Manager, Data Leader

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.

If you are passionate about the importance of data in meeting our Enterprise business objectives and in driving the adoption of newer technologies and data capabilities, then we have a great opportunity for you.  As a member of the Enterprise Data Office, the Data Leader partners with our Technology and Business teams to successfully implement key data initiatives across Nationwide.  In addition to supporting data pipeline development for structured data consumed by multiple downstream customers, the Data Leader is also responsible for creating and standing up data pipelines supporting use of unstructured data and machine learning models.  In this role, you will also provision and procure internal and external data engineers with needed skills to deliver on our partners’ complex data initiatives.  And in the spirit of ensuring we have a future-ready workforce, the Data Leader continuously executes plans to upskill our resource pool on niche data skills and evolving technologies. 

 

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

• Successful history of project delivery accomplishments, with first-hand experience in scoping, estimating, and leading data efforts. 

• Practitioner-level experience with one or more data tools and technologies (e.g. data querying, data analysis & profiling, data wrangling, data integration, and/or data visualization) is required.  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. 

• Experience optimizing costs and managing use of external vendor resources in alignment with Proc