E T Consultant- (Cloud & Data Centers)

World Bank Group; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

World Bank Group seeks an experienced ET Consultant- (Cloud & Data Centers) to advise on modernization of national digital infrastructure. You will guide cloud adoption, data center strategy, and AI infrastructure plans for governments, with emphasis on resilience, security, and long-term sustainability.

Role requires extensive cloud modernization experience, strong stakeholder engagement, and ability to operate across diverse markets. International travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field with extensive experience in cloud and data-center modernization.
• 10+ years in cloud adoption, IT modernization, or related areas.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and services including generative AI and LLMs.
• Experience structuring technology investments and engaging with private sector providers.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder engagement skills; ability to translate technical concepts into strategy.
• Experience working in emerging markets.
• Fluency in English; French/Portuguese/Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical advisory on modernization of public-sector digital infrastructure, including cloud adoption and data centers.
• Guide transitions to interoperable, scalable, and resilient digital infrastructure across governments.
• Lead cloud readiness diagnostics, migration roadmaps, and reference architectures.
• Advise on cyber resilience, disaster recovery, and high availability within government cloud strategies.
• Support legacy modernization through cloud migration approaches and structured frameworks.
• Identify public and private investment opportunities in cloud and AI infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud adoption

Enterprise IT modernization

AI/ML concepts

Stakeholder engagement

Emerging markets experience

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field

Job description

E T Consultant- (Cloud & Data Centers)

Location: Washington, DC, United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): French, Portuguese, and/or Spanish

Closing Date: 11/11/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org

The Knowledge Bank is the World Bank Group’s platform for generating, curating, and applying global knowledge to support development impact at scale. It connects operational experience, analytical work, data, and global expertise to inform policy dialogue, country programs, and investments across the World Bank Group.

The World Bank Group’s Digital & AI Vice Presidency (Digital VPU) leads global efforts to accelerate digital transformation and responsible AI adoption in developing countries. The VPU integrates operational, advisory, and knowledge capabilities to help countries advance digital access and affordability, digital infrastructure, digital public infrastructure, and AI readiness to support the development of AI-ready, investment-attractive digital infrastructure ecosystems in client countries.

Role & Responsibilities:

Digital Transformation, Cloud & Sovereign Digital Infrastructure

• Provide strategic and technical advisory to governments on the modernization of public-sector digital infrastructure, including cloud adoption, data hosting, data centers, and emerging AI infrastructure, with a focus on improving resilience, security, and long-term sustainability.
• Guide governments in transitioning from fragmented and legacy technology environments toward modern, interoperable, scalable and resilient digital infrastructure, including cloud migration, application modernization, enterprise architecture, and government-wide infrastructure rationalization.
• Lead and develop cloud readiness diagnostics, migration roadmaps, and infrastructure reference architectures (public, hybrid, sovereign models)
• Advise on cyber resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, and geographic redundancy, embedding resilience considerations into broader government cloud and data infrastructure strategies.
• Support the modernization of legacy systems through structured cloud migration approaches (e.g., 7R framework, well-architected principles).
• Support the identification, structuring and assessment of public and private investment opportunities in cloud, data centers and AI infrastructure, including engagement with hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center operators, investors, and AI infrastructure providers

AI Digital Infrastructure

• Lead assessments of national and public-sector AI compute requirements, including training, fine-tuning and inference workloads, utilization patterns, latency and data sensitivity requirements, and implications for capacity planning, demand aggregation, shared-access models, GPU-as-a-Service, public-private partnerships and other approaches that can expand access to advanced compute while reducing the risks of underutilization, technological obsolescence and large upfront capital investments.
• Advise governments on build, buy and share strategies for AI compute, helping determine when countries should invest in domestic GPU infrastructure and AI data centers, leverage regional or shared infrastructure, or procure scalable compute through cloud and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) models.
• Advise on the development of sustainable AI compute markets, including demand aggregation, shared-access models, GPU-as-a-Service, public-private partnerships and other approaches that can expand access to advanced compute while reducing the risks of underutilization, technological obsolescence and large upfront capital investments.
• Advise on AI deployment architectures across cloud, centralized, distributed and edge/Small AI environments, aligning infrastructure choices with use cases, cost, latency, connectivity, resilience, sovereignty and operating capacity.
• Provide strategic guidance on AI infrastructure sovereignty and resilience, helping governments identify which capabilities require domestic control, which can be sourced through global or regional providers, and where mechanisms such as sovereign cloud, distributed infrastructure and digital embassies can strengthen resilience without unnecessarily constraining access to innovation.

Some international travel will be required.

Selection Criteria:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field, with at least Eight years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in cloud adoption, enterprise IT modernization, or related fields.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and services, including generative AI, large language models
• Experience in structuring or advising on technology investments, including commercial viability, cost models, and engagement with private sector providers
• Strong understanding of digital infrastructure ecosystems, including cloud services, data centers, connectivity, and emerging AI infrastructure needs.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into strategic guidance.
• Experience working in emerging markets.
• Fluency in English required (written and spoken); French, Portuguese, and/or Spanish strongly preferred

WBG Culture Attributes:

• Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
• Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
• Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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