Associate Software Developer Jobs in Columbus, OH

If you're passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 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.
This role will support the Retirement Solutions Operational Data Store and related insight capabilities as a hands-on software engineer with a focus on data. This position will focus on building, enhancing and maintaining modern data engineering solutions that enable trusted, scalable and business-ready data for analytics, reporting and decision support.
The current Retirement Solutions technology direction centers on a Snowflake-based data platform. In this role, the associate will help engineer and support data pipelines, curated data assets and governed consumption patterns using modern Snowflake capabilities and related change data capture tooling.
Nationwide's Governmental and Institutional Retirement Solutions business is part of the broader Retirement Solutions organization and serves retirement plan markets through dedicated Government and Institutional channels. The business supports both plan participants and plan sponsors through specialized access and service experiences and offers retirement plan solutions that include governmental plan capabilities such as 457 plans, along with tools, forms and consultative support designed to help clients strengthen retirement readiness, improve participant engagement and deliver strong service outcomes.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and support data engineering solutions for the Retirement Solutions Operational Data Store and related insight capabilities.
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to modernize data movement and transformation.
• Use Snowflake, Snowpark and SQL-based transformation techniques to curate high-quality, business-ready data assets.
• Support orchestration and automation using Snowflake Tasks, Snowpipe and related platform capabilities.
• Create and maintain data models and semantic views that improve business consumption and usability.
• Enable governed data access patterns that support analytics, reporting and AI-enabled insight use cases.
• Apply data quality, security and control practices to ensure trusted and compliant data solutions.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate data and insight needs into resilient engineering solutions.

Technical Skills
Strong technical skills in:

• Snowflake data engineering
• Snowpark
• SQL-based transformation
• Data pipeline orchestration
• ETL modernization
• Data modeling
• Semantic views
• Governed data consumption
• Data quality and security controls
• AI-enabled analytics using Snowflake Intelligence
• Snowflake CoWork for governed AI-enabled access

Nice to have:

• Oracle CDC using OpenFlow
• Oracle XStream

It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, Ohio on a hybrid basis. The team come in for collaboration on Mondays and Tuesdays. However, on occasion, applications from internal candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered.
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
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. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you'll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and best practices.
• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
• Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
• Manages project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.

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, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree.
Experience: Two or more years of analysis and technology experience.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle moderately 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.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and Human Resources Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Office environment may vary based on team and/or location. 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
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
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.
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:
We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.
Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.
The national salary range for Sr Engineer, Software Engineer : $76,000.00-$143,000.00
The expected starting salary range for Sr Engineer, Software Engineer : $76,000.00 - $115,000.00