Associate Senior Enterprise Architect, Washington DC

Associate Senior Enterprise Architect Job #: req37867 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology Grade: GG Term Duration: 3 years 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 8/11/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects, and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative change around the globe. For more information, visit 
VPU 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:
Department Context
The World Bank Group Technology Office (ITSTO) defines and executes the technology strategy for the World Bank Group, ensuring that technological investments and standards deliver secure, resilient, and efficient platforms to support global operations. Through strategic planning, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and core infrastructure management, ITSTO aligns technology initiatives with the Bank Group’s mission and business objectives.
ITSTO drives technology-enabled innovation, modernizes infrastructure, and enhances organizational agility. By fostering collaboration across all World Bank Group entities—including IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID—ITSTO leverages technology as a catalyst for accelerating development impact and advancing digital transformation. Its leadership ensures that technology serves as a strategic enabler for achieving the Bank Group’s development goals, empowering the institution to address emerging challenges and opportunities with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Unit Context
The Enterprise Architecture (ITSET) unit enables strategy execution by connecting business goals with technology investments, frameworks, and delivery models. ITSET ensures coherence, interoperability, and business value realization through standards, reference architecture, and governance. The unit drives portfolio alignment, process optimization, and adoption of data-driven practices across the WBG.
Duties and accountabilities:
The Associate Senior Enterprise Architect
• Defines and governs portfolio architectures and product architectures to enable as well as accelerate solution delivery with the ITS portfolio by leveraging enterprise architecture frameworks, accelerators, guidelines and best practices while ensuring compliance with enterprise guardrails and architectural standards. 

• Drives enterprise-wide adoption and optimization of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), AI/ML and Agentic AI capabilities — including services such as Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Agent Service, and Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — and modern integration patterns to enable secure, scalable, and intelligent solutions across the organization. • Translates organizational strategy, business priorities, and digital transformation goals into coherent, actionable enterprise architecture direction and technology roadmaps — including strategies for multi-agent orchestration, autonomous workflows, and AI-augmented business processes.

• Evaluates and applies industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices — including agentic AI orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Microsoft Agent Framework (converging AutoGen and Semantic Kernel), Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), Strands Agents SDK, and OpenAI Agents SDK pragmatically to advance the World Bank Group's digital transformation and modernization objectives. • Produces high-quality, traceable architecture artifacts — including reference architectures, design patterns, solution guides, decision frameworks, and agentic AI governance models — that enable delivery teams to execute effectively and consistently across cloud-native and multi-agent environments.

• Collaborates effectively with business leaders, solution architects, platform engineers, and Agile teams to co-create solutions — including AI agent workflows, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, and human-in-the-loop designs — that balance innovation, feasibility, and enterprise alignment. • Acts as an enterprise enabler and trusted advisor, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared architectural standards, patterns, and governance practices — including agent lifecycle governance, agent identity and access management, and responsible AI guardrails. 

• Demonstrates openness to feedback, fosters inclusive decision-making, and integrates diverse technical and business perspectives into architectural recommendations. • Balances innovation with risk management, regulatory compliance, security, and operational stability — including AI content safety guardrails, agent policy enforcement, FinOps for AI workloads, and agent observability — in all architectural decisions and guidance.

• Architects and governs enterprise integration strategies leveraging API management platforms (Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft, Apigee), integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solutions (Azure Logic Apps, Azure Integration Services, AWS Step Functions, Workato), and enterprise service buses to enable seamless, secure, and governed connectivity across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. • Designs and enforces event-driven architectures (EDA) using cloud-native messaging and streaming services — including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Event Grid, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub, and Apache Kafka — to enable real-time, loosely coupled, and resilient enterprise integrations at scale.

• Leads the definition and governance of API-led connectivity patterns — including experience APIs, process APIs, and system APIs — establishing API lifecycle management standards, versioning strategies, contract-first design, and developer portal governance to promote reusability and interoperability across enterprise systems. • Drives cloud integration architecture for multi-cloud and hybrid environments, defining patterns for cross-cloud data synchronization, identity federation (Entra ID, AWS IAM Identity Center, GCP Identity), network interconnectivity (ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, Cloud Interconnect), and workload portability to ensure operational resilience and vendor risk mitigation.

