Specialist, Data Product Owner Claims

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

***This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.  Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.***

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference for our P&C business and possibly the enterprise?  Is a challenging position leveraging Intelligent Data & Analytics Capabilities what you are looking for?  Then this position may be for you. The Data Product Owner (Claims) is primarily responsible for executing the data product strategy for the domain, defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable data solutions that meet stakeholder needs over time.

 

Key Skills

• Data analysis and query building

• Querying data

• Problem solving

• Design thinking

• Communication

• Claims administration experience

• Tools: SQL, Data Modeling techniques

 

Vision and Roadmap

• Supports and delivers the portfolio vision for the domain.

• Collaborates with Data Product Manager for the Domain, Data Management, IT, and Business Leadership to develop the roadmap of feature delivery within the domain.

• Collaborates with Solution Architects and Domain Data Governance to ensure the relevant standards and quality requirements are met within the domain.

 

Portfolio Management

• Coordinates with the Business Consulting Leader and IT Application Owner on planning activities within the domain (i.e. Big Room Planning).

• Supports the flow of work to the agile teams, working with the Scrum Masters and Data Product Owners within the domain to ensure the work is well defined, visualized, sized appropriately and that there is a continuous flow of work to the teams (i.e. Scope Mapping).

• Guides the work through incremental deliveries across multiple agile teams.

• Collaborates with Solution Architects to understand technology decisions that will enable the work being executed within the domain to ensure alignment of the sequencing of features.

 

Stakeholder Management

• Supports the customer experience (primary responsibility of the data product owner) to ensure continuous improvement of the domain related to its ability to support desired business outcomes and achieve business value.

• Evaluate tactical solutions proposed within the domain against strategic objectives as presented in the vision and roadmap. Tactical solutions should be balanced to maximize business value and minimize technical debt.

 

Previous experience using Jira (or similar tool) and SAFe certification are highly desired.

 

Compensation Grade: F5

This role will be filled in a hybrid capacity, with collaboration taking place in one of our office locations in Columbus, OH, Scottsdale, AZ, or Des Moines, IA.

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