Specialist, Data Platform Engineer (Databricks & Snowflake)

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.

Data Platform Engineer – Databricks & Snowflake

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Administration & Engineering

• Administer and manage Databricks and Snowflake environments, including user access, workspace configuration, cluster policies, and cost controls.

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data platform architecture.DBA like tasks.

• Monitor platform health, usage, and performance; proactively identify and resolve issues.

• Manage data storage, compute resources, and integrations with cloud services in AWS

Automation & DevOps

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for platform provisioning using tools like Terraform, or CloudFormation.

• Automate platform operations including user onboarding, job scheduling, resource scaling, and alerting.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data platform components and configurations.

• Build reusable scripts and tools for operational efficiency (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Enforce data security policies, access controls, and audit logging across Databricks and Snowflake.

• Collaborate with data governance teams to implement data cataloging, lineage, and classification tools.

• Ensure compliance with internal and external data regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2).

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!

The Technology Engineer delivers standard and custom supportable technology products based on Nationwide’s architectural standards, technology roadmaps, industry trends and business requirements. You’ll be focused on collaboration, data, systems, storage, middleware, network, security and contact center technology products. You’re also accountable for the operational aspects and management for the above products in accordance with the business requirements and defined service level agreements (SLAs).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Creates and implements standard builds/templates for all technology platforms.

• Drives requirements to meet current and future needs, tracks and reports capacity postures.

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

• Analyzes reports and delivery recommendations to remediate capacity issues.

• Implements capacity enhancements.

• Designs standard and custom technology solutions for business partner projects, including pre-production testing, performance tuning, handoffs and certification.

• Delivers technology/product optimization, migrations and management, including technology/product design, planning, power and environmental management.

• Collaborates with others to develop meaningful metrics that drive fact-based decisions on a given product/environment/solution.

• Conducts proactive system maintenance, disaster recovery planning, data backup and recovery as well as inventory, configuration and utility product management.

• Executes production engineering processes, incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, change management, release management and knowledge management.

• Provides production support for all technology platforms.

• Provides oversight for technical labs and development environments.

May perform other responsibil