Associate Senior Solutions Architect

The Associate Senior Solutions Architect provides hands-on architecture and engineering leadership for the Operations Workspace ecosystem at the World Bank. The role involves translating complex operational requirements into secure, scalable solutions across Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, .NET, Azure, APIs, data platforms, and AI services, including integrating Generative AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Operations Workspace and related products, aligning business outcomes, enterprise principles, security requirements and delivery constraints.
• Define target-state and transition architectures, solution options, architecture decision records, integration contracts, non-functional requirements and implementation roadmaps.
• Review designs and code for scalability, resilience, maintainability, interoperability, usability, performance and cost effectiveness.
• Identify systemic risks and technical debt, propose pragmatic remediation, and guide Agile Release Train and product teams through implementation trade-offs.
• Lead solution delivery teams through implementation, maintenance, release readiness and operational improvement of business-critical applications supporting Operations Workspace and related Operations product ecosystems.
• Lead application and data architecture modelling, component identification and solution quality reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and approved technology standards.
• Architect and implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Dataverse solutions, including data models, security roles, business rules, workflows, plug-ins, custom actions, Power Platform components and environment strategy.
• Design supported extension patterns using C#/.NET, the Dataverse SDK and APIs while minimizing fragile customization and preserving upgradeability.
• Guide integration of Dynamics 365 with SharePoint Online, Microsoft Graph, Azure services, enterprise data products and other operational systems.
• Define application lifecycle management practices for solutions, configuration, environment variables, connection references, test data and controlled promotion across environments.
• Personally design, code, test and demonstrate proofs of concept, technical spikes, reference implementations and minimum viable solutions.
• Develop secure APIs, services, plug-ins and integration components using C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core and RESTful patterns.
• Validate architecture choices through executable prototypes, performance tests and failure-mode testing before major delivery investment.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across user experience, application, integration, identity, data and infrastructure layers, and support teams during critical releases.
• Design API-led, event-driven and workflow-based integrations using appropriate Azure services, API management, messaging, serverless and container patterns.
• Apply identity-first design using Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, least privilege, secrets management and auditable authorization patterns, including B2E and approved external-access scenarios.
• Define observability using structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards and actionable alerts across application and integration components.
• Collaborate with data and platform teams to connect operational applications to governed data services, analytics products and structured and unstructured enterprise information.
• Design integrations with institutional systems and data platforms, including financing, trust funds, board operations, budgeting, SAP and enterprise data services, using supported APIs, events and workflow patterns.
• Architect document and content-management integrations across Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online and approved cloud services, including secure storage, metadata, retrieval and downstream AI processing.
• Design and prototype AI-enabled features and agentic workflows embedded in Operations Workspace, with explicit task boundaries, approved tools, controlled permissions, human review and failure handling.
• Integrate agents with Dynamics 365, enterprise APIs, documents, data platforms and business workflows using secure tool calling, structured outputs and reusable orchestration patterns.
• Apply retrieval-augmented generation, document intelligence and knowledge-grounding approaches where they improve operational workflows and decision support.
• Define evaluation, telemetry and guardrails for groundedness, task success, safety, latency, reliability and cost, and ensure Responsible AI, privacy, records and security requirements are addressed.
• Partner with information security teams on architecture reviews, threat modelling, control implementation, security testing and remediation evidence required for production approval.
• Establish and improve CI/CD pipelines for Dynamics 365 solutions, .NET services, infrastructure configuration and AI components using Azure DevOps or equivalent enterprise tooling.
• Embed automated unit, integration, contract, security, regression and performance testing into delivery pipelines, with quality gates, approvals, release evidence and rollback approaches.
• Apply both the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and a governed AI Development Lifecycle (ADLC), covering use-case framing, data and grounding readiness, prompt and tool versioning, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and change control.
• Create reusable templates, starter repositories, SDKs, reference pipelines, coding standards and implementation guidance that improve developer productivity and consistency.
• Translate operational needs into feasible technical choices and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide practical technical direction to internal teams and vendors, review deliverables against agreed architecture and quality expectations, and intervene hands-on where necessary.
• Mentor architects and engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, demonstrations and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Partner with product leadership to sequence enablers, reduce delivery risk and ensure technical work results in measurable operational value.
• Provide work-program oversight for internal and vendor delivery teams across locations, assess deliverable quality, remove technical blockers and hold suppliers accountable for agreed architecture, engineering and documentation standards.

Requirements

• Master's degree with at least eight years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree with at least ten years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, in computer science, software engineering, information systems or a related field.
• Substantial recent experience architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise applications using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse, .NET and Azure.
• Demonstrated hands-on contribution to production solutions, including personal coding, prototyping, integration, troubleshooting and deployment responsibilities.
• Experience leading complex delivery across internal staff, vendors and globally distributed teams in environments with strong governance, security and operational requirements.
• At least seven years of experience developing and maintaining large-scale solutions using C# and the Microsoft .NET ecosystem.
• At least five years of experience architecting Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Dataverse solutions and integrations with SharePoint Online, Azure services and enterprise or on-premises systems.
• Proven experience leading large, complex technical deliverables and globally distributed development teams, including vendor or offshore delivery, in environments with shifting priorities and multi-layered governance.
• Advanced Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Dataverse architecture, including data modelling, security, workflows, plug-ins, custom APIs, Power Platform extensibility and solution ALM.
• Advanced C# and modern .NET engineering, including ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, dependency injection, asynchronous programming, automated testing and secure coding.
• Strong Azure application architecture experience, including App Service, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Key Vault, Application Insights, storage and container-based deployment patterns.
• Strong systems integration capability across APIs, events, enterprise applications, Microsoft 365 services, SharePoint Online and data platforms.
• Hands-on CI/CD and DevSecOps experience, including source control, branching, build and release pipelines, infrastructure/configuration automation, quality gates, secrets handling and rollback.
• Practical experience designing or implementing Generative AI and agentic capabilities, including tool calling, orchestration, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluation, observability and human oversight.
• Ability to apply SDLC and ADLC controls to move prototypes into secure, supportable and production-ready services.
• Strong security architecture knowledge covering identity, authorization, least privilege, data protection, auditability, threat modelling and secure integration.
• Ability to produce clear architecture documentation and to explain decisions, alternatives, risks and trade-offs to varied audiences.
• Hands-on experience extending Dynamics 365 using C#/.NET plug-ins, custom APIs, workflows and supported client-side technologies, with strong knowledge of Dataverse security, data modelling and reporting capabilities.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID, including B2E and approved B2B scenarios.

Skills

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Architecture
• Dataverse Architecture
• C# Development
• Microsoft .NET Ecosystem
• .NET Core
• REST API Development
• Azure App Service
• Azure Cloud Functions
• Azure API Management
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure KeyVault
• Azure AppInsights
• Azure Storage Account
• Container Deployment
• System Integration
• SharePoint Integration
• Power Platform Extensibility
• Solution ALM
• CI/CD
• DevSecOps
• Source Control Systems
• Build and Release Pipeline Management
• Infrastructure Automation
• Configuration Automation
• Quality Gates
• Secrets Handling
• Rollback Procedures
• Generative AI Implementation
• Agentic Capabilities
• SDLC Controls
• ADLC Controls
• Security Architecture
• Identity and Authorization
• Least Privilege Security
• Data Protection
• Threat Modelling
• Secure Integration
• Architecture Documentation
• Microsoft Entra ID Management
• B2E and B2B Authentication

Languages

English