Post of duty: Headquarters โ Washington, DC, United States.
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
ITE/ITO โ Convergence Team
The ITE department is looking for a Cloud Solution Architect with experience building cloud native apps and building and maturing CI/CD pipelines.
ITE is responsible for formulating the Bankโs IT Strategy, its implementation and providing related tools, solutions, and services. It is also the focal point for all IT services, infrastructure, applications, architecture, policies and security at Headquarters and Country Offices aiming to become even more business aligned, customer centric and agile.
The Departmental Operations team in the Information Technology Department (ITE/ITO) is responsible for maintenance and support of External Client Portal, External Accounts Provisioning System, Procurement Information System, Compliance System, and other applications critical to the business of the Bank.
Youโll be working in an environment where software is maintained in a deployable state throughout its lifecycle, and where the team prioritizes keeping the software in a deployable state over working on new features.
What youโll do:
Collaborate with Project Managers, Product Owners, and developers to design Cloud Native solutions.
Strong business judgement to make the right decision about technology choices.
- Ensure solutions rely on test automation to guarantee resiliency of the software solutions developed.
- Integrate security in the design and testing phases of software development.
- Work as a technical SME and help to drive discussions, prioritization and decision making to internal and external teams.
- Present technical and non-technical information articulately to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Establish guidelines to increase the quality of the software solutions to be designed and developed.
What you'll need
- Education: Bachelorโs degree in any of the following fields: Computer Sciences, Information Technology, or related area. Cloud technical certifications are a plus.
- Experience: At least 2 years of progressive experience as a .NET full stack developer who has evolved into a Cloud Solution Architect. Modern programming languages and frameworks: C#, SQL, Entity Framework Knowledge in the design and support of Cloud Native Apps and DevOps tools & practices. Cloud Technologies: MS Azure. Should demonstrate relevant work experience and skills designing and maintaining IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions with good understanding of network, security and cost implications. Microsoft Azure official certifications like AZ900, AZ204, AZ400 are plus. Cloud IaC: Terraform, ARM, Azure CLI, Powershell. CI/CD: Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, JFrog. Security: Good understanding of modern authentication mechanisms, SSO, Azure AD / B2C, CORS and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. APIs: Good use of RESTFull and HTTP Protocol, Azure APIM and Swagger. Testing: Writing unit and integration tests for C#, and APIs in general using code and/or tools like Postman or Specflow. Monitoring: Datadog, Azure Monitor.
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills:
- Passionate about designing and leading Cloud Native Apps.
- Understand and apply integration design patterns in the solutions you create.
- Advocate for clean software architecture components that are testable, maintainable, changeable, and independent.
- Advocate for keeping software that can be deployed to production at any time, on demand.
- Self-driven, responsible, and organized to keep work tracked daily.
- Demonstrate technical leadership and expertise to influence outside of immediate team.
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:
- Type of contract: International Consultant Full-Time.
- Length of contract: 11.5 months. Contract may be extended up to 36 months based on business requirements and consultant's performance.
- Work Location: On site.
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employeeโs life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation packages.
- Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
- Savings plan: โโโโโโโThe 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