ET Consultant - Cloud & Data Centers

World Bank seeks an Extended Term Consultant in Washington, D.C. to advise governments on cloud adoption and digital infrastructure. The consultant will develop diagnostics and migration roadmaps, modernize legacy IT systems, guide disaster recovery architectures, prepare policy and knowledge products, structure investments, and advise on AI deployment, data governance and MLOps.

• Advise governments on cloud adoption and digital-infrastructure strategies
• Develop cloud-readiness diagnostics, migration roadmaps and reference architectures
• Support legacy-system modernization through structured cloud-migration approaches
• Guide disaster recovery, continuity, cybersecurity and high-availability architectures
• Develop policy notes and knowledge products on cloud, data hosting and AI readiness
• Advise on AI deployment, data governance and AI-ready enterprise architectures

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field with at least five years experience
• At least five years cloud adoption or enterprise IT-modernization experience
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Strong understanding of cloud services, data centers, connectivity and AI infrastructure

• French, Portuguese or Spanish fluency
• Experience structuring technology investments and commercial viability models
• Emerging-market experience

• Cloud adoption
• Digital infrastructure
• Cloud migration
• Data governance
• Cybersecurity
• Enterprise architecture

• Official term duration: 1 year 0 months