Senior Data Governance Advisor - Data Enablement

Are you passionate about being part of a team that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their retirement? If so, then Nationwide Financial 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.

• This role is all about engagement, collaboration, and results.
• You will partner with existing team members, our IT and business counterparts, and the Data and AI/ML/Robotics Product Owners.
• As the embedded representative for data across our portfolio of projects, you’ll advocate for business counterparts, data stewards, policyholder needs, and the advanced analytics needs of Pet.
• This role demands a deep understanding of data as one of Pet’s most vital assets and ensures data is proactively engaged in projects—not an afterthought.
• You are the tactical extension of our data strategy, engaging across all phases from ideation through development, testing, and production.
• You’ll continually look for opportunities to make things easier, faster, and better in relation to the role data plays in our everyday work and for our policyholders.
• You don’t have to have a pet to be on the team—but if you do, we expect pictures.
• This is your opportunity to bring data to the forefront of our organization as the foundation of everything we do at Pet. 

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 enabled culture, we want to hear from you.

As a Data Governance Advisor, you’ll ensure the quality, reliability, security, efficiency, and accuracy of data through the data lifecycle to enable effective reporting and analytics for better and faster decision-making. You’ll ensure adherence to data governance policy, standards and processes including taxonomy, data quality, efficiencies, and usage. Successful candidates have a passion for improving integrity and usability of data assets, resolving data quality issues, creating data definitions, driving consistency in sourcing data and defining critical data elements and collaborating with influencing others to consistently implement data governance policies, process, and standards.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Acts as top-level technical expert in the implementation of the Enterprise Data Governance policy, vision, strategy, tactical plans and service offerings for their assigned Auditable Business Unit(s).

• Responsible for data improvement, accuracy, validity, reliability, timeliness, relevance, completeness, and compliance.

• 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.

• Oversees the development of standards to identify critical data issues and ensure data policy enforcement and compliance.

• Drives risk mitigation efforts by performing data risk assessments and developing recommendations to resolve the issues. 

• Furthers the enterprise or Auditable Business Unit(s) data governance communication and change plans.

• Drives the information management lifecycle within their assigned Auditable Business Unit(s).

• Provides top-level technical support and/or consultation on the Enterprise Data Governance applications.

• Executes complex metadata management initiatives, including technical data lineage, data quali