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# Investment Professional, Data Governance

- **Company:** Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
- **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $168,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Data Control, Data Dictionary, Data Governance, Data Integrity, Data Profiling, Data Security, Dataspaces, Data Visualization, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Reference Data, Power BI, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Data Processing, Snowflake, Data Strategy, Information Technology, Data Lineage, Data Analytics, Data Management, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nationwide.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Nationwide_Career/job/Ohio---Columbus-One-Nationwide-Plaza/Investment-Professional--Data-Governance_100402

## About the Role

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.

## Description

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, the opportunities are endless! Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, "on your side" goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

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., 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., * 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, We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.


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