Manager, Corporate Digital Backbone

**Manager, Corporate Digital Backbone (ITSCD)**

**Job #**:

- req34358

**Organization**:

- World Bank

**Sector**:

- Information Technology

**Grade**:

- GH

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Singapore, Washington, DC or Sofia, Bulgaria

**Required Language(s)**:
**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 10/6/2025 (11:59pm UTC)

**Description**

Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity to help client countries solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending poverty on a livable planet.

The organization has undertaken an ambitious exercise to revise its mandate, products and structure to adjust to the multiple, intertwined crises affecting the world today (see **Evolution Roadmap**), in the move to becoming a better Bank.

**Business Unit Overview**

**Department Context**

The department comprises of four distinct but complementary units which work closely together to deliver on the department's mandate:

- Corporate Digital Acceleration unit: Accelerates digital transformation for corporate business functions through design thinking, digital innovation, rapid prototyping, reimagining processes, and AI enablement, e.g. AI-first work digitalization strategies.
- Corporate Experience Solutions unit: Delivers optimal digital experiences for WBG employees, clients, partners, shareholders, and beneficiaries through engaging, effective, and user-centric solutions, e.g. intranets, self service, work productivity and decision-support systems.
- Corporate Business Solutions unit: Enables critical corporate business processes and functions of the WBG through accurate, efficient, and resilient back-office systems, e.g. ERP systems supporting human resources and budget functions.**Unit Context**-
- **Analytics & AI for Corporate**: Delivers data and analytics capabilities for corporate functions that enable data-driven decision-making, embedded machine learning, and AI capabilities consistently and efficiently across all products in the corporate portfolio.
- **Corporate Autonomous Platform**: Delivers enterprise integration capabilities for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the corporate portfolio to enable efficient data exchange, automated business processes, and a unified view of operations.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The Manager will work closely with the Director and other Managers in the WBG Corporate Solutions department to ensure business transformation priorities, product and systems development, and technology capabilities are aligned and connected to maximize impact, efficiency, and value. The Manager will also closely coordinate with the Technology Office, Office of Information Security, and the Data Technology Office of the WBG to leverage enterprise standards and practices. The primary roles and responsibilities for this position include:
**Leadership & Strategic Planning**- Partner with business leaders and technology stakeholders to generate thought leadership, strengthen engagement, and co-create technology priorities for the corporate portfolio consistent with leading technology governance and investment frameworks (e.g. SAFe LPM).

**Application Modernization, Delivery Efficiency, & Autonomous Backbone**Oversee system integration, unified data flows, and architectural simplification to create a secure, interoperable, and autonomous backbone — powered by automation and agentic-AI — that supports consistent, intelligent operations across the WBG corporate portfolio.
- Achieve delivery excellence and ensure all portfolio initiatives, including the capital budget program, are managed to budget, timelines, and expected quality standards by understanding, quantifying and communicating impact, milestones, interdependence and value measures and playing a leadership role in managing risk, removing impediments, and ensuring interventions and escalations are meeting the overarching goals of the organization.**People Management & Culture Leadership**
- Form and develop a high‑performing, globally distributed team (Washington, Chennai, Sofia, Singapore, and other locations), setting clear objectives, coaching for growth, and enabling career development and succession planning.
- Increase organizational resilience by equipping staff with the mindsets, tools, and support systems needed to adapt to continuous changes, maintain productivity under uncertainty, and recover quickly from disruption. Emphasize innovation as a skill, a growth mindset, urgency, transparency and accountability in all that is done.
- Foster a psychologically safe, trust-based environment where feedback and diverse perspectives are encouraged and valued.
- Serve as a core member of the ITS management team, actively contributing to stra