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
As Tech Leader Archetype in the IDB Group's Digital Transformation Program, your role will be fundamental to lead and guide the development of technological solutions that facilitate the digital transformation of the organization.
This position involves designing and developing robust and scalable solutions and collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams to connect people, technology, data and processes with a holistic and transversal vision. In addition, your experience in cloud services integrations, software development, and data architecture will be key to drive innovation and optimize workflows in the organization.
What you’ll do:
o Guide product team engineers: Provide technical direction and decision making to ensure the feasibility and success of the product.
o Collaboration: Coordinate between software engineers, architects, and QA analysts to ensure cohesive development efforts.
o Define and drive the technical vision and strategy of the product.
o Make high-level design decisions, establish technical standards, and review architectural choices, work closely with ITE Enablers (Architecture, Security, Data, Integrations, etc.)
o Oversee the technical development process to ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, and secure. Provide guidance on best practices in coding, design, and development methodologies.
o Lead the development of high-quality software solutions, including writing code, performing code reviews, and ensuring adherence to coding standards, automated testing and code quality.
- Assessing the technology stack:
o Compatibility: Ensuring the new products' features align with the existing technology infrastructure.
o Modernization needs: Identifying any necessary upgrades or potential changes to the current technology stack.
- Scalability and performance:
o Load handling: Ensuring the system can manage increased user loads and data volume.
o Performance metrics: Monitoring key performance indicators to maintain optimal speed and responsiveness.
o System interoperability: Verifying that the product can integrate seamlessly with other systems and applications.
o API (Application Programming Interface) usage: Utilizing APIs for smooth data exchange and functionality integration.
- Risk identification and mitigation:
o Technical risks: Identifying and resolving technical challenges, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring development stays on track.
o Resource allocation: Ensuring adequate resources are available to address technical risks and challenges.
- Working with a product mindset:
o Collaborate with Project Managers and/or Product Owners to define project requirements, scope, timelines, and resources.
o Serve as the technical liaison between development teams and other stakeholders, including product managers, clients, and other departments.
o Develop and manage the technical roadmap for projects, including planning sprints and assigning tasks and ensure that development activities align with project goals and deliverables.
o Make key technical decisions and provide expert advice on technical issues. Manage the technical aspects of the development lifecycle, including planning, coding, testing, and deployment.
What you'll need:
- Education: You hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of combined experience in software development, solutions architecture, cloud integration architecture, and/or data architecture.
- Languages: You are proficient in English and in another Bank official language (Spanish, Portuguese, and/or French).
- Certifications: Desirable at least the foundations levels Fundamentals (Azure) Practitioner (AWS) any other is a plus.
Key Skills:
- Proficiency building and consuming APIs and/or web services (SOA, REST, XML, JSON, OData), including authorization and authentication standards (SAML, OAuth, WebAuth, ADFS) as well as tracing APIs using SoapUI, ReadyAPI or Fiddler. As well as documenting the API using Swagger and OpenAPI standards.
- Solid understanding of SOA and/or microservices architectures as well as their correspondent implementation using serverless or containerized infrastructures.
- Familiarity with modern web development concepts/frameworks such as SPA, SPFx, Angular, React, Dojo, etc.
- Proficiency in designing, architecting, and implementing integration solutions for IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS environments.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
- Proficiency with relational databases.
- Experience making automated tests (unit, integration, e2e, contract) and frameworks like xUnit, Playwright. Quality driven mindset.
- Experience with code versioning and issue tracking tools (Atlassian environment is preferred).
- Experience working leading agile cross-functional team (team-based mentality). Helping other teammates strengthen their skill sets and work together to get the best end results to support business and technology needs.
- Excellent documentation (writing and diagramming), interpersonal, and communication skills.
Specializations depending on the project:
· Any other specific technology.
Requirements:
- Citizenship: IDB: You are either a citizen of one of our 48-member countries eligible to obtain a valid residency or legal permit to work in that country without the need for sponsorship by the IDB.
- 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.
- Remote Modality: The selected candidate will not provide services from the Bank’s office and will not be provided a physical space on the premises of the Bank’s Country Office. The candidate selected will be responsible for setting up the space, and for having the equipment, internet, and phone accesses to accomplish these TORs, outside the Bank’s office. Access to the Bank’s systems will be arranged in coordination with the Bank.
Type of contract and duration:
- Type of contract: National Consultant (National Remote Modality).
- Length of contract: 12 months. Contract may be extended up to 36 months based on business requirements and consultant's performance.
- Work Location: Remote.
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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