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
ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.
Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.
As a unit within the WB DataOperations and Technology office (ITSDOITSDOCorporate (ITSOC), the Data and Analytics unit (ITSDA) provides state-of-art information and technology applications to support the operations of the World Bank Group. Functions provided data, Information Managementensure that the systems meet the business needs of users and AI solutionsexternal clients to manage business processes for stakeholders across World Bank. The current technology landscape encompasses Cloud-based data platforms (Azure and AWS), Oracle, SQL Server, Business Objects, Tableau, Cisco Information Server (Composite), SAP BW/Hana, Informatica, .Net, HTML 5, CSS Frameworks, SharePoint and many others. Our plans are to migrate our on-prem data repositories and re-engineer based on new Cloud architectures in the coming years.
Responsibilities:
• Perform data analysis and create reusable assets for our Data & Analytics Portal, i.e., dashboard, data visualization & reports, including ad-hoc requests from clients.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights, utilize tools and techniques to understand patterns.
• Ability to quickly grasp business insights and navigate through the data structures to assess the issue.
• Reverse engineering from reports, dashboards and applications through medallion architecture understand the business logic and document them.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and provide analytical support.
• Develop solutions based on data analysis to address business challenges and Identify opportunities for process improvements through data insights.
• Document data processes, methodologies, and findings for future reference and maintain clear records of data sources and analysis methods.
• Identify and categorize source data (where the data originates) and establish a clear mapping between source and target fields.
• Analyze how changes will affect existing processes or systems and identify stakeholders impacted by data migration or integration.
• Develop validation checks to ensure data integrity post-migration and Conduct testing to confirm that the target meets requirements.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the analysis process and record decisions made, issues encountered, and resolutions.
• Work closely with data engineers to understand the target structures and design the semantic layer conducive for analytics.
• Work closely with Data governance team and business stakeholders to document the data elements metadata and report metadata.
• Compare source and target data structures to identify discrepancies and assess data quality issues, such as duplicates, missing values, or inconsistencies.
• Develop test plans, test scripts, automation procedures to test data and report quality
• Contribute, develop and maintain Enterprise Data Model
• Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
• Develop, maintain, support AI/ML models in support of various analytical and data science needs
