Investment Professional - Data Governance

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This role connects across all Investment stakeholders, including Data Management and Reporting, Technology, Operations, Controllership, and Enterprise Data Governance. The associate will translate business needs into clear data requirements, strengthen ownership and controls, and help deliver practical improvements across investment systems and reporting processes.

The role requires deep curiosity, strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to influence partners through expertise, preparation, and collaboration.
 

Data Governance responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders and data owners to define data requirements, business terms, ownership, quality expectations, and downstream impacts.
• Support governance processes including data-change intake, decision tracking, data dictionary management, CDE review, and governance committee preparation.
• Lead or facilitate data-quality issue identification, triage, root-cause analysis, remediation planning, and communication.
• Support data-quality scorecards and measurement related to completeness, accuracy, timeliness, issue volume, source health, and resolution.
• Coordinate with Technology and business partners on new and changing data elements, reference data, system enhancements, and reporting improvements.
• Evaluate data and reporting impacts across a complex data ecosystem of platforms and business insight tools.
• Support CDE, catalog, lineage, and metadata practices in partnership with Enterprise Data Governance.
• Facilitate working sessions, document decisions, and help build shared business understanding through training and knowledge sharing.

The role reflects the Investments Data Governance model and its focus on reliable data, clear accountability, transparent issue management, and quality controls embedded throughout the data lifecycle.

The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of the following location:

Columbus: One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus OH, 43215

Work schedule: 3 days in office, 2 days remote.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

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Job Description Summary

Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data and business intelligence solutions that are secure, reliable, accessible, 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 an Investment Data Management professional, you will serve as the primary liaison between the business and Technology, developing and driving data and analytic strategies and solutions to deliver prioritized business capabilities. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining the vision for the data ecosystem, with focus on improving efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of data-driven business processes and decisions. Your role provides business-minded thought leadership throughout all phases of data development, including intake, work initiation, requirement gathering and iteration planning and project estimations. You will serve as the data-related voice of the customer in translating functional data and analytic requirements into solutions for consumption and use by the respective business area, managing communications between Technology and business, resolving blockers/questions/support needs, conducting/coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and approving releases. You will evaluate potential data impacts, coordinate with stakeholders, and serve as steward for data governance, access rights/audits and defect resolution.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Identifies, executes, and communicates data strategy opportunities, defining long-term goals and key performance indicators to further a data-driven culture in support of business priorities.

• Consults and provides direction on acquisition, curation, and consumption of data for analytical and operational uses, producing data source documentation and assisting with development and maintenance of reference data and mastering rules to ensure a single version of the truth across all data consumers.

• Collaborates on mapping the end-to-end flow of data and the business processes and/or technical interfaces which would be created or impacted and recommends solutions/adaptations.

• Develops collaborative relationships with business, Technology, and vendor partners, communicating data impacts and promoting transparency around data issue identification and resolution.

• Prompts data, reporting and analytic requirements from business requestors to generate solutions.

• Participates in planning and execution of UAT, triage issues and works with development team on remediation approach to ensure data integrity.

• Performs data management activities, including classifying information into logical categories, generating data lineage, developing data quality and transformation rules, conducting complex data profiling, implementing data monitoring techniques using standardized tools, reviewing daily exceptions, reloading data, and applying data overrides as necessary. 

• Uses moderate to complex visualization techniques and skills to present data in support of business needs.

• Enforces data governance structure, standards, and procedures to ensure data is well-defined, consistent, accurate, accessible, and secure.

• Governs all data access requests and has final right of refusal for accesses.

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of investment asset classes, and those data elements most critical to support business processes.

• Integrates emerging data and analytic trends, competitive research, and industry best practices into Nationwide.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to AVP or 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: 6-10 years of relevant experience with data management organization/standards or practices.  Experience engaging business leaders, data architects and external consultants to identify and fill gaps in data and analytics environment. Proficient in data acquisition, data wrangling and/or data visualization techniques and tools (i.e., SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI, etc.), and cloud technologies – Azure and AWS (i.e., Redshift, S3, EC2, etc.). Experience in statistical analysis, interpreting results in determining data quality and fit for purpose. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.  

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:

• Data application and practices knowledge, with expertise using SQL to perform data analysis (experience in Snowflake and Databricks preferred)

• Sound decision making and strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

• Exhibits interpersonal skills and effective written and oral communication

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs

• Demonstrated expertise in building relationships, facilitating meetings, influencing others, and setting priorities

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 Nationwide Values

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

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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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 Investment Professional : $100,000.00-$168,000.00The expected starting salary range for Investment Professional : $100,000.00-$168,000.00