Consultant, Software Engineer - AWD NF Tech Lead (Java, APIs, Oracle)

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

4d•$118,000 - $178,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Nationwide’s NF Integrated Digital Solutions (IDS) Imaging & Workflow organization is seeking a Consultant, Software Engineer to serve as the AWD-NF technical lead for the ChorusAWDVenture line. This is an opportunity to join a highly visible, business-critical technology space at an exciting point in its evolution. AWD-NF is a foundational workflow and document-processing platform used to support important Nationwide operations. The platform is moving forward as a modern, cloud-hosted solution running in Nationwide’s AWS environment, and the team is actively improving its reliability, performance, security, integrations, automation, and user experience. The person in this role will help shape what comes next while continuing to strengthen the platform that our business partners rely on every day. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will be close to the architecture, code, delivery, production support, and people who make the work successful. You will have the opportunity to influence technical direction, bring clarity to complex problems, and help teams deliver solutions with confidence.

Requirements

Java, Spring Boot, object-oriented design, and backend application development.
RESTful services, API design, OpenAPI, Apigee, service integration, and API troubleshooting.
SQL and Oracle databases, including query analysis, performance considerations, stored procedures, and data dependencies; experience with Snowflake and Power BI for data integration, reporting, and analytics.
Kafka and event-driven integration patterns.
Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript sufficient to understand and support modernized user experiences and end-to-end flows.
Automated testing and quality engineering practices, including JUnit, Mockito, Postman, Playwright, or similar tools.
CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or comparable platforms.
Linux environments, command-line tools, deployment automation, and environment troubleshooting.
Observability and operational support using tools such as Splunk, New Relic, and related monitoring capabilities.
Experience with Ansible and AWS CDK for infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, and deployment automation.
Secure engineering practices, authentication and authorization patterns, credential protection, and enterprise integration controls.
Demonstrated ability to support end-to-end delivery from early design through implementation, production readiness, and long-term support.
Create clarity when requirements, dependencies, or ownership are not yet clear.
Lead through influence and build alignment across development, quality, architecture, product, business, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
Adapt your communication to the audience, from detailed technical conversations with engineers to concise risk and decision discussions with business and executive partners.
Remain calm, curious, and solutions-oriented during incidents, delivery pressure, ambiguity, and change.
Build distributed ownership by making knowledge accessible through documentation, runbooks, examples, and active knowledge transfer.
Recognize opportunities to improve how the team works and help turn those opportunities into measurable improvements.
Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.
Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis.
Three years of experience in project management is preferred.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Snowflake and Power BI for data integration, reporting, and analytics.
Mentor and coach engineers, testers, and vendor partners through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and constructive feedback.
Help team members strengthen their skills in architecture, API and service testability, automation, CI/CD, production support, and engineering practices.
Set practical standards and reusable patterns without becoming a bottleneck or single point of failure.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical lead and trusted engineering partner for AWD-NF within the ChorusAWDVenture line.
Lead technical design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and implementation of scalable platform capabilities and integrations.
Establish technical direction across application, API, database, messaging, automation, infrastructure, and deployment concerns.
Help the team make sound decisions about architecture, technical trade-offs, sequencing, dependencies, and risk.
Provide hands-on support for production stability, incident response, root-cause analysis, performance improvement, and operational readiness.
Partner with Software Engineering Product Managers, Agile Leaders, architects, quality engineers, business stakeholders, vendors, and other technical leads to keep delivery moving.
Clarify ownership, surface dependencies early, and turn complex technical challenges into actionable plans for the team.
Contribute to development design, story refinement, estimates, code reviews, technical documentation, runbooks, and release readiness.
Promote an automation-first, quality-focused engineering culture across the software development lifecycle.
Use AI-enabled tools thoughtfully to accelerate analysis, solution design, documentation, testing, and delivery while maintaining engineering judgment and quality standards.
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.
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.