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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.
This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week.
The Network Product Architect role sits within Nationwide's Security & Infrastructure Architecture organization, encompassing the long-term architectural direction, modernization strategy, and security posture of the enterprise network. This is an attractive opportunity for someone who wants broad, enterprise-wide impact and is passionate about shaping how Nationwide connects, secures, and scales its network. The architect owns the technical vision and roadmap, driving Zero Trust and Micro-Segmentation maturity and designing how the network integrates with cloud-native platforms, AI/ML workloads, PCI enclaves, and international operations - partnering across network engineering, cloud platform, BISO, CSOC, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure the network remains secure, scalable, and aligned to our multi-cloud strategy.
Key technical competencies include:
Network security architecture (Zero Trust, SASE, firewalls) - designing and governing ingress/egress models including WAF, CDN, DDoS, Bot Protection (Akamai HEN), ZTNA/SSE (Zscaler), next-gen firewalls (Palo Alto), and micro-segmentation across on-prem and cloud
Cloud networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP - VPC/subnet design, Transit Gateway topologies, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute patterns, origin lockdown, and cloud-native firewall solutions
Network connectivity design (WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, P2P, IPsec, BYOR, Private Link) - authoring reusable patterns that standardize how Nationwide connects data centers, cloud, remote offices, and international sites
Architecture governance and road mapping - owning the Network APR, contributing to Technology Product Roadmaps, and participating in TOP intake and architecture reviews
Automation, Agentic and AIOps concepts - championing network automation, infrastructure-as-code, architecture-as-code, policy-as-code, and Agentic practices for network configuration
Day to day, this architect sets and evolves network reference architectures, reviews and approves significant solution designs impacting the network and security edge, leads deep-dive design sessions with engineering and application teams, and translates platform needs into actionable roadmaps and investment proposals. They also play a visible role in mentoring and knowledge transfer by coaching engineers through architectural decision-making, documenting standards, and helping grow network and security architecture talent at Nationwide.
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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 Product Architect you'll support a line(s) of business, staff function(s) or infrastructure domain(s) and is responsible for technical quality, integrity, and evolution of the application portfolio. You'll also be responsible for identifying technical risk and sustaining a product domain, a business/staff function(s) or technology portfolio.
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Nationwide · Ohio - Columbus, Three Nationwide Plaza