Consultant, Product Architect; Marketing Technology

Position: Consultant, Product Architect (Marketing Technology)
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 does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

As the Product Architect for Marketing Technology, you will shape our most critical blue‑chip investments across AI, data, and modern platforms (CDP, DAM, CMS), translating an ambitious Marketing strategy into architectures we can deliver. You'll sit at the intersection of Marketing, Technology, and AI, setting guardrails and patterns that balance innovation with brand safety, privacy, and risk. This role is ideal for anyone who is looking to lead in innovation, loves unraveling complex problems, and is looking for a chance to continue to grow our business outcomes for Nationwide's world‑class Marketing group.

As a part of the WLMT Product Architecture team, you will own the technical quality, integrity, and evolution of the application portfolio for the Marketing capabilities and product domains. You will ensure that the architecture we deliver achieves clear business outcomes.

This Product Architecture role collaborates to align our Marketing business and enterprise technology strategies, translating critical needs into pragmatic architectural direction, guardrails, and product/data roadmaps (now, next, future). They act as a utility player across planning through testing-providing context and architectural decisions, unblocking teams in delivery, and ensuring functional, non-functional, security, and risk requirements are met. They lead architecture governance for their products, coordinating key reviews across AI and mobile initiatives, security and legal/compliance, and technology risk and technical debt.

They maintain clear capability‑to‑product‑to‑application landscapes and ecosystem views, modeling strong communication and bias‑aware decision‑making as a trusted partner to product, delivery, and business stakeholders.

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 will support a line or lines of business or infrastructure domain and are responsible for the technical quality, integrity and evolution of the application portfolio sustaining a product domain, a business function(s) within a Business Solution Area (BSA) or the technology portfolio.

The Product Architect supports a line of business or infrastructure domain and is responsible for technical quality, integrity and evolution of the application portfolio sustaining a product domain, a business function(s) within a business solution area (BSA) or the technology portfolio.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

* Develop and maintain systems architecture for a product domain, business function or the technology portfolio. Ensuring that the product meets functional and non-functional requirements.

* Key contributor on strategies, blueprints and roadmaps for a given product/application/technology area focused on technical directions like Cloud First. Ensure product/application roadmaps are aligned with solution and enterprise roadmaps with the correct guard rails.

* 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.

* Identifies technology risk, technical currency and technical debt…