Consultant, Software Engineer (Retirement Solutions)
About The Position
If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. If you are the kind of engineer who wants to own meaningful platforms, deliver outcomes that matter, and help make the people around you stronger, this role offers the chance to do exactly that. You will join a team responsible for critical Retirement Solutions capabilities and help keep our platforms healthy, current, secure, and ready to evolve into a strategic advantage. In this role, success is centered on three areas that matter deeply on our team: own the platform, deliver for our customers, and grow our people. 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. As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.
Requirements
- A strong AI mindset and a proven track record of using AI tools to improve productivity, accelerate delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and simplify day to day work.
- Hands on technical leadership experience and the ability to influence direction without formal people leadership authority.
- Deep hands-on experience in at least one modern programming language or framework, such as Java or Angular, with the ability to apply that expertise to complex engineering challenges.
- Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle and modern delivery practices.
- A track record of solving sophisticated business and technology problems in a collaborative team environment.
- Experience with enterprise integrations, operationally critical applications, cloud enabled components, or modernization work that balances new capabilities with support for existing platforms.
- A genuine interest in mentoring others, sharing knowledge, and helping raise the technical capability of the team over time.
- A positive, collaborative attitude and the ability to translate technical concepts into clear, easy to understand language.
- Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Three years of experience in project management is preferred.
- Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, enhancement, and support of software solutions that enable Retirement Solutions business outcomes.
- Apply secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle so the solutions you build are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
- Contribute to both modernization work and ongoing operational support, including release activity, integrations, batch or event driven processing, and production stability work.
- Partner with product, architecture, engineering, and support teams to move work forward across multiple teams and priorities.
- Analyze requirements, develop solutions, test and debug applications, document changes, and support deployment using sound engineering practices.
- Champion DevSecOps practices, tooling, and continuous improvement to help the team deliver with greater speed, quality, and resiliency.
- Mentor and guide other engineers through design reviews, coding standards, problem solving, and day to day technical leadership.
- Share knowledge, encourage strong engineering habits, and help raise the technical capability of the team over time.
- Lead through influence, collaboration, and a willingness to make others around you stronger.
- 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.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
