Specialist, Software Engineer

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.

Specialist, Software Engineer:

This position will be on Licensing and Appointment applications team in Digital Pre Sales and New Business organization within IDS BSA. This role will support Agent Information Management Systems (AIMS) application. The role will be on JavaBeans line and will also support Licensing modernization effort which involves implementing a new SaaS platform PMACS.

The resource will work on application development (analysis, design, code, debug, document, test) and with full competency, be able to modify application programs from detailed specifications on the Agent Information Management Systems (AIMS) application. The candidate may also handle day-to-day application support requests (reviews and completes ServiceNow / Jira requests), participate in on call rotation, partner with business for defect and enhancement prioritization and other application support activities. This position is competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of applications programming activities.

The successful candidate for this position will have following skills:

• Strong experience with programming in JAVA and API development

• Knowledge of Oracle database, event streaming development and Kafka platform

• Familiarity with Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, Informatica ETL process will be helpful

• Other required technical skills include: XML, GitHub, UAC scheduler, knowledge with batch processing

• Experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic and Splunk

• Familiarity with code migration and deployment including WebSphere Application Servers, Nexus, UCD deployment, CI/CD pipeline and usage of GitHub

• Exceptional trouble shooting skills and ability to research, analyze and provide solutions for complex technical issues

• Candidate should have strong communication skills, be able to work well with others and be able to multi-task well

• Ability to learn on the fly and comprehend how application code interacts with infrastructure and database layers and ability to consult with various application development teams

• Identify and drive continuous improvement and capability uplift across the team and department

• Strong team player with People Oriented skills

This role will be filled in a hybrid capacity, with in-office collaboration in our Columbus, OH office 2 days per week.

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

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!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards in an agile environment.

• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Uses DevSe