Associate Senior Data Scientist

Associate Senior Data Scientist

Job #:

req36378

Organization:

World Bank

Sector:

Information Technology

Grade:

GG

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type:

Local Recruitment

Location:

Chennai, Sofia and Singapore

Required Language(s):

English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

5/1/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients 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 extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org

ITS Vice Presidency Context:

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w

Unit Context:

The WBG Corporate Solutions Department (ITSCO) is focused on the digital transformation of essential corporate services to ensure WBG operations are seamless, resilient, and future ready. Uniting digitalization roadmaps, experience design, process optimization, application delivery, systems management, and technology modernization across some 170 products and services, the department links business ambition with operational excellence—from intuitive employee experiences and precision payroll to data-driven decision making, intelligent automation, and AI enablement.

The ITS Corporate Solutions (ITSCO) department provides specialized IT services to the World Bank Group’s (WBG) most critical corporate functions. We partner with the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA to deliver robust, secure, and innovative technology solutions supporting Budget, Procurement, Human Resources, the Board, External Communications, Travel, Ethics & Internal Justice, and many more. Given the sensitivity and complexity of these functions, ITSCO ensures that corporate data is a strategic asset, driving operational efficiency and informed decision-making across the WBG.

The Corporate Digital Backbone unit creates an autonomous digital backbone for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the diverse corporate portfolio, e.g. application modernization, technology debt reduction, efficient data exchange, advanced analytics, enterprise integration, automated business processes, and agentic-AI.

Role Purpose:

The Associate Senior Data Scientist is responsible for leading the extraction of meaningful insights from data assets to support informed organizational decisionmaking. As a subject matter expert in Data Solutions, this role leads the design and execution of data governance and analytics initiatives, manages collaboration with stakeholders, and leads the development of statistical models, predictive models and machine learning techniques to solve complex business problems. This role is for the Analytics for Corporate team which delivers data and analytics capabilities for corporate functions that enable data-driven decision-making consistently and efficiently across all products in the corporate portfolio.

• Routinely leads complex projects and integrates work of other (often multi-disciplinary) professional staff and contributes to strategy, analysis and policy formulation.
• Identifies and evaluates overall systemic issues and analyzes complex issues.
• Collaborates and partners with internal stakeholders on matters of strategic importance for the area of focus, may interact with external stakeholders to support department objectives.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and training to more junior staff within the role area, serving as a subject matter expert resource for other professionals.
• Requires comprehensive and in-depth expertise either in a broad area of specialization or in a narrowly specialized field.

Key Responsibilities:

Analytics Integration

• Manages analytical and advisory services or operational work in core areas of data science.
• Leads the development of a data governance framework that includes clear guidelines for data classification, ownership, and stewardship.
• Leverages statistical concepts, practice, and theory, and knowledge of probabilities to guide clients and/or stakeholders in id