** Open to this position being 100% remote WFH

Join the team which is helping to lead innovation at Nationwide in analytical, technical, and business capacities with many firsts at Nationwide.  An ideal candidate is passionate about both being technically advanced and delivering business solutions where you enjoy working directly with business users and managers, and receiving compliments for your results.

You should be working in an advanced analytics environment that is using the best technical products from streaming tools, Spark, Python, ML/AI tools, and Snowflake in AWS.  The business environment is one where you will have opportunities to work in combined business and technical teams or user groups to focus on delivering business solutions with substantial value.  You will get to see the “fruits of your labor” with both business and IT leader feedback, and not feel that you are disconnected from seeing tangible results.

The role is a poly skilled role so you can wear many hats from data analyst, designer, coder, and tester in the data engineering role so you can deliver high-quality solutions with velocity.  You will work in an agile team with a data product owner and with business stories so you have a good understanding of the business value desired. This role will have the creativity/ freedom to work with the business on how to design and build the business solution with some architectural guidelines.

A suitable background for this data engineering role is a current analytics solution builder, who has an IT background but may have also worked in a business department building analytical solutions directly for a business leader.  The technical background is someone who is currently a big data engineer or maybe working on legacy technologies such as Hadoop, and other environments where strong SQL or other programming language skills has been developed.  Nationwide offers extensive training to advance your skills from DataBricks and Python classes, and business training so you can advance your business and data expertise in a specific business domain like claims processing.  A $5K tuition reimbursement is also offered after one year so you can take university classes in AI, ML, or other areas of interest.

Nationwide currently has undertaken a massive analytics transformation program that will allow you to get in on the “ground floor” and become a key part of Nationwide’s analytical future.  You will have the opportunity to create new capabilities with little “legacy” or required enhancement of existing code. 

Location flexibility exists and competitive compensation is offered with this exciting challenge and role.

** Open to this position being 100% remote WFH

Compensation Grade: H4

Colorado Residents: Email taproces@nationwide.com for salary information.

Job Description Summary

Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you.

As a Data Engineer you’ll be responsible for acquiring, curating, and publishing data for analytical or operational uses. Data should be in a ready-to-use form that creates a single version of the truth across all data consumers, including business users, data scientists, and Technology. Ready-to-use data can be for both real time and batch data processes and may include unstructured data. Successful data engineers have the skills typically required for the full lifecycle software engineering development from translating requirements into design, development, testing, deployment, and production maintenance tasks. You’ll have the opportunity to work with various technologies from big data, relational and SQL databases, unstructured data technology, and programming languages.

Job Description

Nationwide Insurance, a top ten P&C insurer and ranked in the top fifty places to work in the U.S. by Gallup, is seeking a tech lead data engineer. 

If you enjoy working with advanced tech stacks, designing, and creating analytical pipeline and accelerators, leading and mentoring other data engineers, and working with business and data consumers to make the data ready for analysis and decisions, this is a position that you will thrive in and enjoy. 

Compensation is competitive that also includes a bonus. 

The position is remote although quarterly travel to Columbus, Ohio for a one-week stay may be required.

A strong candidate for the Senior Consultant Data Engineer will have many of the following experiences or skills:

• Prior experience as a tech lead with responsibilities from design, build, testing, and production support.
• Prior experience in an analytics organization with end-to-end experience from data engineering, data modeling, and delivering data thru BI tools.
• Prior experience in a business area where you worked with business users who used the output from a team or project that you led.
• Prior experience using Cloud and Spark technologies to build analytical pipelines in both streaming and daily batch data pipelines.
• Still enjoy some hands-on time to program in Spark, Python, SQL, and test new software solutions for JSON,  text document parsing, and images.
• Prior experience in agile and program management methodologies.

• You will be joining an organization that has pioneered innovations for Nationwide analytics capabilities and has delivered the first historical set of data across all Nationwide lines of business into one data model.  The team enjoys working together and achieving results.  If interested in this role, please use the link below to apply.  You will receive feedback within five days.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to AVP or above Data Leader.

Education:  Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, business, statistics, math, a related field or comparable experience and education strongly preferred.  Graduate studies in business, statistics, math, computer science or a related field are a plus.

License/Certification/Designation:  Certifications are not required but encouraged.

Experience:  Ten or more years of relevant experience with database management, data centric applications.  Extensive experience with software development on large projects/initiatives. Experience in structuring and leading complex analysis across one or more lines of business.  Experience in working with large customers and/or prospect databases and sources. Three years’ experience with developing compelling stories and distinctive visualizations. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:  Data application and practices knowledge. Advanced skills with modern programming and scripting languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, Spark, UNIX Shell scripting, Perl, or Ruby). Strong problem solving, oral and written communication skills. Ability to influence, build relationships, negotiate and present to senior leaders.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values:  Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

ADA:  The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job.  Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental, paid time off plus nine paid holidays, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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Nationwide utilizes a geographic-specific salary structure. The range for this role in Colorado is$124,000.00 - $181,000.00

Nationwide pays based on a geographic-specific salary structure. The range for this role in Ithaca, New York is$124,000.00 - $238,000.00