Senior Technical Director

Role Description

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, the opportunities are endless! Let Nationwide help create your career journey! 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.

Senior Technical Director - Nationwide Financial Actuarial - Remote

If you are a strategic leader who enjoys modernizing data, tools, and applications while helping teams work smarter and faster, this is a unique opportunity to shape the future of actuarial technology at Nationwide Financial.

This role is ideal for a leader who can combine leadership depth, business acumen, technical acumen, and change leadership to drive a broader actuarial technology strategy across data, tooling, and applications.

What you will do

• Focus on strategic leadership across actuarial data, actuarial systems, and enterprise technology partnership.
• Define and drive the NF data strategy.
• Guide the evolution of actuarial tools and applications.
• Influence the future direction of the team’s technology roadmap.
• Play a key role in major data platform modernization work.
• Partner with IT and actuarial stakeholders to drive adoption and long-term execution.
• Shape how the organization thinks about emerging technology, including AI, in support of actuarial analysis, modeling, data, and decision support.
• Set direction, establish priorities, lead through others, and help the team execute at a higher strategic level.

What success looks like

• Set clear priorities and strategic direction for a technical team supporting the Actuarial organization.
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving actuarial, data, systems, and IT partners.
• Advance enterprise data platform and actuarial technology modernization efforts, including Snowflake and Databricks-related work.
• Translate complex technical and actuarial topics into practical business recommendations.
• Influence stakeholders, drive change, and improve execution across teams.

Ideal background

• Financial Services technology.
• Financial modeling.
• Data strategy.
• Insurance or financial services technology.
• Data platform modernization.
• Snowflake, SQL, or Databricks environments.
• Cross-functional partnership with IT.
• Strategic planning, business model innovation, and operational excellence.

Why this role stands out

This is a chance to step into a highly visible actuarial leadership role where you will influence data strategy, technology strategy, team direction, and business outcomes across Nationwide Financial.

If you are energized by leadership, data modernization, enterprise technology partnership, and building the future of Nationwide’s tools and applications, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. This role can be staffed remote.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.
• Achievement of Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries.
• Membership in the Society of Actuaries and American Academy of Actuaries.
• At least eight years Actuarial experience and Actuarial Council approval.

Requirements

• Demonstrates the highest level of technical actuarial expertise in life insurance product mechanics and embedded options, pricing models, life pricing assumptions, valuation and non-forfeiture laws, tax code 7702, state life insurance regulations.
• Leadership, influence, and communication skills.
• Ability to apply past actuarial experience to new product concepts and requirements, such as Principles Based Reserves.

Benefits

• 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.