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Nationwide Insurance

Consultant, Product Architect

Remote

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!

The person selected for this role will:

  • Manage the product architecture for some of the business-critical Retirement Solutions assets and applications.

  • Support the modernization of the core assets through technologies such as APIs, microservices, cloud native services, and event streaming

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Deliver business value by partnering with Application Product Managers and project teams, ensuring solutions are delivered with efficiency, quality and speed

  • Enable expense reduction by delivering automated and cloud-enabled solutions leveraging emerging technology and DevOps

  • Craft moderate to sophisticated build patterns, accelerators, building codes standard and carrying out compliance with architecture standards.

  • Drive technical quality by conducting or participating in architecture, design and code reviews, capacity planning, modeling and testing.

  • Assist in mentoring teams involved in a product/application development when unfamiliar, new technologies or techniques are introduced.

  • The ideal candidate possesses the following skills and experiences:

    • Hands-on experience with integration architectures and technologies (Microservices/Spring Boot, Event Streaming/Kafka, Java, APIs/Apigee, API Auth Patterns)

    • Hands-on experience designing and/or developing modern, cloud-native applications with cloud platforms like AWS and container technologies

    • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex architecture in simple terms

    • Positive attitude and growth mentality

    • A proven innovation mindset and a good team player

    The ideal candidate would have most if not all of the following characteristics:

    • Experience in application & integration architecture

    • Ability to balance the need to adopt standards with boundary pushing to achieve new levels of delivery speed

    • Experience designing fully DevOps automated products

    • Strong consideration will be given to applicants who possess Retirement Solutions experience, both in terms of technology that supports the domain and business acumen

    Compensation Grade G4

    Job Description Summary

    If you’re passionate about delivering 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 Product Architect you will support a line or lines of business or infrastructure domain and are responsible for the technical quality, integrity and evolution of the application portfolio sustaining a product domain, a business function(s) within a Business Solution Area (BSA) or the technology portfolio.

    The Product Architect supports a line of business or infrastructure domain and is responsible for technical quality, integrity and evolution of the application portfolio sustaining a product domain, a business function(s) within a business solution area (BSA) or the technology portfolio.

    Job Description

    Key Responsibilities: 

    • Develop and maintain systems architecture for a product domain, business function or the technology portfolio. Ensuring that the product meets functional and non-functional requirements.

    • Key contributor on strategies, blueprints and roadmaps for a given product/application/technology area focused on technical directions like Cloud First. Ensure product/application roadmaps are aligned with solution and enterprise roadmaps with the correct guard rails.

    • Identifies technology risk, technical currency and technical debt related to applications when planning for new solutions, technology upgrades and maintenance of product/application platforms.

    • Crafts moderate to sophisticated build patterns, accelerators, building codes standard and carrying out compliance with architecture standards.

    • Drives technical quality by conducting or participating in architecture, design and code reviews, capacity planning, modeling and testing.

    • Runs the vitality of technical talent in area of responsibility and provides feedback, suggestions to other people leaders on technical talent.

    • Assists in mentoring lines involved in a product/application development when unfamiliar, new technologies or techniques are introduced.

    May perform other responsibilities as assigned. 

    Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director or AVP, Chief Architect.

    Typical Skills and Experiences: 


    Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field is preferred.

    License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications or designation are not required but encouraged. 

    Experience: Eight to ten years of experience in a Technology domain. Shown skill in multiple architectural domains and various technologies. Awareness of emerging technologies. Experience with cloud technologies is preferred.

    Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Good communication and facilitation skills. Ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies while considering various options and business needs. Aptitude to influence, build relationships, negotiate and set priorities needed. Strong executive presence. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

    Other criteria, including leadership or technical skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. 

    Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

    Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

    Job Conditions: 


    Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

    Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Some travel maybe required. 

    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. 

    Job ID: a15684222a68a54ba5232c006b052c491953a7930cef84961c634aaa9dc3bce3
    Employment Type: Other