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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 security data foundation that powers modern Cyber Security Operations. In this role, you'll design and operate the pipelines, lakehouse data models, and telemetry engineering patterns that turn massive volumes of raw security data into trusted, usable intelligence for detections, analytics, and investigations. You'll work across cyber security, detection engineering, platform, and data teams to ensure the security data lake is scalable, observable, governed, and ready to support mission-critical operational decisions.

Job description

Designs, builds, and operates the security data engineering foundation that enables telemetry ingestion, normalization, enrichment, analytics, and detections across the Cyber Security Operations Center.

Owns secure and reliable data pipelines, lakehouse data models, telemetry quality controls, and the engineering patterns needed to support security analytics, detection content, investigations, and downstream operational workflows.

Partners closely with cyber security professionals, detection engineers, platform and operations engineers, and data consumers to ensure the security data lake is trustworthy, observable, scalable, governed, and production-ready.

Requirements

Security Operations experience preferred

Strong data engineering skills, with advanced Databricks and Spark experience and strong working ability in Python and SQL

Experience building and operating batch and streaming data pipelines for high-volume telemetry, logs, events, and security datasets

Strong knowledge of telemetry normalization (OCSF), enrichment, schema design, and data quality controls across security-relevant data sources

Experience designing and maintaining lakehouse or data lake architectures that support analytics, detections, investigations, and long-term retention needs

Familiarity with detection engineering requirements, including how curated data supports rules, analytics, triage, and investigation workflows

Experience integrating enterprise data sources, APIs, files, message streams, and cloud storage in a secure and maintainable way

Working knowledge of observability, cost management, performance tuning, and operational support for production data platforms

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

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Security Operations experience preferred

Expectations

Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines and lakehouse data products that support telemetry analysis, detections, and cyber security investigations

Define and implement ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and curation patterns for diverse security and platform telemetry sources

Design trustworthy data models and storage patterns in Databricks that balance performance, cost, lineage, retention, and analytical usability

Partner with detection engineers and analysts to ensure data products expose the fields, context, and quality needed for effective rules and analytics

Implement data quality monitoring, freshness checks, reconciliation controls, and operational telemetry for critical data flows

Optimize jobs, clusters, storage layout, and query performance for scale, reliability, and cost efficiency

Support secure access patterns, governance controls, and auditability requirements for sensitive security data

Troubleshoot pipeline defects, telemetry gaps, and downstream data issues quickly, and support production incident response when data engineering is involved

Continuously improve reusable ingestion frameworks, data standards, and engineering practices across the security data lake ecosystem

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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 08/21/2026. 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 Consultant, Cyber Operations Professional : $118,000.00-$222,000.00The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Cyber Operations Professional : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00