Consultant, Product Architect

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.

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week.

This role resides within the Enterprise Data Architecture team under Technology Enterprise Solutions (TES) and operates in the enterprise shared space, providing a unique opportunity to influence direction and shape decisions across a broad range of business and technology domains. Through its impact on enterprise-wide architecture, platforms, standards, and strategic investments, this role helps define how Nationwide advances its data, analytics, and technology capabilities at scale.

• Demonstrated experience as a hands-on architect, with deep expertise in product architecture across business intelligence, analytics, data platforms—including Snowflake and Databricks—and related enterprise technology domains.

• Strong understanding of analytical data architecture, including data warehouses, lakehouses, curated data products, and business intelligence consumption patterns.

• Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and integration patterns across AWS and Azure, including secure connectivity, identity and access management, platform integration, scalability, resilience, and operational governance.

• Experience architecting and guiding enterprise BI platforms such as Power BI and Tableau, including self-service analytics, governed reporting, semantic modeling, data-access patterns, platform modernization, and tool rationalization.

• Awareness of emerging capabilities, including agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and other technologies shaping enterprise data and analytics.

• Ability to evaluate technology capabilities and translate business needs into fit-for-purpose platform guidance, reference architectures, standards, guardrails, and target-state roadmaps.

• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to executives, engineers, product teams, business partners, cybersecurity, risk, and governance stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into execution by producing actionable architecture decisions, solution designs, standards, implementation plans, migration strategies, and delivery roadmaps.

• Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration, resolve architectural dependencies, and guide initiatives from concept and proof of concept through implementation, adoption, and operationalization.

• Knowledge of data governance principles, security best practices, and emerging AI tools relevant to enterprise data and analytics.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill complex architectural concepts into clear, concise, and actionable guidance for diverse audiences.

• Experience delivering technology solutions in fast-paced, Agile environments while balancing business priorities, technical quality, and delivery timelines.

• Demonstrated thought leadership, with the ability to influence stakeholders, build alignment, and lead continuous improvement across architecture, platforms, and delivery practices.

• Ability to develop application and platform roadmaps, identify and mitigate technology risks, and collaborate effectively with other key roles and stakeholders.

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Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure, scalable technology solutions that support a company committed to extraordinary care for its customers, Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Our industry-leading technology workforce operates in an agile environment and collaborative culture to deliver innovative solutions and meaningful business outcomes. If that aligns with your aspirations, we want to hear from you!
As a Product Architect, you support a line of business or infrastructure domain and are responsible for the technical quality, integrity, and evolution of the application portfolio within a Technology Solution Area.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develops and maintains systems architecture for a product domain, business function, or technology portfolio, ensuring that the product meets functional and non-functional requirements.

• Key contributor on strategies, blueprints, and roadmaps for a given product/application/technology area focused on technical directions like Cloud First. Ensure product/application roadmaps are aligned with solution and enterprise roadmaps with the appropriate guardrails.

• 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 gaps, and technical debt when planning for new solutions, technology upgrades, and maintenance of product/application platforms.

• Crafts moderate to complex build patterns and accelerators, establishes building code standards, and ensures compliance with architecture standards.

• Drives technical quality by conducting or participating in architecture, design and code reviews, capacity planning, modeling and testing.

• Supports the development of technical talent by providing feedback, suggestions, and creating visibility to other leaders.

• Assists in mentoring teams involved in a product/application development when unfamiliar, new technologies or techniques are introduced.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned. 

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director or AVP, Technology Chief Architect.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field are preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications or designation are not required but encouraged. 

Experience: Eight or more years of experience in a technology domain. Demonstrated expertise across multiple architectural domains and technologies, with awareness of emerging trends. Cloud experience preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Good 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.

Other criteria, including leadership or technical 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.
Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions: Hybrid to normal office environment. Some travel may be required. 

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.

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, Product Architect : $118,000.00-$222,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Product Architect : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00