Director - Data & AI Solutions - Financial Services, Actuarial - REMOTE

Nationwide Financial Technical Director - ActuarialNationwide is seeking a forward-thinking technology leader to drive enterprise-scale data, analytics, cloud modernization, and artificial intelligence solutions across Nationwide Financial’s Actuarial organization. This role is ideal for a hands-on data and technology strategist who can translate business priorities into scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions and help actuarial teams adopt modern data and AI-enabled ways of working.Reporting to the Senior Technical Director, you will serve as a trusted advisor and primary liaison between actuarial and business stakeholders and technology teams. You will identify high-value opportunities, lead discovery and solution-design discussions, shape technology roadmaps, and guide delivery across data, platform engineering, DevOps, security, governance, architecture, and application development teams. This role will also provide technical leadership and mentoring to others.Key Responsibilities:Crafts direction for the compilation, categorization and analysis of data.Constructs sophisticated testing tools and completes analysis of product calculations.Designs and maintains actuarial, projection and valuation models.Conducts or delegates financial reporting and analysis.Leads, consults and builds strategies for pricing and implementation of products.Completes risk analysis specific lines of business.Leads efforts to establish reserves and other valuation items under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP, and tax) for products.Builds strategic direction and provides analysis and pricing of reinsurance.Develops and implements effective communication strategies and recommendations to leadership.Completes activities related to a niche phase of data and analytics such as data governance, data strategy development, data modeling, data requirements, data manipulation and/or requirement elicitation.Leads sophisticated business processes, new programs/modifications of existing applications and/or cross-functional projects/teams.Typical Skills and Experiences:Education: Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, computer science, or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.Experience: Typically, eight or more years of actuarial or similar experience.Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, company actuarial systems and databases, and their integration, and technical facility with leading computer tools and technology. Mastery of Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), programming languages and actuarial models. Basic level of organizational agility and issue resolution. Proficient level of command skills, strategic agility, delegation, inspiring others, business perspective, and accounting. Mastery level of perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning on the fly, and making the best use of system capabilities.Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.Job Conditions:Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)Working Conditions: Normal office environment.We currently anticipate accepting applications until 11/14/2026. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.BenefitsWe 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.This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states. Nationwide