Responsibilities:
Requirements Elicitation and Documentation: Gather and document requirements from users, focusing on data and API needs.
Project Scope Decomposition and Planning: Break down project scope into manageable tasks and create detailed project plans.
Cross-Functional Team Dependencies: Identify and manage dependencies across various teams to ensure smooth project execution.
Data Architecture Understanding: Navigate ambiguous requests and suggest solutions based on a solid understanding of data architecture.
Complexity Translation: Translate complex technical requirements into clear, consumable information for stakeholders.
Facilitation: Lead discussions and workshops with large groups and executive stakeholders to gather input and drive consensus.
Approachability and Relationship Building: Foster strong relationships with team members and stakeholders through approachability and effective communication.
Time Management: Independently analyze and manage time to work on multiple efforts simultaneously.
Partnership with Asset Suite Lead: Collaborate with the Asset Suite Lead Requirements Analyst to adhere to core requirement standards and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Hands on: Willingness to be hands on working on data profiling, mapping/modeling and any other related tasks required for the successful delivery of assigned projects.
Attributes:
Leadership: Ability to inspire and guide a team towards achieving common goals.
Analytical Thinking: Strong capability to analyze complex data sets and derive meaningful insights.
Technical Proficiency: Expertise in data management and analysis tools.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
Compensation grade G
Job Description Summary
Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable 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 a Data Solution Analyst, you’ll translate functional data and analytic requirements into solutions for consumption and use by the respective business or technology request or leveraging a variety of approved technologies. The technologies include (but are not limited to) Paxata, Tableau, Micro strategy, Business Objects, R, or other reporting and visualization solutions being considered for operationalization. You’ll also have the opportunity to guide others to leverage self-service techniques for business reporting and analytics.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Prompts reporting and analytic requirements from business and technology requestors to generate visualization or analysis.
Implements data requirements, reporting and practices for an assigned area.
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.
Creates and executes visualization techniques.
Uses moderate visualization and analysis techniques to present findings of data exploration exercises to stakeholders based on requirements gleaned.
Maps the flow of data and the business processes and/or technical interfaces which would be created or impacted and recommends solutions/adaptations.
Collaborates with others to implement standardized data reporting, analytics, and visualization tools.
Recommends and leads change in data analytics, methodologies and tools.
Collaborates on profiling, mapping, and modeling tools.
Partners with others on projects requiring data visualization.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director 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: Five to eight years of relevant experience with data management/ organization/ analytics or practices. Experience in engaging business leaders, data architects and external consultants to identify and fill gaps in analytics environment. Wide experience in using data modeling and data science tools. Experience with self-service analytic techniques. Experience in application of data acquisition and data wrangling. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Data application and practices knowledge. Solid oral and written communication skills. Ability to build relationships, facilitate meetings and influence others.
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 the Nationwide Values and Guiding Behaviors.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)
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.