportunities for new data management solutions and develop the roadmap for data engineering and data management functions.

•Automate and improve data processes, pipelines and workflows for scalability, reliability and efficiency.

•Provide thought leadership in the architecture, design and engineering of data pipelines, develop roadmaps, and implementation plans

•Lead development of high performance ETL processes and implement solutions that are flexible, scalable, secure, and cost effective, both on-premises and in the cloud, to meet the growing needs of the World Bank’s data landscape.

•Establishes the governance of data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications, and automated decision making

•Ensure the design, architecture and security reviews of the data management/engineering framework and solution are in line with industry best practices, ITS standards and represent good practices.

•innovate and establish a cloud-based data engineering framework in ITSDA that will accommodate both “traditional” structured data sources and “non-traditional” unstructured multi-format data sources supporting both current and emerging needs.

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