Consultant, Technology Product Analyst

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! 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. The Consultant, Technology Product Analyst is a portfolio-facing technology consultant within DOTS — Data, Operations, Technology, and Solutions. The role partners with business and technology leaders, particularly Data Solutions stakeholders, to turn complex opportunities and problems into clear direction, actionable plans, and value-focused technology solutions. As a lead consulting partner, this role facilitates discovery, frames problems, guides initiative elaboration, shapes solution options, and helps move strategic intent into executable work. The consultant works closely with business stakeholders, partner BSAs, Architects, Software Engineering Product Managers (SEPMs), and delivery leaders to clarify outcomes, evaluate trade-offs, manage dependencies, sequence work, and build practical delivery plans. A key focus is developing and maintaining multi-year business and technology roadmaps that connect strategy, capabilities, initiatives, dependencies, investments, and delivery horizons.

Serve as a trusted technology consulting partner to assigned business leaders, product leaders, and partner BSAs. Lead discovery sessions to understand business goals, user and operational needs, current-state challenges, desired outcomes, constraints, and measures of success. Frame ambiguous problems so stakeholders can align on the opportunity, outcomes, key questions, and decisions needed. Guide initiatives from early concepts to well-shaped work with clear scope, outcomes, capabilities, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and decision points. Translate complex technology topics into clear business implications, options, recommendations, and decisions. Partner with Architects to explore solution options, evaluate trade-offs, and connect business needs to products, platforms, data, integrations, and technology capabilities. Help shape Data Solutions by connecting business questions and operational needs to data products, information flows, analytics, platforms, and solution options. Develop and maintain multi-year roadmaps with business partners, Architects, SEPMs, product leaders, and portfolio stakeholders. Translate strategic goals into sequenced views of capabilities, initiatives, outcomes, dependencies, milestones, investment considerations, and delivery timing. Help leaders understand priorities, trade-offs, capacity or funding implications, organizational readiness needs, and the impact of changing direction. Partner with SEPMs and delivery leaders to move well-shaped work into executable plans while preserving the intended business outcome. Clarify ownership, dependencies, risks, and decision needs as work progresses, and communicate progress, issues, changes, and decisions clearly. Contribute to consistent consulting practices, reusable artifacts, and improved ways of working across the team. #LI-TN1 Job Description Summary If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! As a Consultant, Technology Product Analyst, you’ll translate customer, business, and technology needs into actionable insights, clearly defined capability recommendations, and analysis that