AVP, Software Engineering Leader

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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. Addendum: The AVP, Software Engineering role for Security & Infrastructure (S&I) serves as the enterprise leader for security and infrastructure strategy, portfolio management, and transformation delivery, with accountability for aligning technology and security investments to business priorities while ensuring predictable, high-quality outcomes. You'll be responsible for defining and executing strategy, leading portfolio governance, business case rigor, financial management prioritization, and vendor partnerships; and establishing centralized metrics, reporting, and risk oversight. The role drives AI-enabled delivery, DevSecOps maturity, and operating model evolution, influencing how work is executed across Security & Infrastructure. Success requires balancing speed, quality, and flow of work through data-driven decisions, partnering across S&I leadership, delivery teams, and stakeholders, and building high-performing teams through strong talent, performance, and organizational leadership. The ideal candidate demonstrates an engineering mindset across both infrastructure and application development, along with excellent communication skills (verbal, written, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation) and the ability to provide technical, project, and people leadership. This individual brings strong information security and project management capabilities, with the ability to identify, analyze, and mitigate risk, operate effectively across all levels of technical and executive leadership, leverage technology in innovative ways to meet risk management requirements, and foster strong relationships across the enterprise and with external stakeholders. #LI-ML1 Job Description Summary Provide strategic direction and executive oversight to the services performed by Software Development Services (SDS) - Enable the implementation of the Nationwide Technology Strategy and achieving yearly objectives. - Provide strategic leadership by driving innovation and continuous improvement. - Provide solid general management capabilities to this area through strong operational management, financial management and people management based on the guidelines established within Nationwide Technology. - Establish and maintain strong customer relationships with business unit CIO Offices, BSA leaders, and ECIO executives. - Establishes and maintains strong relationships with peers within the SDS team and the Program and Application Services (PAS) office. - Participate actively in Nationwide's IT initiatives to support our strategies and continuous improvement as one Nationwide team. Job Description Reporting Relationships: SVP, Chief Information Security Officer . Approximately 20 direct report Scrum Masters that lead individual Agile Teams across Nationwide. The direct reports will be a combination of different banded Scrum Master roles. Leads in a highly matrixed organization and leads Agile teams that are composed from many reporting relationships. Core Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of software by leveraging software engineering best practices along with industry best practices in "HOW" work is accomplished on Nationwide Application Assets. Partners with other delivery roles to measure delivery progress and guide improvements in speed, quality, productivity, and continuous delivery on a year over year basis. Governs best practice adoption by working with BSA leaders, Project Delivery Services, Requirements and Testing Services and other stakeholders to drive effective, efficient and high-quality software implementations from within our Nationwide Agile teams. Leverages best practices related to requirements flow, software design, Agile and DevOps principles. Acts as a thought leader within Technology and fosters close working relationships with the other components of Nationwide Technology. Drives continuous improvement in software development and other Technology capabilities. Helps drive connectivity on best practice adoption within Nationwide and from outside Nationwide. Directs the personnel administration of Technology employees which includes but is not limited to hiring, training, supervising and promoting subordinates or their staff regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender or non-disqualifying handicap/disability. Typical Skills and Experiences: Education: College degree preferred. Experience: Technical and managerial experience. Proven software development knowledge / d

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