Senior Consultant, Product Architect (Network Architect)

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week. The Network Product Architect role sits within Nationwide's Security & Infrastructure Architecture organization, encompassing the long-term architectural direction, modernization strategy, and security posture of the enterprise network. This is an attractive opportunity for someone who wants broad, enterprise-wide impact and is passionate about shaping how Nationwide connects, secures, and scales its network. The architect owns the technical vision and roadmap, driving Zero Trust and Micro-Segmentation maturity and designing how the network integrates with cloud-native platforms, AI/ML workloads, PCI enclaves, and international operations - partnering across network engineering, cloud platform, BISO, CSOC, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure the network remains secure, scalable, and aligned to our multi-cloud strategy. Day to day, this architect sets and evolves network reference architectures, reviews and approves significant solution designs impacting the network and security edge, leads deep-dive design sessions with engineering and application teams, and translates platform needs into actionable roadmaps and investment proposals. They also play a visible role in mentoring and knowledge transfer by coaching engineers through architectural decision-making, documenting standards, and helping grow network and security architecture talent at Nationwide. 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 Product Architect you’ll support a line(s) of business, staff function(s) or infrastructure domain(s) and is responsible for technical quality, integrity, and evolution of the application portfolio. You’ll also be responsible for identifying technical risk and sustaining a product domain, a business/staff function(s) or technology portfolio.

Requirements

More than ten years of experience in a Technology.
Shown strength in multiple architectural domains and various technologies.
Experience in implementing at least two end-to-end solutions.
Extensive knowledge of multiple architectural domains and various technologies.
Network security architecture (Zero Trust, SASE, firewalls) - designing and governing ingress/egress models including WAF, CDN, DDoS, Bot Protection (Akamai HEN), ZTNA/SSE (Zscaler), next-gen firewalls (Palo Alto), and micro-segmentation across on-prem and cloud
Cloud networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP - VPC/subnet design, Transit Gateway topologies, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute patterns, origin lockdown, and cloud-native firewall solutions
Network connectivity design (WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, P2P, IPsec, BYOR, Private Link) - authoring reusable patterns that standardize how Nationwide connects data centers, cloud, remote offices, and international sites
Architecture governance and road mapping - owning the Network APR, contributing to Technology Product Roadmaps, and participating in TOP intake and architecture reviews
Automation, Agentic and AIOps concepts - championing network automation, infrastructure-as-code, architecture-as-code, policy-as-code, and Agentic practices for network configuration

Nice To Haves

Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field is preferred.
Technology certifications or designation are not required but encouraged.
Experience with cloud technologies is preferred.
Superb communication and facilitation skills.
Ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies while considering various options and business needs.
Aptitude to influence, build relationships, negotiate and set priorities needed.
Strong executive presence.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the development and maintenance of systems architecture for a product domain, business function or the technology portfolio.
Ensuring that the product meets functional and non-functional requirements.
Top level specialist on strategies, blueprints and roadmaps for a given product/application/technology area focused on technical directions like Cloud First.
Ensuring product/application roadmaps are aligned with solution and enterprise roadmaps with the correct guard rails.
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.
Identifies technology risk, technical currency and technical debt related to applications when planning for new solutions, technology upgrades and maintenance of product/application platforms.
Crafts complex build patterns, accelerators, building codes standard and carrying out compliance with architecture standards.
Responsible for technical quality by conducting or participating in architecture, design and code reviews, capacity planning, modeling and testing.
Leads the vitality of technical talent in area of responsibility and provides feedback and suggestions to other people leaders on technical talent.
Mentors, coaches and trains lines involved in a product/application development when unfamiliar or new technologies or techniques are introduced.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

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