Consultant, Product Architect - Nationwide Financial

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

Understanding of architectural design and application delivery in technologies and methodologies that include, but are not limited to: cloud, web, APIs/microservices, automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment
Assessment of the viability and feasibility of 3rd party solutions to meet business goals.
Advise and influence project sponsors and teams on the technical directions chosen
Collaboration with other Architects, Tech Leads, and Developers to provide technical design guidance that will align with the strategy and applicable technical standards
Strong ability to elicit business needs and identify the best way to address them proactively
Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and communicate technical challenges to non-technical personnel in a clear and concise manner
Leverages sound judgment and pragmatic approaches to designing scalable solutions with complex business needs
Eight to ten years of experience in a Technology domain.
Shown skill in multiple architectural domains and various technologies.
Awareness of emerging technologies.
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.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience with one or more of the following technologies and standards: Angular, AWS, REST APIs, multiple database platforms, Cobol, Mainframe, and/or full stack Java development
Experience with cloud technologies is preferred.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

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.
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
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.
Serve as a mentor for technical personnel engaged in the delivery of the solution.
In partnership with the Tech Leads help drive the adoption of AI practices across the development teams.

Benefits

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