Investment Professional, Data Governance

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

6d•$100,000 - $168,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Investment Professional, Data Governance serves as a liaison between Investment business stakeholders and Technology, helping translate business needs into data requirements and deliver improvements to investment systems, data, and reporting. The role works across Data Management and Reporting, Technology, Operations, Controllership, and Enterprise Data Governance. It supports reliable data, clear accountability, transparent issue management, and quality controls throughout the data lifecycle. The associate helps develop and maintain the vision for the data ecosystem and advances data and analytic strategies in support of business priorities. Responsibilities span data intake, requirements gathering, planning, implementation, testing, release approval, governance, access oversight, and defect resolution. The role evaluates data impacts across platforms and business insight tools, supports data-quality measurement and remediation, and promotes shared understanding through collaboration, documentation, and training. The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of One Nationwide Plaza in Columbus, Ohio. The work schedule is three days in the office and two days remote. The role is exempt and not eligible for overtime. It does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization, and Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

Requirements

Six to ten years of relevant experience with data management organizations, standards, or practices.
Experience engaging business leaders, data architects, and external consultants to identify and fill gaps in data and analytics environments.
Proficiency in data acquisition, data wrangling, and/or data visualization techniques and tools, such as SQL, R, Python, Tableau, or Power BI.
Experience with cloud technologies such as Azure and AWS, including technologies such as Redshift, S3, and EC2.
Experience in statistical analysis and interpreting results to determine data quality and fitness for purpose.
Knowledge of data applications and practices, including expertise using SQL for data analysis.
Sound decision-making, strong analytical skills, and high attention to detail and accuracy.
Effective interpersonal skills and written and oral communication skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to adapt effectively to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships, facilitate meetings, influence others, and set priorities.
Regularly and consistently demonstrate Nationwide Values.

Nice To Haves

Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, business, statistics, math, a related field, or comparable experience and education are strongly preferred.
Graduate studies in business, statistics, math, computer science, or a related field are a plus.
Certifications are encouraged but not required.
Experience with Snowflake and Databricks is preferred.
Insurance or financial services industry knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

Identify, execute, and communicate data strategy opportunities, defining long-term goals and key performance indicators aligned with business priorities.
Consult on acquisition, curation, and consumption of data for analytical and operational uses; document data sources and support reference data and mastering rules.
Map end-to-end data flows and affected business processes or technical interfaces, and recommend solutions or adaptations.
Build collaborative relationships with business, Technology, and vendor partners; communicate data impacts and promote transparency in identifying and resolving data issues.
Elicit data, reporting, and analytic requirements from business requestors and translate them into solutions.
Participate in planning and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), triage issues, and work with development teams on remediation to ensure data integrity.
Perform data management activities, including classification, lineage generation, data-quality and transformation rules, complex data profiling, monitoring, exception review, data reloads, and overrides as needed.
Use visualization techniques to present data in support of business needs.
Enforce data governance structures, standards, and procedures so data is well-defined, consistent, accurate, accessible, and secure.
Govern data access requests and exercise final right of refusal for access.
Understand investment asset classes and the data elements most critical to business processes.
Incorporate emerging data and analytics trends, competitive research, and industry best practices into Nationwide.
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 measurements for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, issue volume, source health, and resolution.
Coordinate with Technology and business partners on new or changing data elements, reference data, system enhancements, and reporting improvements.
Evaluate data and reporting impacts across a complex ecosystem of platforms and business insight tools.
Support critical data element (CDE), catalog, lineage, and metadata practices with Enterprise Data Governance.
Facilitate working sessions, document decisions, and build shared business understanding through training and knowledge sharing.
Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Paid time off: newly hired associates receive a minimum of 18 days per full calendar year, prorated quarterly based on hire date
Nine paid holidays
Eight hours of Lifetime paid time off
Eight hours of Unity Day paid time off
401(k) with company match
Company-paid pension plan
Business casual attire