Associate Senior Solutions Architect

At the World Bank, a member of 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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd 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 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 unit will oversee vital corporate systems such as personnel administration, global payroll, benefits, tax, pension, budget and planning, cost and expense management, internal audit, ethics and justice processes, heath services, and other essential corporate services. These operations-and their supporting platforms-demand uncompromising accuracy, confidentiality, and resilience, operating in environments where reliability is non-negotiable. Duties and Accountabilities: The Associate Senior Solutions Architect leads the execution of strategic business requirements by designing integrated, AI-ready technology solutions and guiding their implementation across software, data, and cloud infrastructure. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role synthesizes business, information, and technical perspectives to create scalable architectures aligned with enterprise principles. By evaluating functionality, constraints, and compatibility across platforms, it ensures interoperability, stability, usability, and high availability in distributed environments, enabling corporate application teams to deliver with greater velocity, quality, and efficiency.

• Translate budget policy changes and new WBP requirements into functional and technical specifications for planning models, allocation rules, workflows, and approval routing.
• Define integration patterns between the planning tools, SAP ERP/FM, HR position data, and the enterprise data platform, keeping one consistent version of budget and actuals.
• Design, configure, and support planning applications in Jedox, including cubes, rules, Integrator jobs, and web reports and forms, alongside other periphal enterprise tools in use.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for SAP BW on HANA data models, planning functions,
• Partner with data engineering teams to integrate budget, actuals, and commitment data into the enterprise reporting tools such as Azure Databricks
• Deliver trusted budget-versus-actual, trajectory, and performance reporting for WBP, VPU budget teams, and senior management.
• Identify and shape AI-enabled opportunities, such as anomaly detection in budget submissions, forecasting support, and natural-language access to budget data, with responsible AI and human oversight built in.