Sr Consultant, Data Product Owner 3rd Party Data

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

 

This role will be filled in a hybrid capacity, with collaboration taking place in either our Columbus OH or Des Moines IA office 2 days per week.

Drive impact for the Property & Casualty (P&C) business by managing and governing external data assets across P&C platforms. Ensure reliable, high-quality third-party data for operational and analytical use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management: Identify stakeholders, champion customer experience, align data products with business outcomes, and ensure compliant use of third-party data.

• Data Governance & Strategy: Create frameworks for acquisition, integration, usage, and retirement of external data. Collaborate with legal, compliance, and IT to manage risks.

• Performance & Optimization: Define KPIs (freshness, completeness, usage), monitor effectiveness, and recommend improvements.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineers, analysts, and business leaders to integrate data into workflows and promote data literacy.

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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 Product Owner, you’ll be the data-related voice of the customer within a Technology development line and serve as the primary liaison between the business and Technology. You’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining the vision and value for the data product. You’ll continually re-prioritize backlog of defects and new development requests for the line(s) that support their data products, working with Technology leadership to influence staffing decisions against work priorities. Your role provides business-minded thought leadership throughout all phases of data development, including intake, work initiation and iteration planning and project estimations; they develop business requirements, manage communications between Technology and business, resolve blockers/questions/support needs, conduct/coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and approve releases. You’ll evaluate potential impacts to data products, coordinate with stakeholders and serve as steward for data governance, access rights/audits and defect resolution.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serves as steward for data product, providing end-to-end subject matter expertise, including related up- and downstream systems and processes.

• Acts as governance advocate, ensuring data metrics are understood and leveraged as intended by business users. Responsible for ongoing data accuracy, including defect reporting. prioritization and resolution.

• Governs all data access requests and has final right of refusal for accesses.

• 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.

• Defines, prioritizes and grooms the agile delivery team's product backlog to ensure continuous delivery, as well as develops, prioritizes and manages epics and user stories for the development team.

• Responsible for the creation and execution on the solution vision/roadmap. 

• Serves as the customer and business proxy to developers and agile teams for highly complex and technical data products and experiences, often impacting multiple audiences and lines of busi