Director, IT Architecture (Data Engineering)

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.

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following key skills and expertise:
• A strong background in data engineering
• Previous architecture experience designing integration solutions (ETL, file, API, event streams)
• Experience building solutions with our data integration stack: Informatica, Talend, Python, and Perl
• Experience building APIs and event streams
• Working knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes
• Prior experience with Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, etc.
• A strong ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• A proven  track record of strong leadership and collaboration across teams
• Analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and a passion for emerging technologies
• Experience building and executing data strategy and data governance initiatives
• GPU development desirable but not required

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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 Solution Architect Leader you will be responsible for the technical quality, integrity and evolution of the application portfolio supporting a product domain, a business solution area or the technology portfolio supporting a line of business or infrastructure domain.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

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

• Responsible for the management of associates including but not limited to performance management, salary planning, training, development, workforce planning, hiring, and disciplinary actions; and attracts, hires, engages and develops the team through impactful recruitment, coaching and feedback.

• Leads the development and maintenance of technology strategies, blueprints and application roadmaps for a product domain, a business solution area or business/technology roadmaps for a given infrastructure domain.

• Identifies technical risk, currency and depth of product/applications supporting a business solution area or leads the technologies supporting a given infrastructure domain.

• Oversees the delivery of programs and projects driven by the solution area, product domain or infrastructure domain.

• Implements reusable technology solutions that uses shared assets.

• Harvests intellectual capital that contributes to increased delivery capabilities.

• Leads technical quality through architecture and design reviews.

• Top specialist in the generation of new solutions and designs in support of the needs of the product domain, business area or infrastructure domain.

• Assists business solution area leadership team with estimating costs and technical resource planning for new solutions, technology upgrades and maintenance of product/application platforms.

• Establishes building codes and guardrails for the business solution area and carries out compliance with technology and architecture standards.

• Active profession participant through communities of practice, industry involvement and/or standards organizations.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Technology AVP or above; responsible for 4-8 directs and in-directs. 

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate studies i