Specialist, Data Solution Analyst

If you're passionate about being part of a diverse organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to deliver innovative business solutions with excellence, then Nationwide's Legal 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 Specialist, Data Solution Analyst role is a hands-on builder and problem-solver supporting the Office of the Chief Legal Officer (OCLO). This position turns OCLO’s data, reporting, and workflow needs into practical solutions that help attorneys, paralegals, and operations partners work more efficiently and make better decisions. This role focuses on how OCLO applies approved data, visualization, and automation tools to its unique legal and risk use cases. In This Role, You Will

• Consult with OCLO business partners to understand their data, reporting, and workflow needs, translating questions and ideas into actionable solution requirements.
• Design, build, and iterate on reporting, visualization, and automation solutions using approved enterprise technologies, ensuring they are scalable and maintainable.
• Help drive training and learning by coaching OCLO associates on self-service analytics, data literacy, and the effective use of new tools and solutions.
• Troubleshoot business partner project issues—diving into data flows, logic, and interfaces to diagnose problems and recommend practical fixes.
• Collaborate closely with the rest of your team and the broader OCLO Operations team so that solutions align with data quality, security, and governance expectations.

This role reports to the Director, Business Insights within OCLO Operations. While this position is open to working remotely in the United States, preference is for a candidate to work from a primary Nationwide office, Columbus OH, Des Moines IA, or Scottsdale AZ with the option for a hybrid working environment.

Job Description

Summary Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you. As a Data Solution Analyst, you’ll translate functional data and analytic requirements into solutions for consumption and use by the respective business or technology request or leveraging a variety of approved technologies. The technologies include (but are not limited to) Paxata, Tableau, Micro strategy, Business Objects, R, or other reporting and visualization solutions being considered for operationalization. You’ll also have the opportunity to guide others to leverage self-service techniques for business reporting and analytics.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Elicits reporting and analytic requirements from business and technology requestors to generate visualization or analysis.
• Supports implementation of data requirements and practices for an assigned area.
• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Under supervision creates and executes standard visualization techniques.
• Uses visualization and analysis techniques to present findings of data exploration exercises to stakeholders based on requirements gleaned.
• Maps the flow of data and the business processes and/or technical interfaces which would be created or impacted and recommends solutions/adaptations.
• Collaborates with others to implement standardized data reporting, analytics, and visualization tools.
• Works on profiling, mapping, and modeling tools.
• With guidance may partner with others on projects requiring data visualization.

May Perform Other Responsibilities As Assigned. Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director Data Leader. Typical Skills And Experiences 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 plu