Consultant, Software Engineer (Product Owner)

If you’re passionate about delivering secure technology solutions to support Nationwide’s mission of extraordinary care for its customers, consider joining their Technology team.

Digital Product Owner – Nationwide Technology

Work with a hybrid schedule: office in Columbus, Ohio, 2 days per week on Tuesdays & Thursdays.

Responsibilities include focusing on developer tooling, platform thinking, and incremental delivery for DevXP products.

Key Responsibilities

Backlog management & refinement

Maintain, refine, and prioritize backlogs for DevXP products including GitHub, Artifactory, Software Engineering Environments, and LaunchDarkly.

Break high-level outcomes into clear epics and well formed user stories with acceptance criteria.

Participate in product planning meetings for the assets.

Discovery & stakeholder collaboration

Partner with engineering leaders, Tech Leads, SREs, and security/platform partners to understand problems, pain points, and desired outcomes.

Direct outreach campaigns to developers and SEPMs for product opportunities, surveys, and interviews.

Participate in and occasionally facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and office hours.

Delivery support

Work with agile teams to ensure stories are clear, sized, and ready for sprint planning.

Clarify requirements, answer questions, and remove day to day blockers with guidance from senior product and architecture partners.

Measurement & feedback

Use DX metrics, adoption data, and qualitative feedback to refine priorities and demonstrate value.

Partner with data teams to plan and facilitate ingestion of data to show product adoption, ROI, and friction reduction.

Communication

Draft press releases, announcements, SharePoint sites, newsletters, and visuals explaining product changes.

Plan and facilitate training sessions for technical and non technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

1–3 years of experience in product, business analysis, project, or delivery roles in a technology environment.

Deep understanding of modern software delivery (Agile, CI/CD, Git, Cloud) and willingness to grow in developer experience and platform concepts.

Demonstrated ability to:

Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

Facilitate or participate in backlog refinement and sprint ceremonies.

Work with multiple stakeholders and balance competing priorities.

Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable tailoring messages to engineers and non technical partners.

Curiosity and growth mindset: eager to learn from data and feedback.

Knowledge

Experience working with or around internal developer platforms or golden paths (templates, pipelines, shared services).

Developer tooling (GitHub, CI/CD tools, artifact repositories, feature flags, observability tooling).

Knowledge and exposure to platform or infrastructure product teams.

Familiarity with experience/feedback tooling (surveys, telemetry dashboards) and using data to inform prioritization.

Success in the First 12 Months

Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog for assigned products with clear alignment to DevXP and enterprise outcomes.

Drive one major product increment from ideation to adoption.

Demonstrate increasing independence in day to day product decisions while escalating appropriately on higher risk items.

Software Engineer – Nationwide Technology

Focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost effective technology solutions for business partners.

Key Responsibilities

Apply secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Mentor and train team members on design techniques, tools, and coding standards.

Provide strategic advice on using technology to achieve business goals.

Drive cross collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.

Analyze, solve, develop, test, debug, document, and deploy software according to standards and best practices.

Champion the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling, and techniques.

Ensure continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice, and innovation.

Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Typical Skills and Experiences

Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics, or related field (strongly preferred).

Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis; three years of experience in project management preferred.

Hands on technical leadership experience, setting technical direction, proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or JavaScript.

Knowledge of software development lifecycle and ability to tackle sophisticated problems.

Ability to thrive in a team environment; insurance/financial services industry knowledge is a plus.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

Life insurance and short and long term disability coverage.

Paid time off: minimum 18 days for newly hired associates, nine paid holidays, Lifetime PTO, Unity Day PTO.

401(k) with company match.

Company paid pension plan.

Business casual attire.

Additional benefits such as wellness programs, enrollment assistance, and more.

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 protected by applicable law.

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