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If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s 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.

Make an impact where technology, transformation, and business outcomes meet Nationwide’s NF Integrated Digital Solutions (IDS) Imaging & Workflow organization is seeking a Consultant, Software Engineer to serve as the AWD‑NF technical lead for the ChorusAWDVenture line. This is an opportunity to join a highly visible, business‑critical technology space at an exciting point in its evolution. AWD‑NF is a foundational workflow and document‑processing platform used to support important Nationwide operations. The platform is moving forward as a modern, cloud‑hosted solution running in Nationwide’s AWS environment, and the team is actively improving its reliability, performance, security, integrations, automation, and user experience. The person in this role will help shape what comes next while continuing to strengthen the platform that our business partners rely on every day. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will be close to the architecture, code, delivery, production support, and people who make the work successful. You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction, bring clarity to complex problems, and help teams deliver solutions with confidence.

Why this is a great place to work

This is a chance to join a collaborative, forward‑looking team that is modernising a critical platform while solving challenging engineering problems. You will work with talented people across technology and the business, have visibility into decisions that matter, and see your work connect directly to Nationwide’s broader automation and workflow strategy. The role offers the combination many experienced engineers are looking for: meaningful ownership, challenging technical work, room to influence direction, opportunities to mentor others, and the support of a team that values learning and continuous improvement. If you enjoy turning complexity into clarity, building solutions that last, and helping other engineers grow, this is an opportunity to make a visible and lasting impact at Nationwide.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical lead and trusted engineering partner for AWD‑NF within the ChorusAWDVenture line.
• Lead technical design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and implementation of scalable platform capabilities and integrations.
• Establish technical direction across application, API, database, messaging, automation, infrastructure, and deployment concerns.
• Help the team make sound decisions about architecture, technical trade‑offs, sequencing, dependencies, and risk.
• Provide hands‑on support for production stability, incident response, root‑cause analysis, performance improvement, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Software Engineering Product Managers, Agile Leaders, architects, quality engineers, business stakeholders, vendors, and other technical leads to keep delivery moving.
• Clarify ownership, surface dependencies early, and turn complex technical challenges into actionable plans for the team.
• Contribute to development design, story refinement, estimates, code reviews, technical documentation, runbooks, and release readiness.
• Promote an automation‑first, quality‑focused engineering culture across the software development lifecycle.
• Use AI‑enabled tools thoughtfully to accelerate analysis, solution design, documentation, testing, and delivery while maintaining engineering judgment and quality standards.

Technical skillset

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across a modern enterprise technology ecosystem.
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, object‑oriented design, and backend application development.
• RESTful services, API design, OpenAPI, Apigee, service integration, and API troubleshooting.
• SQL and Oracle databases, including query analysis, performance considerations, stored procedures, and data dependencies; experience with Snowflake and PowerBI for data integration, reporting, and analytics.
• Kafka and event‑driven integration patterns.
• Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript sufficient to understand and support modernized user experiences and end‑to‑end flows.
• Automated testing and quality engineering practices, including JUnit, Mockito, Postman, Playwright, or similar tools.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or comparable platforms.
• Linux environments, command‑line tools, deployment automation, and environment troubleshooting.
• Observability and operational support using tools such as Splunk, NewRelic, and related monitoring capabilities.
• Experience with Ansible and AWSCDK for infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, and deployment automation.
• Secure engineering practices, authentication and authorization patterns, credential protection, and enterprise integration controls.

Leadership and coaching

• Demonstrated ability to support end‑to‑end delivery from early design through implementation, production readiness, and long‑term support.
• Create clarity when requirements, dependencies, or ownership are not yet clear.
• Lead through influence and build alignment across development, quality, architecture, product, business, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
• Mentor and coach engineers, testers, and vendor partners through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge‑sharing sessions, and constructive feedback.
• Help team members strengthen their skills in architecture, API and service testability, automation, CI/CD, production support, and engineering practices.
• Set practical standards and reusable patterns without becoming a bottleneck or single point of failure.
• Adapt your communication to the audience, from detailed technical conversations with engineers to concise risk and decision discussions with business and executive partners.
• Remain calm, curious, and solutions‑oriented during incidents, delivery pressure, ambiguity, and change.
• Build distributed ownership by making knowledge accessible through documentation, runbooks, examples, and active knowledge transfer.
• Recognize opportunities to improve how the team works and help turn those opportunities into measurable improvements.

In‑flight efforts

• Continuing the evolution of AWD‑NF on the supported SS&C Chorus platform hosted in AWS.
• Supporting Licensing Modernization and LCS integration efforts with reliable, scalable workflow capabilities.
• Advancing Intelligent Workflow initiatives and enabling broader workflow, case‑management, document, and work‑item processing capabilities.
• Improving search, reporting, task‑center, email‑queue, and high‑volume work‑type experiences.
• Expanding API and integration capabilities across services and partner platforms, including Kafka and Apigee‑enabled patterns.
• Strengthening regression automation, Playwright coverage, release validation, and automated quality gates.
• Addressing technical debt across application code, database performance, platform configuration, infrastructure, deployment processes, monitoring, and documentation.
• Improving production stability, observability, performance baselining, incident prevention, and operational readiness.
• Continuing platform, security, browser, infrastructure, and vendor‑supported version improvements.
• Continue advancing AI‑DLC adoption across planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations by applying approved AI tools and responsible practices to improve delivery capacity, quality, security, and cycle time.

Future opportunities

• Shape the next phases of AWD‑NF modernization and future Chorus upgrades.
• Establish reusable platform patterns that can support additional Intelligent Workflow initiatives and multiple Nationwide business lines.
• Continue the phased modernization and migration of legacy workflow capabilities into a more consistent, scalable platform experience.
• Increase automation, reduce manual regression effort, and improve release speed and confidence.
• Advance performance engineering, observability, resiliency, and proactive operational support.
• Simplify deployment and environment management through scripting, automation, and repeatable infrastructure practices.
• Improve API governance, integration quality, auditability, reporting, and security across the platform.
• Use AI and emerging engineering practices to accelerate delivery, improve analysis, and reduce technical debt responsibly.
• Grow technical capability across the team by creating standards, coaching others, and building a stronger internal knowledge base.

What success looks like

In this role, success means the AWD‑NF platform is more stable, more observable, easier to change, and better positioned for the future. It means engineers and partners have clearer technical direction, stronger reusable patterns, and greater confidence in what they are delivering. It means the team is growing its capability while delivering important modernization work with energy, discipline, and purpose.

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Mondays & Tuesdays.

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. As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost‑effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom‑built applications.

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.
• Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards.
• Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.
• Drives cross‑collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices.
• Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
• Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences

• Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.
• Experience: Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis.
• Three years of experience in project management is preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills

• Hands‑on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems.
• Ability to thrive in a team environment.
• Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
• Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Values

Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions

• Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt).
• Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Associates may have on‑call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.
• ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision
• life insurance
• short and long term disability coverage
• paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro‑rated quarterly based on hire date
• nine paid holidays
• 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
• 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• company‑paid pension plan
• business casual attire
• and more.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

The national salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00-$222,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00

At Nationwide, we find purpose in protecting people, businesses and futures with extraordinary care – and we’ve been doing that since 1926. Our financial strength and caring culture extend beyond our associates into the communities we serve. You really can feel the difference at Nationwide, which is why we continue to be named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For.