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ITE/IPP Solutions Architect Consultant
Location: Headquarters – 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
We are looking for an experienced professional to work on the ITE/IPP Policy and Planning Division as a Solutions Architect with proficiency in designing, architecting, and implementing solutions for SaaS (Software as a Service), and PaaS (Platform as a Services) environment, and advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for secure, scalable, and reliable Cloud-native solutions.
What you’ll do :
You will report to the Enterprise Architecture Team Leader in the Information Technology Policy & Planning Division. Following are the most important activities you will be doing to move forward the IT Project and Portfolio Management program towards its goals:
- You will develop web applications that address failure patterns, automate remediation through runbooks, and document processing optimization
- Working with other development teams to evaluate the health, stability, and reliability of applications
- Must have hands-on experience on Dashboard building and synthetic recording scripting
- Utilizing monitoring, alerts, dashboards, and management tools to ensure the availability, reliability and performance of applications and services
- Optimizing all the time to improve and implement automation of applications tasks
- As part of the team, you will be working in a cloud-native environment, with .NET, C# and Angular as your core tools, while leveraging the whole toolbox of other technologies as they fit best
- You will be working not only on the core automation development but also on customizations and 3rd party integrations
- Creating, Managing, Updating and Monitoring the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) Cluster Nodes
- Working with application teams to onboard services and applications
- Work with the APM architecture to provide guidelines and recommendations for affective alerting for multi-disciplinary teams
- Performance Management will also involve both OnPrem Private Cloud in association with any of the Public Clouds (Azure and Amazon Web Services).
What you’ll need
Education: M aster’s degree or equivalent the equivalent combination of education and experience in any of the following fields: Computer Sciences, Information Technology, or related area.
Experience: s uccessful candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate skills with a minimum of five years in the following areas:
- Cloud: MS Azure (AWS is a plus). Should demonstrate relevant work experience and skills designing and maintaining cloud solutions with IaaS or PaaS. With good understanding of the network, security, and cost implications.
- Modern programming languages : .NET, C#, Angular
- Database: MSSQL, Azure SQL, CosmosDB
- Cloud IaC : Terraform, ARMs, Azure CLI, Powershell.
- CI/CD: Platform administration and management: Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, JFrog.
- Modern Authentication: Azure AD, Azure BC2, with a good knowledge and use of modern authentication mechanisms (OAuth2).
- APIs: Good knowledge of RESTful and HTTP Protocol, Azure API Management and Swagger.
- Automated Testing: Hands on experience on Automated Test (Playwright, Specflow and Gherkin)
- Monitoring : Datadog, Azure Monitoring.
Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.
Key skills :
- Learn continuously
- Collaborate and share knowledge
- Focus on clients
- Communicate and influence
- Innovate and try new things
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbally, within a professional services business environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge and proven experience in managing IT-related projects is required.
- Strong teamwork, analytical, and problem-solving skills are required.
Requirements:
- Citizenship1: You must be a citizen of one of our 48-member countries, and a citizen or permanent resident of a country where the IDB has a Country Office
- 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.
- COVID-19 considerations: the health and safety of our employees are our number one priority. As a condition of employment, IDB/IDB Invest requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Type of contract and duration:
- Type of contract: Consultant Full Time
- Location: Headquarters – Washington, DC, United States
- Length of contract: 24 months
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation package
- Leave 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 : The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules
- Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
Our culture
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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Additional Information
- External Opening Date: Jun 20, 2023
- External Closing Date: Aug 1, 2023
- Job Field: Technical Support