Consultant, Delivery 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.

This is a hybrid role where you are required to be in the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week.

As a Delivery Leader on the Annuity Technology team, you will be responsible for leading a team of technology professionals in the development and implementation of technology solutions that support the annuity business. You will also be responsible for managing a value stream as part of the Annuity Modernization effort.

The ideal candidate will have experience in working with technology teams, developing and implementing technology solutions, and working with business stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements. You should have a strong understanding of API, microservices, and streaming technologies to help drive innovation and efficiency in the development process. In addition, you should also have knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines to ensure that the development process is at the right level of automation, adheres to security requirements, and ensures the right levels of monitoring and observability. You should also have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and be able to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. If you are passionate about technology and want to make a difference in the Annuity business, we encourage you to apply.

Compensation Grade: G5

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Job Description Summary

If you’re passionate about delivering technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Our 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 Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for delivering value and outcomes. Delivery leaders are expected to have an end-to-end vantage point on delivery, manage dependencies, remove blockers, engage partners, manage financials, maximize vendor relationships, and enable an iterative delivery of value. You will need to keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools. Delivery leaders should also understand relevant Financial and Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Drives the End to End delivery of expected business outcomes, realization of benefits as outlined in the business case, drives incremental value, drives incremental planning, and drives dependency scope definition.

• Responsible for the communication, critical issues, visibility, change management guidance to deliver business outcomes.

• Key contributor in the facilitation of contract negotiations, statement of work development and vendor oversight toward expected goals.

• Drives the prioritization of deliverables, handles moderate to complex issues/risks, governs dependencies.

• Is responsible for the delivery of status/health reports to drive value delivery tracking (ex: KPIs), optimizes the flow of value and ensures demand/capacity is handled.

• Works with medium to large project/product financials.

• Serves as a professional to others around delivering business outcomes, benefit realization, agile delivery, and Lean.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Delivery Leader or Business Solution Area Executive.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate studies (bachelor’s degree preferred) in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred. 

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifi