IT Analyst, Data Engineering (WB Finance Data Mart Solutions))

IT Analyst, Data Engineering (WB Finance Data Mart Solutions)) Job #: req35081 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology Grade: GE Term Duration: 2 years 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Chennai,India Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 12/15/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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. Established in 1944, 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 120 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:

Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.

Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.

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. The ITS mission is to leverage information and technology as a force multiplier to accelerate, deepen, and sustain development impact. ITS is on an Agile transformation journey, reshaping all aspects of the operating model to increase and accelerate value creation.
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.

WBG Finance (ITSFI) is responsible for providing high quality, streamlined information and technology solutions for the World Bank’s Financial services, which include Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Controls, Treasury, Loans, Accounting, and Concessional finance (handling donor contributions from inception to the point of final disbursement, including IDA, Financial Intermediary Funds and Trust Funds). ITSFI is additionally responsible for building its IT services using a shared platform that provides scale, leverage, reliability, and control while at the same time improving responsiveness to emerging business needs. The ITSFI team is accountable for the implementation of the ITS Strategy supporting WBG core finance business processes.

As a unit within the ITSFI department, ITSFT unit enables key functions of the WBG Finance and Accounting vice-presidency and its corporate partners such as financial management, payments and disbursements, new lending product deployment, financial accounting, institutional analytics, and external reporting. The unit also operates and evolves WBG ERP and the external client digital banking platform and supports WFA financial technology innovation.

Domain: Corporate Finance & Accounting

Strategic Context

Investments in the Corporate Finance and Accounting Domain will enable the scale-up of WBG operations by integrating key outcomes from the Aria, Libra, and blockchain initiatives. These investments will support the Evolution Roadmap priorities by enhancing operational efficiency by simplifying business processes to enable more efficient use of funds and improving financial controls. The World Bank Group's Finance ERP modernization project will enhance financial management capabilities, reduce operational risk, and increase agility. Project Libra will modernize the Bank's loan ecosystem, streamline and automate loan processes, and incorporate innovations such as AI, OCR, and Blockchain, ensuring greater flexibility, scalability, and adaptability. Adopting blockchain technology will optimize and digitize end-to-end business processes, providing full traceability, immutable audit trails, and efficient data management. These strategic initiatives will position the WBG at the forefront of financial innovation, promoting sustainable development and financial stability.

Key Priorities 

• ARIA – ERP renewal

• LIBRA – loans landscape renewal

• FUNDSCHAIN – disbursement traceability

• Use of Artificial Intelligence to gain efficiency

Roles & Responsibilities

The World Bank’s Finance IT unit is seeking a dynamic, highly skilled, and motivated a hands-on data professional with deep expertise in data engineering to drive the modernization and optimization of our financial data platforms and delivering actionable insights for the Finance business teams. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing existing data pipelines and solutions using Informatica PowerCenter and contributes to solutions leveraging a modern data stack including Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2), Dremio, Power BI, Python-based ETL/ELT, and Azure Data Factory (ADF) with particular focus on Capital Markets and Lending data. This role is primarily technical, requiring strong hands-on experience in data engineering, integration architecture, and data platform operations. The incumbent will be expected to gain and apply practical domain understanding over time to deliver robust, compliant solutions that meet business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Engineering & Architecture (Technical Delivery)

• Implementation and maintenance of scalable, secure, high-performance data pipelines and architectures leveraging:

• Informatica PowerCenter for enterprise ETL/ELT design, development, administration, performance tuning, and migration.

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) for data lake storage and governance.

• Dremio for data virtualization and semantic layer enablement.

• Develop and support data integrations and processing using SQL; Python for automation and data processing is desirable.

• Contribute to implementing Azure-based data solutions:

• Orchestrate batch ingestion and processing in Azure Data Factory (ADF).

• Store and govern data in ADLS Gen2 following established standards.

• Support data virtualization and semantic layer enablement in Dremio.

• Assist with Lakehouse and analytics patterns (e.g., Databricks, Power BI) under guidance.

• Implement data quality checks, lineage and cataloging using established tools and processes; adhere to observability practices (logging, alerting).

• Integrate Azure cloud-native services (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics) to enable real-time and event-driven processing patterns.

• Adopt best practices for data quality, lineage, observability, and governance aligned to World Bank and industry standards.

• Analytics Platform Enablement (Plus/Value-Add)

• Enable analytics use cases by preparing curated datasets and robust dimensional/semantic models that support self-service consumption.

• Provide technical support for Power BI data models and reports; build simple dashboards as needed.

• Conduct data validation and exploratory analysis to confirm accuracy and completeness of datasets.

• Technical Mentorship

• Review deliverables to ensure alignment with WBG standards and guidelines.

• Coordinate day-to-day activities and communication between geographically distributed teams (e.g., Chennai and HQ), including vendor partners, ensuring timely and quality delivery.

