Associate Senior AI Solutions Officer

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9 v=VTFGffa1Y7w Unit Context: The WBG Corporate Solutions Department (ITSCO) is focused on the digital transformation of essential corporate services to ensure WBG operations are seamless, resilient, and future ready. Uniting digitalization roadmaps, experience design, process optimization, application delivery, systems management, and technology modernization across some various products and services within the corporate domain. The department links business ambition with operational excellence—from intuitive employee experiences and precision payroll to data-driven decision making, intelligent automation, and AI enablement. The Corporate Digital Backbone unit creates an autonomous digital backbone for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the diverse corporate portfolio, e.g. application modernization, technology debt reduction, efficient data exchange, advanced analytics, enterprise integration, automated business processes, and agentic-AI. • Routinely leads complex projects and integrates work of other (often multidisciplinary) professional staff, contributes to strategy, analysis and policy formulation, and provides advice to functional management in area of specialization to contribute to functional area’s long-term objectives. • Identifies and evaluates overall systemic issues and analyzes complex issues. • Collaborates and partners with internal stakeholders on matters of strategic importance for the area of focus and department, may interact with external stakeholders to support department objectives. • Provides guidance, coaching, and training to more junior staff within the role area, serving as an authoritative expert and key resource for other professionals and leadership. • Requires comprehensive and in-depth expertise either in a broad area of specialization or in a narrowly specialized field. Duties and accountabilities: Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership • Provide technical direction and guidance across multiple AI initiatives. • Review architectures, designs, and implementation approaches. • Mentor AI Solutions Officers and promote best practices. Agentic AI Architecture Delivery • Lead the design of AI agents, orchestration solutions, MCP servers, APIs, and knowledge platforms. • Establish reusable architectures, design patterns, and implementation standards. • Coordinate delivery of complex AI-enabled business solutions. Portfolio Delivery Operations • Oversee implementation, operational readiness, and solution performance. • Drive continuous improvement across AI initiatives. Governance Stakeholder Leadership •Ensure compliance with enterprise AI governance, security, and responsible AI requirements. •Serve as the primary technical liaison between business stakeholders and Enterprise AI teams.