Associate Product Owner, Data Platforms
Category | Grade:Professional | GFDeadline:11 Aug 2026Job ID:37870Posted on:27 Jul 2026
Overview
Owns and modernizes the World Bank’s enterprise data platform on Azure Databricks. The officer builds governed self-service lakehouse capabilities, controls cost and security, assures data quality, operates production services and guides engineers, analysts, vendors and product teams.
Department: ITS Data Office, Platforms and Tools Unit
Languages
Required: English
Minimum Experience
5 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Build and operate the Azure Databricks enterprise data platform
- Design governed self-service lakehouse and data-product capabilities
- Administer Unity Catalog, SQL warehouses, clusters and compute policies
- Establish dbt standards, testing, documentation and CI/CD integration
- Optimize platform cost and implement FinOps controls
- Enforce data governance, quality, security and regulatory compliance
- Lead production reliability, incident response and capacity planning
- Guide engineers, vendors and RFP evaluations
Requirements
- Master’s degree with five years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with seven years, or an equivalent combination
- Five to ten years of data-platform or platform-engineering experience
- SAFe or another relevant Agile certification
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
- English
Skills
Enterprise data-platform architectureAzure Databricks administrationLakehouse and data-mesh designData governance and quality managementCloud security and networkingFinOps and cost optimizationProduction reliability leadership
Tools
Azure DatabricksUnity CatalogdbtSQL WarehousesMicrosoft AzureCI/CDInfrastructure as Code
Additional info
- World Bank GF locally recruited position
- Three-year term appointment