Senior Technical Director - Nationwide Financial Actuarial - Remote

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 - RemoteActuarial Technology Strategy | Data Strategy | Snowflake | Databricks | AI | Insurance | Financial ServicesIf 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 doThis 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 likeSuccessful candidates will bring the ability to:Set clear priorities and strategic direction for a technical team supporting the Actuarial organizationLead complex cross-functional initiatives involving actuarial, data, systems, and IT partnersAdvance enterprise data platform and actuarial technology modernization efforts, including Snowflake and Databricks-related workTranslate complex technical and actuarial topics into practical business recommendationsInfluence stakeholders, drive change, and improve execution across teamsIdeal backgroundWe are especially interested in candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:Financial Services technologyFinancial modelingData strategyInsurance or financial services technologyData platform modernizationSnowflake, SQL, or Databricks environmentsCross-functional partnership with ITStrategic planning, business model innovation, and operational excellenceWhy this role stands outThis 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.Job Description SummaryOur Nationwide Financial Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you! As a Senior Technical Director, you’ll show a mastery of business operations, systems and actuarial methodologies. You will provide leadership, direction and oversight for the performance of sophisticated actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. In addition, you’ll develop a strategic vision to ensure efficient, consistent and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to set strategy and business recommendations that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers.Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities:Works with various pricing teams to develop solutions that enhance returns and/or mitigate risk. Support may occur through a variety of means including building/running models, peer reviews, reasonable checks and various types of analysis. Assists with evaluation of a product design to inform business and risk management leadership of the expected profitability and most significant risks associated with new product concepts. Provides expert knowledge of pricing assumption-setting, model building, actuarial analysis, product mechanics and embedded policy owner options, valuation and non-forfeiture law.Provides analysis and development of pricing guidelines, evaluation of profitability targets, risk measures, and other pricing metrics (such as capital usage). Coordinates Product Risk Committee (PRC) meetings, distributes m