Senior Technical Director - Nationwide Financial Actuarial - Remote

Senior Technical Director - Nationwide Financial Actuarial - Remote

Actuarial Technology Strategy | Data Strategy | Snowflake | Databricks | AI | Insurance | Financial Services

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

This role will have a strong focus on strategic leadership across actuarial data, actuarial systems, and enterprise technology partnership.

You will help define and drive the NF data strategy, guide the evolution of actuarial tools and applications, and influence the future direction of the team's technology roadmap.

You will play a key role in major data platform modernization work, including helping the organization drive technology transformations while partnering with IT and actuarial stakeholders to drive adoption and long-term execution.

You will also help shape how the organization thinks about emerging technology, including AI, in support of actuarial analysis, modeling, data, and decision support.

This role is not just about technical expertise. It is about setting direction, establishing priorities, leading through others, and helping the team execute at a higher strategic level.

What success looks like

Successful candidates will bring the ability to:

• 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

We are especially interested in candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:

• 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.