Associate Senior Solutions Architect

World Bank Group • Washington, DC

13d • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Senior Solutions Architect will translate the vision for reimagined corporate services, personalized workspaces, and mobile experiences into secure, scalable, integrated, and intuitive solution architectures for an AI-enabled and increasingly agentic future. The role leads architecture from discovery through delivery, turning business and user needs into coherent designs across applications, data, integration, AI, automation, infrastructure, and networks.

The role guides key technical decisions, embeds enterprise standards and responsible AI principles, and strengthens architecture practices to ensure solutions are resilient, reusable, responsible, maintainable, and deliver lasting value to Corporate users across the World Bank Group. It works across business, product, design, engineering, security, and technology teams, and contributes to the development of peers and junior staff.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an Engineering field with at least eight years of relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree with at least ten years of progressive experience in information technology, mobile and advanced technologies or engineering; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least seven years of proven experience developing and maintaining large-scale corporate solutions, mobile apps, personalized digital workspaces, employee applications, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated hands-on contribution to production solutions, including personal coding, prototyping, integration, troubleshooting, and deployment responsibilities.
• Experience leading complex delivery across internal staff, vendors, and globally distributed teams in environments with strong governance, security, and operational requirements.
• Required certification: Agile or scaled-Agile certification (SAFe for Architects (ARCH), SAFe DevOps, or SAFe POPM) and a Certified Solutions Architect credential (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI).
• Ability to anticipate client needs, respond quickly to changing priorities, make timely decisions, remove obstacles, and drive solutions forward while balancing immediate needs with long-term value.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a change agent, constructively challenge ineffective practices, align diverse business and technical stakeholders, and help teams adopt new solutions and ways of working.
• Ability to learn quickly, ask effective questions, use evidence well, take ownership, and follow through on commitments to deliver business value.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, cultures, and institutional boundaries.
• Ability to responsibly leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity, learning, and decision-making.

Nice To Haves

• TOGAF certification.
• IDEO U Design Thinking Certificate or Business Innovation Certificate.
• Digital Transformation certification.
• Experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, and violent (FCV) contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architectures for personalized digital workspaces, mobile apps, and corporate digital services, translating business, user, and product needs into secure, scalable, integrated solutions.
• Evaluate technology options, dependencies, risks, trade-offs, nonfunctional requirements, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Architect intuitive, responsive, accessible, and personalized web and mobile experiences, considering iOS native and hybrid approaches, app distribution, identity, personalization, notifications, integration, device capabilities, offline and AI functionality, performance, and cross-channel consistency.
• Balance user experience with reuse, maintainability, cost, and sustainability.
• Architect secure and governed AI, agentic, data, and automation capabilities for personalized, contextual, and proactive services, including appropriate data, integration, identity, security, monitoring, governance, and human oversight.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams from prototype through deployment, resolve architectural issues and dependencies, and ensure delivery aligns with approved architectures and enterprise standards.
• Promote reusable patterns, modern engineering practices, and effective management of exceptions and technical debt.
• Align architectural decisions and trade-offs across business, product, design, engineering, security, and technology teams, ensuring measurable improvements in user experience, service delivery, adoption, performance, risk, and cost.
• Coach and develop peers and junior staff, strengthen cross-team collaboration, and contribute to global teams through knowledge-sharing, clear accountability, and continuous improvement of solution architecture practices.

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid leave, including parental leave
• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior