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Nationwide Insurance

Specialist, Analytic Engineer

Scottsdale, AZ

As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey!

This position supports the Excess & Surplus/Specialty organization

Compensation Grade: F4

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Job Description Summary

Do you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-based business outcomes? At Nationwide, our Analytic professionals are responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights and identifying business opportunities using scientific research methods, statistics, machine learning and data visualization techniques. They participate in all phases of the analytic lifecycle, from research design, data collection and data processing to model building, deployment and presentation of results.

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Our industry-leading workforce uses 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 know more about you!

As a Specialist, you may participate in the development of project scope, risk/control matrix, timelines and assignments. You'll actively participate in the delivery of analytic work that supports business objectives and priorities.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Synthesizes project work. Plans and manages execution of work, participates in planning and delivers on commitments. 

  • Develops and implements data management practices for structured and unstructured data sources. 

  • Reviews analytic work products and may provide subject matter feedback to project team.

  • Builds and maintains relationships. Serves as a trusted business advisor to clients, internal risk partners, and other business partners. Creates partnerships across the enterprise to ensure methodologies and assumptions used are aligned with corporate practices. 

  • Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.

  • Understands standards for implementation of analytic data asset builds into the Model Factory.

  • Is responsible for regulatory and security compliance of assets, as well as data integrity and quality, to ensure reliability and performance. 

  • Provides training, troubleshooting and guidance on data consumption.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to, Director, Analytic Engineering. This is an individual contributor role. 

Typical Skills and Experiences:


Education: Undergraduate studies required in computer science, mathematics, analytic, data science, and related degrees. Specialization in data and analytics preferred; SQL skills may be required

Experience: One to four years of demonstrated experience in role responsibilities. 

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven expertise (increasing with the level) is expected for query languages such as SQL, database architecture and data warehousing, reporting tools (e.g., Tableau), requirements development. Programming languages such as Python, R, SAS, machine learning experience, data modeling and mining. Experience in the financial services industry, especially in insurance, is desired. Enterprise data assets is desired. 

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 the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:


Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible) 

Working Conditions: Normal office environment

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): Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Job ID: d529aee1efbc4b558460985f674994494f7b8b6660761baad15555c15ed5e23f
Employment Type: Other