Job Description

E T Consultant

Job #: req39126 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology Grade: EC2 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/17/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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

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

Unit Context

WBG Finance (ITSFI) is responsible for providing high quality, streamlined information and technology solutions for the World Bank's Financial & HR services, which include Human Resources, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Controls, Treasury, Loans, Accounting, and Concessional finance (handling donor contributions from inception to the point of final disbursement, including IDA, Financial Intermediary Funds and Trust Funds). ITSFI is additionally responsible for building its IT services using a shared platform that provides scale, leverage, reliability, and control while at the same time improving responsiveness to emerging business needs. The ITSFI team is accountable for the implementation of the ITS Strategy supporting WBG core finance business processes.

As a unit within the Finance ITS, ITSFE provides IT applications to support VPUs engaged in Trust Fund management, donor fund oversight, project execution, and transfer of funds activities throughout the WBG. Key products and systems within the portfolio include the Trust Fund Portal, which serves as the primary platform for managing and reporting on trust fund operations, the Cofinancing Portal, AidFlows, and the Development Partner Center, which together support engagement with development partners and the tracking and reporting of external funding flows.

Role Summary

ITSFE is seeking a skilled and experienced Solution Engineer to join our growing team as an ET Consultant. The Solution Engineer will design, build, enhance, and support web-based solutions for the Trust Fund Portal, Cofinancing Portal, AidFlows, and Development Partner Center, with a strong focus on Angular front-end development and SQL-based data solutions. The role requires strong domain knowledge of trust fund and cofinancing business processes in order to translate business needs into responsive, user-friendly, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.

The Solution Engineer will work under limited supervision and is expected to provide informed technical advice to stakeholders. The candidate will work closely with Trust Fund business stakeholders, product owners, business analysts, designers, solution architects, QA engineers, and other developers, within the context of best practices in enterprise architecture, modern sourcing techniques, modular design of solutions, and appropriate integration of IT services and platforms. We are looking for an individual who will bring a sense of client and product focus to the team and who will ensure that our solutions meet or exceed expectations and deliver tangible business value.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy Angular-based user interfaces and components for the Trust Fund Portal, Cofinancing Portal, AidFlows, and Development Partner Center.
• Implement responsive, accessible, and consistent user experiences across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, in alignment with WBG design standards and in collaboration with the Design and Digital Acceleration teams.
• Write, optimize, and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and data models that support trust fund, cofinancing, and donor reporting functionality.
• Translate business requirements and user stories into technical designs, and provide effective solutions for trust fund and cofinancing workflows such as contribution and agreement tracking, fund reporting, partner engagement, and aid flow data capture and publication.
• Integrate front-end applications with back-end services and APIs, and support data exchange with other WBG finance and operational systems.
• Engage with Trust Fund business stakeholders and end users to understand their needs and challenges, and advise on feasible, scalable technical options.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily scrums, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure timely, quality delivery of product features and enhancements.
• Perform code reviews, unit and integration testing, and support user acceptance testing, defect resolution, and production support, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including solution designs, data flows, release notes, and user-facing guidance.
• Ensure solutions comply with WBG security, data protection, and enterprise architecture standards, and support CI/CD and release management practices.
• Monitor user feedback, application performance, and usage analytics to identify opportunities for technical improvement and efficiency gains.
• Deliver regular status updates, identify and communicate technical risks and dependencies, and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Broad-based professional experience and thorough knowledge of web application development and solution engineering, preferably within financial systems or fund management environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, analyze, and articulate technical and project issues, and to diagnose problems and propose reliable solutions.
• Strong, hands-on experience developing enterprise web applications with Angular (including TypeScript, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, RxJS), and building responsive user interfaces.
• Strong proficiency in SQL (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server), including query optimization, stored procedures, and data modeling.
• Working knowledge of Trust Fund management processes, cofinancing, donor fund operations, or development partner engagement is strongly preferred; prior experience with trust fund or cofinancing portals, aid flow reporting, or partner-facing platforms is a significant advantage.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience contributing to the design, build, and operation of solutions across key phases of the software development lifecycle.
• A minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and proficiency with Agile planning and tracking tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, version control (Git), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability to collaborate with team members across boundaries and contribute productively to shared deliverables, demonstrating respect for diverse points of view.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills with a demonstrated ability to cultivate effective and productive working relationships across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise, audience-appropriate documentation and presentations.
• Strong collaboration and facilitation skills with demonstrated experience engaging stakeholders in multicultural environments.
• Passion for innovation and commitment to staying current with the latest technological trends.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt effectively to changing priorities.
• Able to take personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results.
• Proficiency in English.

Core Competencies

• Deliver Results for Clients: Contributes at a fully professional level to delivery of results for clients on complex issues. Sets challenging goals aligned with the WBG mission and continuously seeks to improve. Understands clients' pressing challenges and contributes meaningfully to solutions. Takes personal responsibility for producing high quality work, identifying and informing of risks, and delivering results for clients.
• Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries: Keeps others fully informed to ensure integration and work consistency and displays a sense of mutuality and respect. Approaches conflicts as common problems to be solved. Seeks and listens to input from others to inform own decision making and openly shares information. Frames thinking and actions with a WBG corporate perspective in mind.
• Lead and Innovate: Brings new and different insights. Applies critical thinking to current approaches, identifies areas for improvement, and drives new solutions that deliver results. Considers own behavior in the context of WBG's values and mission and recognizes impact on others. Operates effectively in ambiguity and changing needs and supports others to do the same.
• Create, Apply and Share Knowledge: Actively contributes to and readily applies WBG's body of knowledge for internal and/or external client solutions. Contributes to the department's and WBG's body of knowledge by applying lessons learned and expertise. Actively invests in own knowledge and seeks feedback. Builds personal and professional networks within and beyond the work group.
• Make Smart Decisions: Leverages available data and makes timely, well-reasoned decisions. Seeks and analyzes facts, data, and lessons of experience to support sound decisions regarding own and others' work. Applies cost/benefit analysis to meet work program objectives. Contributes to decision making by providing relevant risk-analysis. Shows initiative and makes decisions in a timely manner within own area of responsibility.

IT Business Competencies

• Client Understanding and Advising: Provides informed technical and process advice to clients and helps them think proactively about how to best meet their current and future needs in trust fund management, cofinancing, and development partner engagement, taking into consideration underlying issues that the client may not be fully aware of.
• Learning Orientation: Stays abreast of new trends and developments in the industry and broader trends affecting WBG, including developments in front-end frameworks, data platforms, financial systems, and trust fund management.
• Broad Business Thinking: Maintains a solid understanding of key trust fund, cofinancing, and donor management business issues and their broader organizational impact.
• Business Process Knowledge: Understands and documents critical cross-functional business process flows for trust fund operations, cofinancing, and aid flow reporting as they relate to solution design.
• Technical Solution Design: Designs modular, scalable, and secure solutions that can be integrated and deployed in the WBG environment, applying sound engineering and UI/UX practices.
• Project Management: Manages assigned workstreams and deliverables effectively as part of a broader program, with the ability to coordinate across teams supporting trust fund product delivery.
• Systems Thinking: Understands and considers the underlying relationships between trust fund business needs, technology, data, and systems platforms when planning and recommending improvements.

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

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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