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The Information Technology Department Data & Economics Economic Lifecycle Engineering Section (ITDDEEL) is looking to fill an Economic Data Systems Engineer position. Under the direction of a Section Chief, this Economic Data System Engineer serves as a member of the Economic Data Lifecycle Engineering Section and should provide Fund-wide services on Economic Data Lifecycle Engineering. These services are associated with the Fund’s business capabilities of surveillance, lending, and capacity development. Specifically, the services Section offers include designing and implementing economic data systems that span from data acquisition to sharing through transformation and migration. The selected candidate will be responsible to explore, identify, assess, and provide data engineering and technical services that support the entire data lifecycle. In addition, the selected candidate will advise economists and financial experts on specialized support in managing their various economic services and systems, including the assessing requirements and solution design and implementation. The selected candidate will also be responsible of delivering data engineering services while accounting for solutions’ aspects of risks, availability, scalability, reusability, performance, and integrity.
The main responsibilities of the Economic System Engineer include:
- Leading day-to-day operations of economic data systems including supporting economic data products as a part of the Economic Data Lifecycle Engineering;
- Providing engineering designs for economic data systems and platforms to enable the IMF’s core business capabilities including surveillance, lending, and capacity development;
- Managing and monitoring installed economic data systems and solutions and associated IT infrastructure to ensure smooth production operations;
- Agile development of proof of concepts, automation tools and utilities to complement domain business platform capabilities.
- Has a thorough understanding of the full lifecycle of economic data management activities at the Fund.
Additionally, the selected candidate must demonstrate the following skills and experiences:
- Has experience with Economic data solutions and is expert with the use of SDMX.
- Has created specialized data solutions related to knowledge graph and its modeling and ontology design.
- Has experience in graph databases.
- Has experience in data, both structured and non-structured, search technologies.
- Has experience in Azure Cognitive Services with proved implementations on large scale projects with APIs integrations using Python, Java, Scala, and SQL.
- Has experience managing capacity, growth, and day to day operations for large data management platforms.
- Has a thorough understanding of architecting complex data solutions and is well versed at Data Analysis, Data integrity, Business Intelligence, Database planning and design, and Data Discovery.
- Understand and implement new technology projects such as Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, etc.
- Fluent in Python, .Net, SQL Server, SQL Lite, R etc.
- Has experience with Data Mining, Search, and No SQL technologies.
Minimum Qualifications
- An advanced university degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, degree plus minimum of four years of relevant professional experience or a bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline plus ten years of relevant professional experience is required.
- Strong understanding of economic data and associated data models
- Proven experience and specialty knowledge of economic data systems and IT service management
- Proven experience of cloud computing, data modeling, data quality, and data security
Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides technical expertise in coordination with solutions owners, projects managers and technical leads of development teams to systematically enhance and enrich economic data solutions capabilities while adhering to the enterprise architecture and technology related policies.
- Participates in the technology planning with solutions owners, product owners, and other key stakeholders, and contributes to creation and implementation of solutions’ roadmap.
- Provides technical expertise in coordination with solutions owners, product owners, and business stakeholders to review user requests and assesses technical options.
- Maintains economic data systems, supports economic data products, and the integration with productivity applications on the enterprise platform to ensure adequate quality assurance performed prior to the enterprise wide deployment of operating system updates and security patches.
- Configures, manages, monitors, and provides tuning to installed economic data system solutions and associated IT infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Provides technical expertise in conducting workshops with various stakeholders to examine the current solutions as a part of the economic data lifecycle engineering advancement and to recommend measures to improve performance.
- Performs technical investigation and troubleshooting of production incidents.
- Takes on the responsibility of managing system administrator or privileged service accounts for key economic systems.
- Monitors and analyzes economic data system usages statistics; and recommends optimization procedures for the business domain platform and associated product families.
- Advises application development team on the adoption of enterprise data and metadata standards, and enterprise tools and technologies.
- Provides advice, guidance, and assistance to junior colleagues as needed.
This vacancy shall be filled by a 3-year Term appointment in accordance with the Fund’s new employment rules that took effect on May 1, 2015.
A regular staff member who is selected to fill the vacancy will maintain their open-ended status. If the selected candidate is a contractual employee, they will be offered a Term staff appointment. Staff members already on a term appointment will continue their current term but may receive an extension provided that their current term appointment has not already been extended.
Department:
ITDDEEL Information Technology Department Data & Economics Economic Lifecycle Engineering Section
Hiring For:
A11, A12
The IMF is committed to achieving a diverse staff, including age, creed, culture, disability, educational background, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, nationality, race, religion and beliefs, and sexual orientation. We welcome requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities during the selection process.
