Sr Consultant, Software Engineer - AI / Software Engineer

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information 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.

A Senior Consultant, Software Engineer generalist position is being opened on our internal Nationwide Tech Consulting team reporting through the Developer Platform and Experience (DevXP) organization. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated strong problem solving and communication skills, be self-driven, innovative, and have deep full stack software development experience in both AWS/Kubernetes. Credibility and influence are critical traits for Sr Consultants as they are frequently asked to present emerging and evolving technology topics to Nationwide Senior Leadership.

This role is responsible for:

• Ushering in new technologies and growing adoption

• Uplifting and accelerating development teams across the enterprise

• Setting standards for code development

• Solving/debugging critical issues

• Acting as a mentor

• Bringing consistency in development of quality code

In addition, candidates must be in tune with industry trends and be tasked with driving maturity and innovation forward across a wide number of existing and emerging technologies.

The primary focus of this role is with software engineering in building and deploying AI Agents and the secondary focus with leveraging AI as a software engineer. Sought out candidates are expected to be capable of hands-on development and will have demonstrated these abilities by being current and active contributors to codebases and production systems for one or more of the following:

• Generative AI / Agentic AI tools such as AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q, OpenAI, LangChain, OpenSearch

• Choosing the right algorithms (deep learning, reinforcement learning, Bayesian Networks)

• Gathering and preparing AI ready data using some one or more of the following languages and frameworks

  • Python (Pandas, pytest, PyUnit)

  • Spark

  • SQL

• Github Copilot, Cline, Cursor, Sourcegraph or other AI Developer Assistants

Other valued technical skills include:

• Splunk

• New Relic

• Experience implementing DevSecOps concepts is expected

• APIs and API Proxies/Apigee

• Event Streaming/Kafka

• Data Engineering (Talend, Databricks, Informatica)

• Vector Databases

• Core AWS services and CI/CD tooling such as CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CDK, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, etc.

• Cloud Native development and CI/CD tooling including Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Harness, Helm, Podman, etc.

Compensation grade H5

Job Description Summary

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. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

• Mentors and trains others on design techniques, tools and coding standards. 

• Executes and provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals. 

• Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams. 

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and best practices. 

• Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques. 

• Drives continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation. 

• Works across organizations and product areas to drive joint technical roadmaps. 

• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables proactively. 

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Director or above.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree.

Experience: Eight or more years of analysis and technology experience. 

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in multiple programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Extensive knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus. 

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 Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Office environment may vary based on team and/or location. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.

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.