E T Consultant

E T Consultant

Job #: req38480 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology Grade: EC3 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 10/14/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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

ITS Vice Presidency 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 Digital Solutions team delivers modern productivity, collaboration, and endpoint solutions to over 30,000 users. We support Microsoft 365, Documents and Records Management in SharePoint, WebEx, Power Platform, and AI tools like Copilot, Google Gemini, and Grammarly, while engineering, deploying, and supporting Windows Endpoints. We are a collaborative, customer-focused team committed to solving problems with reliable, impactful technology.

Duties and accountabilities:

The position holder will play a critical role in designing, engineering, and optimizing modern collaboration solutions on SharePoint Online and the associated Microsoft 365 platforms/suite. This position requires close engagement with pro‑developers, system owners, and cross-functional IT stakeholders to enable secure, scalable, and innovative outcomes.

• Manage, architect, and optimize SharePoint Online as a modern application platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and adherence to governance frameworks.
• Engineer and support SPFx solutions, React-based custom components, extensions, and integrations.
• Leverage Microsoft Graph API and SharePoint REST API to enhance automation, reporting, integration, and lifecycle management.
• Design and implement solutions using Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and other cloud-native services to extend SharePoint capabilities.
• Design and deliver automation and workflow solutions using Power Automate, PowerShell, PnP and Graph API to streamline team and platform operations.
• Modernize legacy SharePoint applications into SharePoint Online, SPFx, Power Platform, or Azure-native solutions.
• Support integration of SharePoint with internal and external systems, ensuring secure handling of identities, tokens, and access flows.
• Assist developers with best‑practice development patterns, solution deployment, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling.

Selection Criteria

Mandatory Skills:

• Typically requires a Master''s degree with 8 years of experience or a Bachelor''s degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience administering and building solutions on Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online
• Proven experience delivering SPFx, React JS, Graph API, and automation solutions
• Strong background in security, compliance, and governance across Microsoft 365 platforms
• Programming and scripting expertise (PowerShell, JavaScript/TypeScript, Power Platform; Python optional)
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations

Desired Skills:

• Strong functional knowledge of Microsoft Teams, Copilot, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Planner/To Do, Outlook/Exchange
• Migration and Governance tool knowledge (ShareGate, Syskit, etc.)
• Ability to work within SAFe or similar Agile delivery methodologies

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

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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.