Post of duty: Trinidad y Tobago.

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:

The Transport Division is developing a digital transformation plan that promotes the adoption and use of new technologies to help close the development gap in infrastructure services in Latin America and the Caribbean. The development of such digital transformation plans includes prototypes, pilots, and projects in which new technologies contribute to solving problems in the region. These activities include technologies such as Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and connectivity, use of drones and robots, video analysis and satellite images. The Transport Division is looking for a professional with experience in the appropriation of new technologies in the infrastructure realm with special attention to the transportation sector.

What you’ll do:

Support the Transport Division in Trinidad and Tobago and in the Caribbean region in activities such as origination, monitoring, execution, and deployment of the lending portfolio and the application of Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data, among others, to transport services in the Caribbean, which includes:

• Develop custom applications for visualization of civil works progress and coordinate required software/application development for data collection and backend development.
• Contributing to the execution of digital transformation plans and actively participating in the design and implementation of prototypes, pilots, and activities and components of projects that include application and use of new and innovative technologies in transport projects.
• Coordinate deployment of tools such as CaptuData, Pavimenta2, Field Data Collection, Resolv IMS, among others across the Caribbean region.
• Carry-on training to Caribbean agencies on Pavimenta2 and develop manuals for utilization of the tool as well as specific reporting and customized solutions to increase utilization.
• Identify, develop, and deploy technologies to monitor freight transport costs and time across transport modes.
• Analyzing and identifying the technologies and services offered by various firms and start-ups that can be applied to solve transportation problems in LAC.
• Define metrics and pro-poor technologies that can be implemented to support poverty alleviation.
• Supporting IDB´s work to build an infrastructure data lake and its components such as tables, databases, and Big Data repositories.
• Participating in the development of transport investment projects, public policy proposals, and regulation of new infrastructure technology and contributing to the elaboration of publications for the IDB.
• Contribute to the identification, design and preparation of loans and technical cooperation’s for potential projects that respond to the Country Strategy, seeking to strengthen the Bank’s multisectoral work in the Caribbean.
• Exploring and analyzing data from a variety of angles to determine weaknesses and to provide useful insights that help solve problems presented by TSP, using statistics and simple or advanced algorithms according to the complexity of the problems.
• Defining how to develop sophisticated analytical programs, including machine learning and statistical methods, to be used in predictive and prescriptive models in the context of dissemination and contextualization of information pertaining to a specific audience.
• Designing data visualizations, including heat maps, maps and reports using open-source software, to give the end user a better understanding of their information.