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Nationwide Insurance

Consultant, Software Engineer (Digital Offerings Tech Lead)

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!

This is an individual contributor tech lead developer role within the Emerging Partnerships Direct Business Solution Area that will play a key leadership and delivery role in planning, developing, and deploying Digital Products for Nationwide's partners.  The team is responsible for defining and building the APIs, Streams and Experiences that enable self-service, digital access to Nationwide's insurance and financial service products.  This is a new and exciting area within the business that will drive new growth and enable new and innovative solutions to be built for Nationwide Members and Nationwide business partners. 

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The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics:

- Ability to work in a fast paced team environment

- Strong communication, people interaction, and self-leadership skills

- Thought leadership with strong ability to influence and lead continuous improvement

- Experience developing software via Agile software development methodologies

- Proven ability to document and share knowledge effectively (knowledge management)

- Technology depth and experience with designing, building and supporting APIs and Event Streams

Technical skills:

- Full stack development experience

- Java / Springboot and Angular development

- Microservices / REST APIs

- Cloud Native applications in AWS or Azure

- Docker container architecture managed by Kubernetes

- CI/CD pipeline enablement

- Experience with Apigee is a plus

- Experience developing and managing content in a CMS such as Contentful is a plus

Compensation grade G4

Job Description Summary

If you’re all about delivering technology solutions to support a company providing outstanding care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology may be the place for you! Our industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative and inclusive culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

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:

  • 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. 

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: 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. 

Job ID: 43cba6622a59401cce7eb046d360b9e3fbc68949b283a942f96895d0f926c02a
Employment Type: Other