Nationwide's Information Technology team is looking for a leader to help advance the Nationwide Technology Strategy and support the continued growth of the Annuity business. The Software Engineering Product Manager will help the team continue strong delivery and support, be a flexible technology organization, and enable extraordinary care for members and partners. This role will also support the transition to a modernized Annuity platform and a shift from a project-centric to customer journey-centric delivery model focused on delivering business outcomes.
Requirements
- Primary technology stack includes Cobol/Mainframe, AWS Cloud, Angular and Java Batch.
- Detailed understanding and knowledge of the systems development life cycle and modern methodologies, practices, tools, and techniques.
- Solid understanding of concepts and techniques in project delivery, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis.
- Ability to develop and implement roadmap strategies.
Responsibilities
- Leads the team to provide operational stability, SLA adherence, and quality delivery of enhancements for Annuity applications while enabling new business and technology capabilities, products, and partnerships.
- Supports the engineering build of the application suite and non technical efforts for the products.
- Responsible for delivery availability and resiliency following established operating mechanisms and best practices.
- Assists in the development and implementation of application suite roadmaps through the evaluation of business needs, competitive landscape, technology currency and information security considerations.
- Manages risk mitigation controls and provides support for internal and external audits.
- Partners with leaders to ensure a viable total cost of ownership and ongoing health and wellness of applications.
Other
- This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Wednesdays & Thursdays.
- Accountable for a team of 10 - 12 direct report associates, as well as matrix and contractor/offshore team members.
- Sustaining an engaged and high-performing team in a remote/hybrid work environment.
- Managing the day-to-day responsibilities of labor demand and capacity management; operational availability and resiliency; prioritization and sequencing of business and technology initiatives.
- Driving a digital mindset within the team, focused on enabling business outcomes through automation, innovation, and technology.
- Hire and develop talent, provide consistent coaching and feedback.
- Represents voice of the customer, acts in a forward-facing role to business partners as an active member of a portfolio management team in the advocation of business case development, planning, financial management and evaluation of portfolio.
