Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher

Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher

Reporting to the Director, Catastrophe Risk Modeling this role is a strong opportunity for a data‑driven actuarial professional who enjoys working at the intersection of catastrophe research, analytics, and modern data engineering.

The Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher will help strengthen how catastrophe‑related data is sourced, validated, transformed, and delivered so the team can produce high‑quality analytics and more actionable insight for business partners.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, OH. However, applications from candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered.

• Support catastrophe risk research and analytics tied to physical property, weather, and catastrophe exposure data.
• Build, enhance, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes that prepare data for research, modeling, and reporting use cases.
• Use tools such as SQL, Python, R, Databricks, and Snowflake to source, transform, validate, and manage large datasets.
• Support data validation and reporting workflows that help ensure outputs are accurate, consistent, and decision‑useful.
• Contribute to process improvement and automation efforts that make catastrophe analytics more efficient, scalable, and impactful.
• Researches and implements financial engineering, data science and statistical techniques for risk management and business applications.
• Creates and tests risk limits to provide guidance on asset allocation, risk transfer, and product growth decisions.
• Owns all facets of complex quantitative modeling processes. Ensures models align with industry standards.
• Consults and collaborates to ensure model assumptions, processes, and outputs are well understood and that modeling standard methodologies are upheld throughout the organization.
• Reviews and analyzes model output to identify model limitations and their impact. Mitigates model limitations with the adaptation of appropriate, corrective quantitative methods.
• Creates and owns model documentation for rationale, assumptions and business continuity.
• Consults and develops creative and innovative solutions to support strategic business problems.
• Acts as the technology owner for risk analytics.

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as data science, statistics, mathematics, actuarial science, computer science, engineering, finance, or a related discipline.
• ACAS level actuary credential required; additional progress toward FCAS credential preferred.
• Previous professional experience in P&C pricing or reserving position (catastrophe modeling specific experience highly preferred).
• Strong SQL capability and working proficiency in Python and/or R.
• A naturally curious, detail‑oriented approach, with the judgment to question results, investigate discrepancies, and improve the quality of outputs.

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid 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.

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.

The national salary range for Sr Consultant, Risk Analytics Researcher is $-$. The expected starting salary range is $-$.