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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 work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio, Des Moines, Iowa, or Scottsdale, Arizona office 2 days (Mondays & Wednesdays) per week. Remote internal associates may also be considered.

The Cyber Security Operations Center's Innovation and Integration (CSOC-INI) team transforms emerging ideas into secure, production-ready capabilities that advance cyber defense. Across agentic solutions, modern application engineering, platform foundations, and security data engineering, we translate complex operational needs into scalable, observable outcomes.

This is a high-impact opportunity to build the modern applications that shape how Cyber Security Operations gets work done. In this role, you'll design and deliver production-ready user experiences and supporting services that connect secure frontend workflows with enterprise APIs, backend services, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. You'll work across cyber security, platform, architecture, and engineering teams to create scalable, maintainable, and observable applications that improve usability, accelerate operations, and help define the next generation of digital experiences in the enterprise.

Job description

Designs, builds, and operates modern user-facing applications and supporting services that enable secure, scalable, and maintainable digital experiences for Cyber Security Operations and adjacent enterprise workflows.

Owns frontend implementation, backend service integration, application workflow design, and the engineering patterns needed to deliver production-ready experiences across Angular, Java/Spring Boot, Python, and approved Nationwide AWS golden path technologies.

Partners closely with cyber security professionals, platform and operations engineers, solution architects, and data or AI engineering teams to ensure applications are usable, secure, observable, well governed, and aligned to enterprise delivery standards.

Requirements

Strong full stack engineering skills with deep experience in Angular for frontend development and strong working ability in Java, Spring Boot, and Python

Experience building and maintaining production web applications and APIs using enterprise development standards and reusable platform patterns

Strong knowledge of frontend architecture, component design, state management, API integration, and secure application development practices

Experience building backend services and integration layers that support UI workflows, orchestration, data access, and enterprise system connectivity

Familiarity with AI-assisted software development practices, including effective use of coding assistants, prompt-guided development, code review acceleration, and test generation

Preference for experience integrating applications with agentic solutions, LLM-backed services, retrieval components, or workflow automation capabilities

Experience working within AWS-aligned enterprise delivery patterns, golden path templates, and approved CI/CD, deployment, and operational controls

Working knowledge of observability, release practices, production support, and operational readiness for user-facing applications and services

Ability to collaborate with architecture, security, platform, and Cyber Security Operations stakeholders

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Security Operations experience preferred

Expectations

Build and maintain production-grade frontend applications and supporting services using Angular, Java/Spring Boot, and Python where appropriate for the use case

Design intuitive UI workflows that connect reliably to APIs, enterprise systems, and downstream service integrations

Implement reusable frontend patterns, shared components, and application structures that align to Nationwide golden path technology and engineering standards

Build and maintain backend services that support UI data needs, orchestration logic, integration requirements, and secure access to approved enterprise capabilities

Use AI-assisted development techniques responsibly to improve engineering throughput, code quality, documentation, test coverage, and delivery speed

Partner with AI, platform, and security teams to integrate applications with agentic workflows, LLM-backed capabilities, and human-in-the-loop experiences when appropriate

Instrument applications and services with the right logs, metrics, traces, and health telemetry to support monitoring and production troubleshooting

Support secure authentication, authorization, secrets handling, and policy-aligned delivery practices across the application lifecycle

Troubleshoot application defects, integration issues, and production incidents quickly, and continuously improve engineering quality, maintainability, and developer experience over time

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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 Cyber Operations professional, you'll be on the front line, protecting Nationwide's members and data! You will be immersed with incident response, cyber strategy and guidance, defense optimization and scanning and exploitation. We'll count on you to provide enterprise services in forensic investigation, attack and penetration, vulnerability scanning and response, cyber defense, security intelligence, security operations and infrastructure risk management.

Job Description

We currently anticipate accepting applications until 09/04/2026. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.

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.

This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.Smoke-Free Iowa Statement: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed areas on or around company premises as well as company issued vehicles. The company offers designated smoking areas in which smoking is permitted at each individual location. The Act prohibits retaliation for reporting complaints or violations. For more information on the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, individuals may contact the Smokefree Air Act Helpline at 888-944-2247.
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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 Specialist, Cybersecurity : $95,500.00-$177,500.00The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Cybersecurity : $95,500.00 - $143,500.00