Specialist, Data Engineer

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s 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.

If you are passionate about the importance of data engineering and delivering clean, automated, integrated, and governed data required to fulfill our company’s most critical strategic objectives, then we have a great opportunity for you.  As a member of the Enterprise Data Office, the Data Engineer works closely with our Dev Line partners, Data Architects, business stakeholders, platform owners, and a host of other internal actors in the designing, building, and operationalizing of end-to-end data delivery solutions.

This position combines hands-on data engineering, along with understanding both the strategic goals and desired capabilities of the business units we support.  It involves the development of data pipelines and application architecture spanning the gamut of data ingestion, harmonization, and curation to enable business value realization across numerous consumer tiers.  As new solutions are developed as part of Build activities, this role is also critical in working with application teams and other key business and IT stakeholders to aid them in the production hand-off, adoption, and ongoing management of new technologies, processes, and best practices.

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

• Minimum of 3 years performing complex data pipeline development across numerous platforms (e.g. Informatica, Databricks, Snowflake, native Python).

• Minimum of 2 years development experience utilizing AWS cloud technologies (storage, container, compute, security, and automation).

• Fluency in Python, SQL, and Unix.  High proficiency with generating complex SQL queries is required.  Ability to understand and explain complex data integration and extraction / transformation / load processes.

• Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing AI tools to perform automated code development and testing tasks as part of typical daily work routine.

• Actively promotes reusable processes, engineering patterns, and work products.  Demonstrated success at applying standardized automation, secure data practices, and quality routines to data pipelines and information reporting solutions.

• Routine development and deployment of application monitoring and alerting capabilities as part of standard pipeline build activities.  Extensive experience utilizing DevOps and CI/CD tools as part of regular development activities.

• Demonstrated history of converting innovative ideas into scalable, production ready solutions.

• Knowledge of data governance tools, processes and policies, as well as influencing their adoption on projects driven by our IT and business partners.

• Proven communication skills illustrating ability to effectively interact with people at all levels of business and technology organizations.

• Demonstrated skill working directly with stakeholders, business partners, SMEs, systems peers, and cross-functional teams to collaborate and gain agreement on target solution designs.

• Experience providing skill coaching to junior resources, resources transitioning into newer skills and technologies, and mentees.

• Insurance and Financial domain experience is highly desired.

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

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week and current remote associates will also be considered.

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

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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 enable