E T Consultant
| Job #: | req38381 |
| Organization: | World Bank |
| Sector: | Information Technology |
| Grade: | EC2 |
| Term Duration: | 1 year 0 months |
| Recruitment Type: | Local Recruitment |
| Location: | Chennai,India |
| Required Language(s): | English |
| Preferred Language(s): | |
| Closing Date: | 10/5/2026 (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:
Digital Solutions (ITSDS)
The Digital Solutions team delivers modern productivity, collaboration, and endpoint solutions to over 30,000 users. We support Microsoft 365, Power Platform, WebEx, and AI tools like Copilot, Claude, Google Gemini, and Grammarly, while engineering, deploying, and supporting Windows Endpoints. We are a collaborative, customer-focused team committed to solving problems with reliable, impactful technology.
Duties and accountabilities:
Role Purpose:
This is a hands-on role at the heart of modernizing enterprise applications and driving the adoption of low-code, automation, and AI-driven solutions - designing data models, crafting API integrations, and shipping production-ready solutions as part of our Power Platform team.
You will play a hands-on role serve as a technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and governing enterprise-grade low-code, AI, and custom application solutions. You will leverage Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Azure services, React, .NET, and enterprise data platforms to deliver scalable and secure business solutions. The role requires deep expertise in solution architecture, integrations, DevOps, data engineering, and platform governance, alongside mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
• Solution Architecture & Development: Design and develop enterprise-scale solutions and establish reusable architecture patterns across Power Platform, Azure, and custom-built applications - balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Technical Leadership: Lead technical design reviews, set engineering standards, and mentor both developers and citizen developers to raise the quality bar across the team.
• Enterprise Data & Analytics: Design and deliver data integration solutions across Databricks, Python, ETL pipelines, custom connectors, and enterprise data platforms - turning raw data into reliable, actionable outputs.
• Full-Stack Engineering: Develop and oversee complex solutions leveraging Power Platform, React, .NET, Azure Functions, modern web technologies and DevOps. Build and oversee end-to-end solutions spanning Power Platform, React, .NET, Azure Functions, modern web technologies ad and DevOps practices.
• Platform Strategy & Reliability: Own platform scalability, resilience, and performance - driving continuous modernization and ensuring solutions are built to last.
Selection Criteria
Education and Experience:
• Master's degree with 5 years or a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Core Competencies:
• Low-Code & AI Mindset: Ability to evaluate when to use low-code, AI-enabled automation, or custom-code approaches to solve business problems effectively.
• Automation & Integration Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and building automated workflows, event-driven integrations, and APIs across Power Platform, Azure, and enterprise systems.
• Analytical Thinking: Break down complex business problems, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and troubleshoot across integrations, data pipelines, and performance bottlenecks.
• Stakeholder Communication: Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working across multiple projects and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Attention to Detail: Deliver reliable, well-tested, and well-documented solutions with a high standard of quality and minimal rework.
• Growth Orientation: Proactively builds skills, stays current with emerging technologies, and continuously looks for better ways to solve problems.
Recommended Certifications:
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate / Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect
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.
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.