Investment Professional, Data Governance

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

3d•$100,000 - $168,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role connects across all Investment stakeholders, including Data Management and Reporting, Technology, Operations, Controllership, and Enterprise Data Governance. The associate will translate business needs into clear data requirements, strengthen ownership and controls, and help deliver practical improvements across investment systems and reporting processes. The role requires deep curiosity, strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to influence partners through expertise, preparation, and collaboration. The role reflects the Investments Data Governance model and its focus on reliable data, clear accountability, transparent issue management, and quality controls embedded throughout the data lifecycle.

Requirements

6-10 years of relevant experience with data management organization/standards or practices.
Experience engaging business leaders, data architects and external consultants to identify and fill gaps in data and analytics environment.
Proficient in data acquisition, data wrangling and/or data visualization techniques and tools (i.e., SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI, etc.), and cloud technologies – Azure and AWS (i.e., Redshift, S3, EC2, etc.).
Experience in statistical analysis, interpreting results in determining data quality and fit for purpose.
Data application and practices knowledge, with expertise using SQL to perform data analysis (experience in Snowflake and Databricks preferred)
Sound decision making and strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
Exhibits interpersonal skills and effective written and oral communication
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs
Demonstrated expertise in building relationships, facilitating meetings, influencing others, and setting priorities

Nice To Haves

Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Graduate studies in business, statistics, math, computer science or a related field are a plus.

Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders and data owners to define data requirements, business terms, ownership, quality expectations, and downstream impacts.
Support governance processes including data-change intake, decision tracking, data dictionary management, CDE review, and governance committee preparation.
Lead or facilitate data-quality issue identification, triage, root-cause analysis, remediation planning, and communication.
Support data-quality scorecards and measurement related to completeness, accuracy, timeliness, issue volume, source health, and resolution.
Coordinate with Technology and business partners on new and changing data elements, reference data, system enhancements, and reporting improvements.
Evaluate data and reporting impacts across a complex data ecosystem of platforms and business insight tools.
Support CDE, catalog, lineage, and metadata practices in partnership with Enterprise Data Governance.
Facilitate working sessions, document decisions, and help build shared business understanding through training and knowledge sharing.
Identifies, executes, and communicates data strategy opportunities, defining long-term goals and key performance indicators to further a data-driven culture in support of business priorities.
Consults and provides direction on acquisition, curation, and consumption of data for analytical and operational uses, producing data source documentation and assisting with development and maintenance of reference data and mastering rules to ensure a single version of the truth across all data consumers.
Collaborates on mapping the end-to-end flow of data and the business processes and/or technical interfaces which would be created or impacted and recommends solutions/adaptations.
Develops collaborative relationships with business, Technology, and vendor partners, communicating data impacts and promoting transparency around data issue identification and resolution.
Prompts data, reporting and analytic requirements from business requestors to generate solutions.
Participates in planning and execution of UAT, triage issues and works with development team on remediation approach to ensure data integrity.
Performs data management activities, including classifying information into logical categories, generating data lineage, developing data quality and transformation rules, conducting complex data profiling, implementing data monitoring techniques using standardized tools, reviewing daily exceptions, reloading data, and applying data overrides as necessary.
Uses moderate to complex visualization techniques and skills to present data in support of business needs.
Enforces data governance structure, standards, and procedures to ensure data is well-defined, consistent, accurate, accessible, and secure.
Governs all data access requests and has final right of refusal for accesses.
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of investment asset classes, and those data elements most critical to support business processes.
Integrates emerging data and analytic trends, competitive research, and industry best practices into Nationwide.

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