Solutions Architect
| Job #: | req36233 |
| Organization: | World Bank |
| Sector: | Information Technology |
| Grade: | GF |
| Term Duration: | 3 years 0 months |
| Recruitment Type: | Local Recruitment |
| Location: | Sofia,Bulgaria |
| Required Language(s): | English |
| Preferred Language(s): | |
| Closing Date: | 4/17/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC |
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 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
Department 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 some 170 products and services, 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. Operating from multiple locations in a global delivery model, the team seeks to combine disciplined strategic planning with focused roadmaps, agile product delivery, design-forward innovation, digital engineering, automation, and AI to produce solutions that are engaging, impactful, and efficient. The goal is a unified, OneWBG corporate backbone—streamlined, connected, and adaptive—that empowers leaders, staff, partners, and shareholders with the processes, capabilities, and insights to advance the WBG's mission at scale.
Unit & Team Context
The Corporate Digital Backbone unit creates an autonomous digital backbone for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the diverse corporate portfolio, e.g. application modernization, technology debt reduction, efficient data exchange, advanced analytics, enterprise integration, automated business processes, and agentic-AI. The Corporate Autonomous Platform team delivers enterprise integration capabilities for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the corporate portfolio to enable efficient data exchange, automated business processes, and a unified view of operations.
Duties and accountabilities:
Role Scope
The Solutions Architect executes strategic business requirements by designing integrated technology solutions and guiding their implementation across hardware, software, data, and network systems. Working with limited supervision, this role combines business, information, and technical perspectives to create scalable, high‑level architectures aligned with enterprise principles. By evaluating functionality, constraints, and compatibility across platforms, it ensures interoperability, stability, usability, and high availability in distributed environments.
• Performs advanced-level research and analyses in the field of specialization and oversees large and/or complex projects or processes, with limited supervision.
• Proposes solutions to moderately complex problems in the field of specialization.
• Seeks common ground and negotiates issues with internal and/or external clients to recommend for higher-level approval.
• Provides knowledge-based guidance, coaching, and training to more junior staff within the job area, serving as a technical resource for other professionals.
• Requires practical application of professional knowledge at a broad-based level to complete difficult assignments.
Key Responsibilities
Solutions Architecture Development
• Designs scalable architecture solutions that align with client needs and industry standards
• Develops and maintains documentation for architecture designs, processes, and standards to facilitate knowledge sharing
Architecture Analysis & Innovation
• Evaluates technologies, tools, and frameworks to enhance solution performance and reliability
• Executes architectural reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and organizational goals
• Helps monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement
• Partners with Agile teams to identify inconsistencies in architectural design and assists the Agile Release Train with enhancements
Stakeholder Engagement
• Supports the communication of the organization’s solutions architecture vision to stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and program increment planning
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into product specifications
• Supports Agile teams with implementing the architecture
Selection Criteria
• Education & Experience: Typically requires a 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. Advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
• Recommended Certifications: Certified Solutions Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI); SAFe for Architects (ARCH); SAFe DevOps (SDP)
• Enterprise Architecture Design Expertise: Proven ability to design and document scalable, end-to-end technology solutions that integrate hardware, software, data, and network systems across distributed environments, with demonstrated experience translating complex business requirements into comprehensive architectural blueprints aligned with enterprise standards and industry best practices.
• Multi-Platform Integration and Interoperability: Strong technical knowledge evaluating functionality, constraints, and compatibility across diverse technology stacks and platforms, ensuring seamless integration, system stability, high availability, and optimal performance in heterogeneous IT environments.
• Strategic Technology Evaluation: Experience conducting architectural reviews and assessments of emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to recommend solutions that enhance reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness while identifying opportunities for innovation and modernization that drive competitive advantage.
• Agile Architecture Leadership: Demonstrated ability to work embedded with Agile Release Trains and cross-functional teams, participating in Program Increment planning, identifying architectural inconsistencies, and providing just-in-time design guidance that enables teams to deliver business value while maintaining architectural integrity.
• Business-Technical Translation Skills: Ability to bridge business and technology perspectives by gathering and analyzing stakeholder requirements, articulating the solutions architecture vision to both technical and non-technical audiences, and negotiating trade-offs between business needs, technical constraints, and organizational goals.
• Architecture Governance and Mentorship: Track record of establishing and maintaining architecture standards, design patterns, and documentation frameworks that facilitate knowledge sharing across the organization, while providing technical guidance and coaching to development teams and junior architects on architectural principles and implementation best practices.
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
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.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.
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