• Defines enterprise integration standards for data interoperability and exchange, including master data management (MDM) integration, ETL/ELT pipeline architectures (Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, dbt), real-time data streaming, and canonical data models to ensure data consistency, quality, and traceability across enterprise systems and analytics platforms. • Governs the adoption and architectural alignment of low-code/no-code integration platforms (Power Automate, Power Platform, Copilot Studio) and RPA tools within enterprise workflows, ensuring they comply with security, data governance, and architectural standards while accelerating citizen-led automation and business process digitization.

• Establishes and enforces integration security and governance standards — including OAuth 2.0, mTLS, API key management, rate limiting, payload encryption, and zero-trust network access — to ensure all enterprise integrations meet organizational security policies, data protection requirements, and regulatory compliance mandates. Enterprise Architecture Development
• Leads the development, evolution, and continuous improvement of enterprise architecture frameworks, reference architectures, design patterns, and governance guidelines to ensure technology initiatives are strategically aligned with business objectives.

• Oversees the creation and maintenance of comprehensive architecture documentation — including standards, blueprints, decision records, and solution guides — to promote knowledge sharing, institutional learning, and consistent adoption across teams. • Establishes and maintains an enterprise architecture artifacts catalog encompassing reference architectures, best practices, guardrails, and reusable patterns to strengthen the EA foundation and enable enforceable governance.
Architecture Analysis & Innovation
• Guides the assessment and rationalization of existing IT infrastructure, platforms, and applications to identify opportunities for modernization, optimization, and cost efficiency.

• Manages and conducts architectural reviews and Well-Architected Framework assessments, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards, security requirements, and organizational goals. • Monitors industry trends, emerging technologies — including Agentic AI, cloud-native architectures, and advanced integration paradigms — to proactively identify opportunities for innovation, capability enhancement, and competitive advantage.

• Evaluates vendor solutions, platforms, and tools through structured decision frameworks and comparative analyses to inform enterprise technology selection and adoption strategies. Stakeholder Engagement
• Communicates architectural strategies, trade-offs, and recommendations to executive leadership and stakeholders with clarity, ensuring alignment and informed decision-making across the organization.

• Manages collaboration with business leaders and program teams to elicit, analyze, and translate business requirements and strategic priorities into actionable technical specifications and architecture direction. • Oversees partnership with Agile and SAFe teams to ensure architectural alignment, scalability, technical guidance, and governance across iterative development cycles and delivery streams.

• Engages cross-functional teams — including security, compliance, operations, and platform engineering — to ensure holistic architectural coherence and adherence to enterprise guardrails.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree with 8 years of experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, or related discipline; OR Bachelor's degree with 10 years relevant experience.

• Enterprise Architecture certification required (TOGAF, EACOE, or equivalent issued by The Open Group). • Cloud Solutions Architect certification required (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or GCP equivalent).

• Strong hands-on experience designing and governing cloud reference architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for large-scale, mission-critical environments. • Proven experience establishing and enforcing enterprise guardrails to ensure coherence, interoperability, security, and compliance across cloud, AI, and integration domains.

• Proven experience driving enterprise-wide cloud adoption and optimization, ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. • Proven experience defining and guiding AI and GenAI adoption frameworks, including responsible AI considerations, architectural patterns, and enterprise enablement models. 

• Demonstrated expertise in integration strategies and patterns, including API-led, event-driven, and data-based architectures. • Strong capability to assess existing IT landscapes, identify architectural gaps, and recommend modernization or optimization opportunities. 

• Proven ability to monitor industry trends and emerging technologies and apply them pragmatically to enterprise contexts. • Experience leading or participating in architecture reviews, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards, best practices, and business objectives. 

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience partnering with Agile delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment across iterative development cycles. 

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.

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