• Serve as a bridge between data engineering and analytics teams, ensuring the data models meet analytical and operational needs.

• Domain & Data Knowledge Development

• Proactively deepen practical understanding of capital markets data, processes, and products (trade lifecycle, securities, derivatives, market data, regulatory reporting). Continuously expand domain expertise to improve solution relevance and impact.

• Partner with business stakeholders to clarify and translate requirements into scalable technical designs to support regulatory and management reporting needs. Document and translate them into technical specifications.

• Participate in solution walkthroughs and UAT; triage and resolve system issues within defined processes and SLAs.

• Data Governance, Security, and Compliance

• Apply established controls for privacy, security, data quality, lineage, and access management.

• Collaborate with data stewards and governance bodies to maintain high standards of data integrity and compliance.

• Agile and DevOps Practices:

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies and utilize Azure DevOps (ADO) for project tracking and collaboration.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Finance, or related field with 2+ years of relevant experience; or Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience.

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on data engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.

• Proven, hands-on expertise with Informatica PowerCenter:

• End-to-end ETL/ELT development (mappings, workflows, sessions), repository management, versioning, job orchestration.

• Performance tuning, pushdown optimization, partitioning, and high-volume data processing.

• Administration and operations (upgrades, patches, security, scheduling, monitoring).

• Solid SQL development skills, Python for data processing/automation is a plus.

• Solid understanding of data modeling (dimensional, relational), metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.

• Experience in developing Azure data solutions (ADF, ADLS Gen2); experience with Dremio, Power BI, Databricks is highly desirable.

• Demonstrated ability to work within cross functional technical teams, manage technical teams, manage delivery of small to medium projects, and communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.

• Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and compliance best practices.

• Desired Qualifications (Strong Plus)

• Exposure to Databricks, Spark, or Lakehouse architectures (e.g., Apache Iceberg).

• Experience with Power BI (data modeling, DAX) and/or Tableau.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures in Azure (Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics).

• Experience in financial data domains (capital markets, lending) or public sector financial systems.

• Experience in international development finance or public sector financial systems.

Core Competencies:

• Deliver Results for Clients: Contributes to delivery of results for client on sophisticated issues. Sets ambitious goals that align with the WBG mission and is always looking to improve. Understands clients’ most pressing challenges and contributes to solutions. Takes personal responsibility for producing high quality work, identifying, and advising of risks, and delivering results for clients.

• Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries: Keeps others fully informed to ensure integration and work consistency and displays a sense of mutuality and respect. Approaches conflicts as common problems to be solved. Seeks and listens to input from others to advise own decision making and openly shares information. Frames thinking/actions with a WBG corporate perspective in mind.

• Lead and Innovate: Brings new and different insights. Applies critical thinking to current approaches, identifies areas for improvement, and tries novel solutions that get results. Considers own behavior in context of WBG’s values and mission and recognizes impact one has on others. Operates in ambiguity and changing needs and supports others to do the same.

• Create, Apply and Share Knowledge: Actively contributes to and readily applies WBG’s body of knowledge for internal and/or external client solutions. Contributes to the department’s and WBG’s body of knowledge by applying lessons learned and expertise. Actively invests in own knowledge and seeks feedback. Builds personal and professional networks within and beyond the work group.

• Make Smart Decisions: Uses available data and makes timely decisions. Seeks and analyzes facts, data, and lessons of experience to support sound, logical decisions regarding own and others’ work. Applies cost/benefit analysis to meet work program objectives. Contributes to decision making by providing relevant risk analysis. Shows initiative when vital and makes decisions in a timely manner within own area of responsibility.

• Client Understanding and Advising: Looks at issues from the client’s perspective and takes action beyond normal expectations to ensure client satisfaction. Analyzes situations and determines alternative or creative scenarios and approaches to add value to the business in new and different ways.

• Learning Orientation: Stays abreast of new trends and developments in own specialty area as well as what is occurring in the broader industry. Obtains training as needed to remain current on technical expertise. Exposes self to increasingly more challenging projects and opportunities to learn.

• Broad Business Thinking: Maintains an in-depth understanding of the long-term implications of decisions both for department and the client’s business. Ensures that decisions are supported by relevant stakeholders as well as sound performance data.

• Job Specific Competencies:

• Data Management Analysis and Information Delivery: Tests, selects and implements new data management and statistical analysis tools and processes. Sets up and integrates new and enhanced information services. Identifies customer needs and determines the appropriate tools and resources to meet their needs.

• Database Knowledge: Applies understanding of logical and physical design principles to routine database maintenance activities. Identifies data components and data sources. Identifies data security, recovery, and integrity procedures with regards to own business function databases

• Data Integration: Able to interpret data flow diagrams and source to target specifications. Implements and supports data feeds in data integration tools.

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.

Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.