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About this position
The Technology and Transformation Department (TTD) provides the information and technology tools, solutions and services that enable the ongoing operation and management of the Bank.
The main objective of this consultancy is to work directly with members of the TTD Technology, Data and Assurance (TTD/TDA), and Product family owners in a dual role, performing risk identification and testing of controls for in scope IT systems during the self-assessment and processes and conducting automation testing for software applications to ensure quality.
What youโll do
- Participate in conjunction of members of TTD/TDA in the design and testing of the internal control testing exercise. For each of the ITGCs controls, the Bank performs an annual testing.
- Work with TTD/TDA in identifying out of the IT internal controls, which ones would be applicable to the specific new system implementations and all the downstream implications.
- Perform continuous monitoring for high-privileged accounts across all infrastructure (DB, OS, cloud components, privileged Identity manager, and applications) and advise product owners and technical leaders on the implementation of monitoring controls.
- Participate in the revision, actualization, and creation of all related documentation to the ITGCs controls. This may include procedures, operational documents, monitoring documents, inventories, and a wide variety of different types of documentation.
- Meet with the different actors of the Technology and Transformation Department to identify how each individual control is being performed and identifying testing automation needs.
- Coordinate activities with our automation testing outsourced activities to ensure the unit is responding to the needs from product owners and technical leads. These include functional, regression, performance and security testing.
- Drive the initiative of transforming our operations to agile by integrating automated test into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring high code quality and reducing manual intervention.
- Assist in the research and provide technical recommendations on how the controls can be designed deployed to meet the requirements in testing and CI/CD and present them to the corresponding stakeholders.
What you'll need
Education: Bachelorโs degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related fields. Masterโs degree preferred.
Experience: at least two years of relevant experience in Information Systems, IT Audit, or IT Risk Management, automation testing fields.
Additional Experience: 1) IT Risk Assessment โ evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying gaps, remediating risk, etc.; 2) IT Policy, Audit, Compliance, and IT Management Standards, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, SOC2, SOX, NIST, CISA, COBIT and COSO Frameworks; 3) working with people with different functional expertise and backgrounds; 4) presenting and documentation issues; 5) Familiarity with programming/scripting languages (e.g., phyton, java, javascript, .net); 6) Proficiency in automated testing tools (e.g.,Selenium, Worksoft); 7) Strong knowledge of Cloud technologies, DevSecOps Pipelines, Versioning controls, JIRA, ServiceNow; 8) Skilled with reporting tools such as PowerBI; and 9) on controls automation in Azure Technology is a plus.
Languages: Proficiency in English and Spanish is required, and one of the other Bank official languages (French or Portuguese) is preferred.
Requirements
Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
Type of contract and duration
-National Consultant (Local Remote Modality), 12 months (up to 36 months). Where the IDB Group has an office.
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employeeโs life. These benefits include:
Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
Savings plan: The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.
Our culture
At the IDB, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work while finding their purpose. Our people consistently strive for excellence, and we recognize and celebrate the impact of their contributions.
In our efforts to drive innovation, we intentionally include all voices, cultivate a sense of belonging and champion fairness. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us and share their unique perspectives.
We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job interview process. If you require an accommodation to complete this application, please email us at accommodations@iadb.org.
Our Human Resources Team carefully reviews every application.