Consultant, Software Engineer (Apigee, ACE IBM)

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus Ohio office 2 days per week on Wednesdays & Thursdays.

About the role

You will be a working in Nationwide Financial Technology - Life Technology as a hands-on technical leader for API and web services delivery with significant responsibility for ACE (IBM App Connect Enterprise) integration design. Youll shape patterns and guardrails define reusable message flows and subflows codify error handling retries and observability and guide teams on versioning and deployment across environments. You will partner with vendor teams and platform owners to evolve our integration roadmap (synchronous and event-driven) improve resiliency and performance and elevate engineering practices across the enterprise. This role blends architecture enablement and delivery ideal for a builder-coach who thrives at the intersection of technical depth and cross-team influence.

What youll do

• Lead enterprise API design development and governance using Apigee championing standards for security performance and reusability.

• Define and enforce REST conventions JSON/XML models and OpenAPI (OAS 2/3) specifications ensuring consistency with Nationwide engineering guidelines.

• Drive integration patterns and best practices in ACE (IBM App Connect Enterprise) for robust maintainable services and event flows.

• Implement and harden edge policies on IBM DataPower including routing threat protection and service-level controls.

• Own SSL/TLS and certificate lifecycle management (mTLS keystores/truststores rotation processes) across API gateways and services.

• Provide vendor partner management & guidance: set expectations review designs and ensure on-time high-quality delivery.

• Advance web services interoperability including WSDL/XSD structures namespaces and schema conventions.

• Apply industry insurance data models & standards and bring practical insurance & financial domain knowledge to design decisions.

• Contribute to application design & architecture: reference designs decision records and non-functional requirements (reliability performance observability).

• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to business partners and leaders; translate business needs into actionable technical plans.

• Coach and upskill engineers within and beyond your team; lead design reviews brown-bags and hands-on pairing.

• Elevate testing & debugging practices (unit integration contract tests); instrument services and build actionable telemetry.

• Use Splunk to investigate production issues create dashboards/alerts and drive data-informed reliability improvements.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience with enterprise API platforms and Apigee policy development (JWT/OAuth quota/rate limiting transformation mediation).

• Deep knowledge of REST standards; strong hands-on with JSON XML and OpenAPI (OAS 2/3) design-first workflows.

• Expertise in ACE (IBM App Connect Enterprise): message flows error handling observability and deployment best practices.

• Proficiency with IBM DataPower gateway administration and policy hardening.

• Strong SSL/TLS and certificate management fundamentals including mTLS across distributed systems.

• Proven web services experience with WSDL/XSD conventions and schema design.

• Familiarity with insurance data models and standards and practical insurance & financial systems knowledge.

• Demonstrated application design & architecture skills (patterns scalability resiliency security-by-design).

• Excellent communication skills: partner with business stakeholders guide vendor teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Hands-on coaching and mentorship experience across multiple teams.

• Strong testing & debugging skills; track record of improving service reliability with Splunk dashboards searches and alerts.

• Expertise with common API & web service tools (e.g. Postman SoapUI Swagger/OpenAPI tooling).

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

• Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques tools and coding standards.

• Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.

• Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.

• Analyzes solutions develops tests debugs documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices.

• Champions the use of DevSecOps practices tooling and techniques.

• Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training practice and innovation.

• Manages individual project priorities deadlines and deliverables.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science management information systems mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.

Experience: Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis. Three years of experience in project management is preferred.

Knowledge Abilities and Skills: Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one programming language such as Java C Python JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria including leadership skills competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring managers leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.

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 coveragepaid 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.

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