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 120 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:

Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.

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.

Unit Context:

ITSOC delivers innovative products and services to frontline staff working on projects throughout every Region and Global Practice. We work in close partnership with a growing list of internal clients plus external business partners, implementing agencies, donors, NGOs, and citizens. Our delivery model leverages global expertise, design and architecture, leading technology, and robust processes to deliver business solutions that ensure value for money, across a number of domains including, Operations and Corporate, Digital Workplace, Data and Analytics.

As a unit within the WB Operations and Corporate (ITSOC), the Data and Analytics unit (ITSDA) provides state-of-art information and technology applications to support data management for the World Bank Group. Functions provided ensure that the systems meet the data needs of users and external clients to manage business processes for the World Bank. The current technology landscape encompasses Cloud-based data platforms (Azure and AWS), Data Bricks, Oracle, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, Cisco Information Server (Composite), OneTrust, Collibra, Informatica, DBT, .Net, HTML 5, CSS Frameworks, SharePoint, and many others. Our plans are to continue to migrate our on-prem data repositories and re-engineer based on new Cloud architectures in the coming years.

ITSDA is seeking an IT Officer to play the role of a Data Governance Specialist, as part of the ITSDA Data Governance Team, to help ITSOC reach its goals of optimizing its global delivery model. She/he will work as part of the Data Governance and Privacy team in ITSDA, in designing and managing the next-gen data governance solutions that support our data management, data use and data science functions. It is important that the candidate has strong technical and communications skills. The Specialist will also focus on creating innovative approaches to support the many emerging data governance needs across the Bank by establishing frameworks, patterns, and solutions that can be rapidly and securely deployed to best enable the business to effectively govern corporate data assets.

Duties and Accountabilities:

The candidate will work closely with the project manager to deliver the following:

•Serve as the product owner for data governance and privacy solutions on the modern data platform.

•Hands on experience in working closely with business teams.

•Support the design, implementation, and day-to-day operations of various solutions across the data lifecycle (Collect, Store, Process, Transform, Analyze, Visualize, Govern, Protect).

•Implement data governance solutions within the World Bank ecosystem to enable business delivery.

•Have a strong understanding of designing and implementing solutions for governance of master and reference data, metadata and personal data.

•Ensure compliance of solutions with policies, security and financial controls including ICFR (Internal Controls for Financial Reporting).

•Contribute to the design, development, and documentation of institutional assets and artifacts following World Bank Group standards.

•Ensure that data validation processes, data quality control standards, testing strategy, and test plans are applied to data applications.

•Support data governance and data privacy solutions on the cloud to enable cloud migrations of institutional data.

•Perform day-to-day operations in support of data governance and privacy solutions, including but not limited to:

oIncident, Problem Management, and Root-Cause Analysis

oAccess Management

oAvailability Management

oPerformance Management

oMonitoring / Reporting

oUtilization and Cost assignment

oAudit Support

Selection Criteria

•Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience.

The candidate should have the following core skill sets:

•Excellent leadership, collaboration, and communications skills.

•Deep Knowledge and expertise in Data Governance and Data Privacy Concepts.

•Experience in working across a global delivery model.

•Good understanding of application development lifecycle.

•Experience in designing, building, and supporting data platforms across data lifecycle (Collect, Store, Process, Transform, Analyze, Visualize, Govern, Protect).

•Ability to create and socialize high-impact presentations that are business friendly.

•Strong understanding of technology management principles, cloud-based platforms and best practices in data and analytics.

•Understands procurement and budget management processes.

•Understanding of data architecture principles, and concepts.

•Ability to keep up to date with new Cloud offerings and solutions.

•Experience in evaluating multiple technologies, ability to develop decision frameworks.

•Ability to contribute to the design, development, and documentation of institutional assets and artifacts following World Bank Group standards.

•Experience in various development methodologies and Agile/Scrum principles. Ability to participate in multiple complex programs at the same time in an agile environment.

•Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to present to senior executives.

•Strong diplomatic, interpersonal and teamwork skills.

•Excellent organizational and time management skills and a keen sense of priorities.

•Experience with at least 2 of the following Data Platforms is desired:

oCollibra Cloud (Data Governance Center and Data Catalog)

oAzure Purview

oOneTrust

oAny leading Data Quality tools

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.

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