Overview In this Product Architect role, you will own the technical quality and evolution of an application portfolio within Nationwide's Enterprise Solutions. You'll shape cloud-first strategies, reference architectures, and roadmaps across data, analytics, and platforms. Working in a cross-functional team, you'll translate business needs into secure, scalable architecture and guide initiatives from concept to adoption. This position offers impact at scale within a collaborative, agile culture and opportunities to influence enterprise data and analytics directions.
Compensation / Benefits- medical/dental/vision
- life insurance
- short and long-term disability
- paid time off and holidays
- pension plan
- 401(k) with company match
Responsibilities- Develop and maintain system architectures for product domains ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are met
- Lead strategies, blueprints, and roadmaps aligned with enterprise goals and guardrails
- Apply secure software and systems engineering practices throughout delivery
- Identify technology risk and debt, plan upgrades and maintenance for product platforms
- Design build patterns, standards, and compliance with architecture standards
- Drive technical quality via architecture/design/code reviews, capacity planning, modeling, and testing
- Mentor and develop technical talent and support teams adopting new technologies
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned
Key requirements- Eight or more years of technology experience
- Demonstrated expertise across multiple architectural domains and technologies
- Cloud experience preferred (AWS, Azure)
- Strong communication and facilitation skills; executive-level influence
- Ability to translate strategy into actionable architecture decisions and roadmaps
- Experience with cross-functional collaboration and delivering in Agile environments
- Knowledge of data governance, security best practices, and AI tools for enterprise analytics
- Ability to mentor teams and drive adoption of new technologies
- strong communication
- influence and stakeholder management
- leadership and mentoring
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Power BI
