Associate Solutions Architect

Associate Solutions Architect

Job #: req
38127

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Information Technology

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 2 years 0 months

Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC, United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date: 9/2/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

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,(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

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:

Digital platforms, data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) play an increasingly critical role in how development programs are designed, delivered, and adapted. Against that backdrop, the unit treats innovation as a first-class discipline: it moves promising ideas from concept to working software at speed, tests emerging technologies against real institutional problems, proves or disproves value quickly through Proofs of Concept (PoC) and Minimum Viable Products (MVP), and industrializes what succeeds into secure, scalable solutions.

The unit builds predominantly within the Microsoft landscape, spanning the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) where a specific workload calls for it. Its ambition extends beyond Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) content generation to Agentic AI, in which autonomous, goal-driven agents reason over institutional knowledge, invoke enterprise systems through tools, and carry multi-step work to completion under human oversight.

The Solutions Architect (Innovation) designs and builds new solutions from idea to a proven, secure, working product. The role is hands-on: at this level the architect is expected to write the first version personally rather than specify it for others to build.

Working within the architectural direction set by the team, the role shapes candidate solutions with business sponsors, advises on technical feasibility, and delivers experiments that answer real questions quickly. The emphasis throughout is on building, proving, and learning.

• Work with business sponsors to turn high-level ideas into framed technical problems, candidate designs, and a realistic path to a first working version.
• Build Proofs of Concept (PoC) and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) that validate concepts quickly and surface the technical risks worth knowing about before further investment.
• Evaluate emerging platforms, frameworks, and AI models against specific institutional problems, and present findings with cost, risk, and adoption implications.
• Apply a fail-fast approach, retiring ideas that do not prove out and documenting the learning so it benefits future initiatives.
• Prepare successful experiments for transition to product teams, covering design documentation, operational readiness, and handover.
• Contribute reusable patterns, accelerators, and components that shorten the path from idea to working software.

• Design and build solutions on the Microsoft Power Platform, using Power Apps for canvas and model-driven applications, Power Automate for workflow and process automation, Power Pages for…