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Nationwide Insurance

Consultant, Technology Eng (IAM)

Columbus, OH

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!

IAM Engineer responsible for supporting Directory technologies. Examples, Active Directory, E-directory, Azure, Ping Directory, and others

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. Our 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!

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As a Consultant, Technology Engineer, you deliver standard and custom supportable technology products. The solutions you build are based on Nationwide’s architectural standards, technology roadmaps, industry trends and business requirements. You’ll focus on collaboration, data, systems, storage, middleware, network, security and contact center technology products. You’ll also be accountable for the operational aspects and management for the above products according to the business requirements and defined service level agreements (SLAs).

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Collaborates with Technology Architecture professionals to develop technology product roadmaps.

  • Designs and implements standard builds/templates for all technology platforms.

  • Drives product improvements through optimization, enhancements and the implementation of new features and functions.

  • Works continuously with other Technology Engineering teams and Technology Architecture to ensure the success of products.

  • Conducts “proof of concept” labs for enhancements, new solutions and competitive bake-offs.

  • Designs standard and custom technology solutions for business partner projects, including pre- production testing, performance tuning, handoffs and certification.

  • Conducts proactive and reactive monitoring to detect, predict and resolve abnormal conditions in the environment.

  • Collaborates with vendors to help drive design innovation in product enhancements and improvements.

  • Executes on production engineering processes, incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, change management, release management and knowledge management.

  • Provides complex production support for all technology platforms.

  • Provides oversight for technical labs and development environments.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to AVP, Director or Manager Technology Engineering Manager/Technology Product Manager.

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 (i.e., AWS, Azure, scripting and development languages, delivery methods, security).

Experience: Six years or more experience with the most complex integrated solutions with an ability to design and develop and modify new and existing solutions for specialized needs.  Experience with multiple technologies and within one or more domains. Experience with automation of deployment of solution configurations. Experience in training/guiding less experienced staff. Experience with solutions:  IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and package solutions. 

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Strong communication skills, knowledge of planning, management and execution of Accelerated Solutions Deliver framework, Information Security acumen. Influencing, negotiating and priority setting needed. 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 Vice President 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. 

Client-provided location(s): Columbus Metropolitan Area, OH, USA
Job ID: 5ec2efd1fbcdc69105bef074cc02e5a0261d25e13c0ac375bc5679180f32aa99
Employment Type: Other