Columbus, Ohio, United States
Hybrid
Make an impact where technology, transformation, and business outcomes meet
Nationwide’s NF Integrated Digital Solutions (IDS) Imaging & Workflow organization is seeking a Consultant, Software Engineer to serve as the AWD-NF technical lead for the ChorusAWDVenture line. This is an opportunity to join a highly visible, business-critical technology space at an exciting point in its evolution.
AWD-NF is a foundational workflow and document-processing platform used to support important Nationwide operations. The platform is moving forward as a modern, cloud-hosted solution running in Nationwide’s AWS environment, and the team is actively improving its reliability, performance, security, integrations, automation, and user experience. The person in this role will help shape what comes next while continuing to strengthen the platform that our business partners rely on every day.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will be close to the architecture, code, delivery, production support, and people who make the work successful. You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction, bring clarity to complex problems, and help teams deliver solutions with confidence.
Why this is a great place to work
This is a chance to join a collaborative, forward-looking team that is modernizing a critical platform while solving challenging engineering problems. You will work with talented people across technology and the business, have visibility into decisions that matter, and see your work connect directly to Nationwide’s broader automation and workflow strategy.
The role offers the combination many experienced engineers are looking for: meaningful ownership, challenging technical work, room to influence direction, opportunities to mentor others, and the support of a team that values learning and continuous improvement. If you enjoy turning complexity into clarity, building solutions that last, and helping other engineers grow, this is an opportunity to make a visible and lasting impact at Nationwide.
What you will do
Technical skillset
The successful candidate will bring strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across a modern enterprise technology ecosystem. Experience with the following is especially valuable:
Beyond individual technologies, we are looking for someone who understands how to build maintainable, supportable solutions in a complex, regulated enterprise environment. You should be comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, between strategic direction and tactical problem-solving, and between project delivery and production operations.
Leadership and coaching
This role provides technical leadership without requiring formal people management. Your influence will come from your technical credibility, ownership mindset, communication, and ability to help others succeed.
You will be expected to:
In-flight efforts
The ChorusAWDVenture line has meaningful work already underway, including:
Future opportunities
The future roadmap creates significant room for technical leadership and innovation. In this role, you will help the organization:
What success looks like
In this role, success means the AWD-NF platform is more stable, more observable, easier to change, and better positioned for the future. It means engineers and partners have clearer technical direction, stronger reusable patterns, and greater confidence in what they are delivering. It means the team is growing its capability while delivering important modernization work with energy, discipline, and purpose.
This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Mondays & Tuesdays.
Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards.
Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.
Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices.
Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.
Experience: Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis. Three years of experience in project management is preferred.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
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 Human Resources Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.
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/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 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 pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.The national salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00-$222,000.00The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00Want to know if this job is worth applying to?
