Sr. Consultant, 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.

As a Sr Consultant, Data Solution Analyst leading the Data Strategy and Design function of Partner Activation you will be expected to be the expert on taking business outcomes and translating them to actionable data solution requirements and design.  Helping our IT and Business partners understand how Trusted Data, and quality data pipelines help them meet their business goals and objectives.  

A successful candidate should possess the following skills and/or experience:  

• Successful history of end-to-end data solution delivery, with first-hand experience scoping, sizing, and leading complex data initiatives, accountable for milestones, SLAs, and delivery outcomes. 

• Practitioner-level experience with data tools and technologies (e.g. data querying, data analysis & profiling, data wrangling, data integration, and/or data visualization) is highly desired.  Intermediate or higher skill developing custom SQL queries is required.   

• Successful history of coaching and uplifting both technical and soft skills of assigned team. Measures and manages the quality and timeliness of work of direct reports.  

• Effective cross-functional collaboration translates business objectives into technical designs, negotiates trade-offs, and manages matrixed dependencies with product, analytics, architecture, and platform teams. 

• Proven stakeholder communication skills to clearly convey status, risks, architecture decisions, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences; influences outcomes without formal authority. 

• Identification of innovation opportunities involving application of Data Ops and Generative AI capabilities for both business enablement and IT Ops use cases.  

• Critical thinking, excellent communication, detail-oriented, team-first attitude, creative and adaptive.  

• Insurance and Financial domain experience is a plus.  

• Experience working in an Agile environment using Lean, Kanban and/or Scrum practices.  

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.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for gathering reporting and analytic requirements from business