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

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nationwide’s Technology team is seeking a Consultant, Software Engineer to serve as the AWD-NF technical lead for the ChorusAWDVenture line. This role is within the NF Integrated Digital Solutions (IDS) Imaging & Workflow organization. AWD-NF is a foundational workflow and document-processing platform that is being modernized into a cloud-hosted solution running in Nationwide’s AWS environment. The team is focused on improving the platform’s reliability, performance, security, integrations, automation, and user experience. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with close involvement in architecture, code, delivery, production support, and team collaboration. The role offers opportunities to influence technical direction, clarify complex problems, and help teams deliver solutions with confidence. It is a chance to join a collaborative, forward-looking team modernizing a critical platform and solving challenging engineering problems, with visibility into decisions and direct connection to Nationwide’s automation and workflow strategy. The role combines meaningful ownership, challenging technical work, influence, mentorship opportunities, and a supportive team environment that values learning and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Ability to work across a modern enterprise technology ecosystem.
Experience with Java, Spring Boot, object-oriented design, and backend application development.
Experience with RESTful services, API design, OpenAPI, Apigee, service integration, and API troubleshooting.
Experience with SQL and Oracle databases, including query analysis, performance considerations, stored procedures, and data dependencies.
Experience with Kafka and event-driven integration patterns.
Sufficient experience with Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript to understand and support modernized user experiences and end-to-end flows.
Experience with automated testing and quality engineering practices, including JUnit, Mockito, Postman, Playwright, or similar tools.
Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, or comparable platforms.
Experience with Linux environments, command-line tools, deployment automation, and environment troubleshooting.
Experience with 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.
Experience with secure engineering practices, authentication and authorization patterns, credential protection, and enterprise integration controls.
Understanding of how to build maintainable, supportable solutions in a complex, regulated enterprise environment.
Comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, strategic direction and tactical problem-solving, and project delivery and production operations.
Demonstrated ability to support end-to-end delivery from early design through implementation, production readiness, and long-term support.
Ability to create clarity when requirements, dependencies, or ownership are not yet clear.
Ability to lead through influence and build alignment across development, quality, architecture, product, business, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
Ability to mentor and coach engineers, testers, and vendor partners through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and constructive feedback.
Ability to set practical standards and reusable patterns without becoming a bottleneck or single point of failure.
Ability to adapt communication to the audience, from detailed technical conversations with engineers to concise risk and decision discussions with business and executive partners.
Ability to remain calm, curious, and solutions-oriented during incidents, delivery pressure, ambiguity, and change.
Ability to build distributed ownership by making knowledge accessible through documentation, runbooks, examples, and active knowledge transfer.
Ability to recognize opportunities to improve how the team works and help turn those opportunities into measurable improvements.
Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Snowflake and Power BI for data integration, reporting, and analytics.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge.

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.
Apply secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, tools, and coding standards.
Provide strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.
Drive cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
Analyze, solution, develop, test, debug, document, and deploy software according to standards and optimal practices.
Champion the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling, and techniques.
Ensure continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice, and innovation.
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Perform other responsibilities as assigned.