Join the Finance & Investments Technology BSA, a team focused on delivering innovative technology solutions that support Nationwide's finance and investment operations. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide engineering standards, build reusable capabilities leveraged across multiple teams, and work with modern cloud and data technologies while partnering with architecture, security, governance, and product leaders.

Required Skills

• Advanced Python and ETL framework design — Strong production experience with Python, modular architecture, reusable components, packaging, testing, error handling, performance optimization, and maintainable pipeline design.

• API and SDK integration — Expertise integrating REST APIs, third-party SDKs, databases, files, and cloud services using secure authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retries, schema validation, and resilient error handling.

• Data engineering and quality — Strong SQL, data modeling, schema mapping, incremental and bulk loading, data validation, reconciliation, deduplication, data contracts, and schema evolution.

• Cloud-native delivery and Nationwide Golden Path alignment — Experience with containers, CI/CD, GitHub, automated testing, observability, secure configuration, and platforms such as AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, or Harmonia.

• Technical leadership and sustainable development — Ability to lead design decisions, mentor engineers, document standards, and use GitHub Copilot with VS Code responsibly to improve productivity while maintaining security, quality, and long-term maintainability. A recognized Python certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the ETL framework by defining reusable extraction, transformation, validation, loading, configuration, logging, retry, checkpointing, audit, and restartability patterns.

• Build and support data integrations with third-party APIs, SDKs, databases, files, SaaS platforms, and cloud services.

• Implement reliable data transformations and loads including normalization, enrichment, deduplication, business-rule processing, reconciliation, delta processing, upserts, and bulk loading.

• Drive production readiness through automated unit and integration testing, CI/CD, containerized execution, data quality controls, monitoring, alerting, SLA tracking, and secure secrets management.

• Lead and enable the engineering team through architecture and code reviews, mentoring, technical documentation, stakeholder collaboration, and effective use of GitHub Copilot with VS Code.

Work Arrangement: This role follows a hybrid schedule and requires in-office presence in our Columbus OH office location two days per week. Candidates must be based within a commutable distance to Columbus, Ohio.

Work Authorization: This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT Extension program.

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Job Description Summary

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. 

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.