Data Engineer

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects, and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative changes around the globe. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org. VPU Context: The Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) is the World Bank’s central reservoir of fresh insights into the most pressing challenges of development. It is led by the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Group, who advises the President and senior managers, serves as the community leader for the WBG’s economists, and helps to keep the institution in the forefront of thinking about development policy. DEC constitutes one of the world’s largest teams of economists focused on policy solutions for developing economies. Unit Context: The mission of the Office of the World Bank Chief Statistician and Director of the Development Data Group (DECDG) is to put data to work for development. DECDG provides technical expertise and support both internally and to countries with a range of data and statistics priorities, including development indicators, methods, standards, and tools for data work; support for data governance; and promotion of better use and management of development data. DECDG prizes innovation and partnership, validating and incorporating new technologies, working closely with partners, and serving as an interface to the global development data community. Expanding and modernizing development data production, management and governance in support of the World Bank Knowledge Compact, ensuring World Bank is a “data bank” is critical to our mission. To address this, the Data Management Services team is leading Data360, the Bank’s central development data production and dissemination framework to improve accessibility, management and dissemination of the WBG’s own data assets; and production of high quality statistical indicators and data products to help improve development outcomes. To advance this work, DECDG seeks an experienced Data Engineer and Architect to lead the design and implementation of the Data360 data production and dissemination system. Duties and accountabilities: Duties will include, but not be limited to, the following: •Develop and implement robust technical and business processes for ingestion, production, management, and dissemination of statistical and geospatial data, ensuring alignment with the WBG Development Data Quality Policy. •Architect and implement the Data360 framework for “self-service” production and publishing of development indicators across the organization at scale, including integration with existing platforms such as .Stat Suite, World Bank Data Catalog and Metadata Editor. •Design and implement reusable functions, packages and libraries to support robust, automated data pipelines that extract, transform, validate and load information in multiple information systems using Python or R. •Develop CI/CD processes and policies for managing code repositories, issue tracking and pipeline orchestration for DECDG-managed data processes. •Assess, recommend, and implement capabilities related to metadata, data lineage, data management and data quality improvement efforts. •Provide guidance and mentoring to other team members on good data engineering practices in Python and R, metadata and data management techniques and methodologies. •Actively collaborate with business data stewards and task teams to implement various data projects and initiatives including leading data management efforts for key data platforms, such as the Global Food Nutrition Security Dashboard, and their alignment with Data360 frameworks. •Serve as a liaison between Business and Information Technology departments to ensure that data related business requirements for governing data are clearly defined, communicated, well understood and considered as part of solution planning and implementation. •Stay updated with and transfer knowledge and practice around the latest data management methods and best practices in data governance.