Specialist, Data Solution Analyst

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 will work on a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

This position will report to the Manager, Data Leader for the CIA team. The CIA team stands for Claims, Internet of Things (IoT) and Advanced Analytics Data Engineering. IoT is an exciting growth area as the industry expects more auto policies to be priced based on usage such as miles driven and driving behavior.

The data solution analyst role is part of a high performing team that supports multiple data domains and is constantly evolving to meet the needs of the P&C data organization. Candidates should be comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing directives. Candidates should possess strong relationship building skills and be able to enable strong delivery through partnerships.

The data solution analyst responsibilities will include identifying and addressing data anomalies, inconsistencies, and gaps. Data solution analyst must be capable of understanding, updating, and creating detailed technical documentation, including data dictionaries, process flows, and system specifications. The data solution analyst communicates requirements and technical solutions to development teams and stakeholders. Additionally, the role requires experience in defining data quality rules and perform data profiling.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Self-starter, wholistic thinker, problem solver, effective storyteller and be a strong communicator in a diverse (technical and non-technical) stakeholder community.

• Property & Casualty Insurance business acumen on Telematics is a pre-requisite.  Property & Casualty Insurance business acumen on Claims is a plus.

• Experience working with business and technical users to capture functional and non-functional requirements, drive epic breakdown with team and facilitate team estimation, release planning, and ensure requirements traceability.

• Experience working with data models, source to target data mappings, data lineage processes, understanding of data governance practices and data definitions to identify attribute gaps in current operational and analytical solutions.

• Capability to elaborate and understand current and needed derived attributes with business rules, aggregate conditions, and KPIs for documentation.

• Experience in being part of an Agile line and all the practices from Initiation through Implementation.

• Good understanding of various Technologies, Data Lakehouse Platforms, Databases, Data APIs and programming languages is essential.

• Proficiency in requirements management is a pre-requisite. Experience in managing requirements for multiple efforts in parallel is needed.

• Ability to profile the data and run advanced queries using SQL in Databricks, Teradata, Postgres, Oracle to be able to gather requirements with a design thinking mindset.

Compensation Grade: F5

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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 Solution Analyst, you’ll translate functional data and analytic requirements into solutions for consumption and use by the respective business or technology request or leveraging a variety of approved technologies. The technologies include (but are not limited to) Paxata, Tableau, Micro strategy, Business Objects, R, or other reporting and visualization solutions being considered for operationalization. You’ll also have the opportunity to guide others to leverage self-service techniques for business reporting and analytics.

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