Consultant, Data Solution Engineer

If you're passionate about being part of a diverse organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to deliver innovative business solutions with excellence, then Nationwide's Legal 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.

The Consultant, Data Solution Analyst role is a hands-on builder and problem-solver supporting the Office of the Chief Legal Officer (OCLO). This position turns OCLO’s data, reporting, and workflow needs into practical solutions that help attorneys, paralegals, and operations partners work more efficiently and make better decisions. The role focuses on how OCLO applies approved data, visualization, and automation tools to its unique legal and risk use cases.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical delivery with a consultative mindset and is experienced in partnering with business stakeholders to shape data and automation strategy and translate it into practical, sustainable solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Consult with OCLO business partners to understand their data, reporting, and workflow needs, translating questions and ideas into actionable solution requirements.
• Design, build, and iterate on reporting, visualization, and automation solutions using approved enterprise technologies, ensuring they are scalable and maintainable.
• Help drive training and learning by coaching OCLO associates on self-service analytics, data literacy, and the effective use of new tools and solutions.
• Troubleshoot business partner project issues by examining data flows, logic, and interfaces to diagnose problems and recommend practical fixes.
• Collaborate closely with your team and the broader OCLO Operations team to ensure solutions align with data quality, security, and governance expectations.

While this position is open to working remotely in the United States, preference is for a candidate to work from a primary Nationwide office, Columbus OH, Des Moines IA, or Scottsdale AZ with the option for a hybrid working environment. 

Job Description Summary

Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you.
As a Data Solution Analyst, you’ll translate functional data and analytic requirements into solutions for consumption and use by the respective business or technology request or leveraging a variety of approved technologies. The technologies include (but are not limited to) Paxata, Tableau, Micro strategy, Business Objects, R, or other reporting and visualization solutions being considered for operationalization. You’ll also have the opportunity to guide others to leverage self-service techniques for business reporting and analytics.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Prompts reporting and analytic requirements from business and technology requestors to generate visualization or analysis.

• Implements data requirements, reporting and practices for an assigned area.

• 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.

• Creates and executes visualization techniques.

• Uses moderate visualization and analysis techniques to present findings of data exploration exercises to stakeholders based on requirements gleaned.

• Maps the flow of data and the business processes and/or technical interfaces which would be created or impacted and recommends solutions/adaptations.

• Collaborates with others to implement standardized data reporting, analytics, and visualization tools.

• Recommends and leads change in data analytics, methodologies and tools.

• Collaborates on profiling, mapping, and modeling tools.

• Partners with others on projects requiring data visualization.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director Data Leader.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education:  Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, business, statistics, math, a related field or comparable experience and education strongly preferred.  Graduate studies in business, statistics, math, computer science or a related field are a plus.

License/Certification/Designation:  Certifications are not required but encouraged.

Experience:  Five to eight years of relevant experience with data management/ organization/ analytics or practices. Experience in engaging business leaders, data architects and external consultants to identify and fill gaps in analytics environment. Wide experience in using data modeling and data science tools.  Experience with self-service analytic techniques. Experience in application of data acquisition and data wrangling. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:  Data application and practices knowledge. Solid oral and written communication skills. Ability to build relationships, facilitate meetings and influence others.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values:  Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values and Guiding Behaviors.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA:  The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job.  Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Consultant, Data Solution Engineer : $118,000.00-$222,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Data Solution Engineer : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00