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Must‑Have Technical Skills
GitHub & GitHub Actions: In‑depth, hands‑on experience with repository management, branching strategies, CI workflows, and pipeline troubleshooting.
Harness (CI/CD): Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, managing deployment strategies, and supporting release orchestration.
JFrog Platform (Artifactory, Xray): Proven expertise in artifact management, repository configuration, security scanning, and CI/CD integrations.
Kubernetes & Linux: Practical experience supporting containerized applications and Linux-based environments, including:
System administration and troubleshooting
Performance, permissions, and networking
Operational stability and reliability
Basic Knowledge in AWS Cloud services like IAM, S3, Workspaces, Cloud Watch etc.
Linux concepts and command knowledge
Build and manage containers
Understanding of containerized workloads
Kubernetes triaging and deployment
Programming & Scripting Languages: Working knowledge of:
Python
TypeScript
Java
Technical Leadership & Guidance: Ability to guide development teams, review solutions at a high level, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices, even when not writing code on a daily basis.
Nice to have Technical Skills
Jenkins: Hands-on experience configuring pipelines, maintaining jobs, and integrating Jenkins with modern CI/CD ecosystems.
Multi‑Platform CI/CD Environments: Familiarity with organizations operating or transitioning across multiple CI/CD and deployment platforms.
Monitoring, Logging & Observability
New relic, Grafana and Splunk usage and understanding
Monitor system health and performance
Security & Compliance: Managing secrets/passwords/Certificates/Access Controls for tools
Release & Deployment Management: Understanding of Release & Deployment Management and strategies
System Reliability & Troubleshooting
Handle production incidents
Perform root cause analysis (RCA)
Improve system resilience and uptime
Participating in on call rotations
Soft skills
Continuous Learning: Demonstrates curiosity and adaptability as tools, platforms, and best practices evolve.
Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance for engineers and stakeholders. Communicates clearly, respectfully, and thoughtfully across time zones and cultures.
Technical Aptitude & Critical Thinking: Shows strong curiosity and a willingness to continuously learn new technologies, tools, and processes.
Ownership: Demonstrates strong sense of ownership and the pride of supporting our internal customers.
Collaboration & Attitude
Willing and eager to collaborate closely with core (onshore and offshore) team members to achieve shared goals.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, asking clarifying questions, and articulating risks and solutions constructively.
Actively shares knowledge with developers and supports their growth through mentoring and guidance.
Displays strong positive and go getter attitude to solve complex issues even when the solution is not obvious.
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Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!As a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for a suite of in house or third-party applications. You'll lead teams of technology professionals to enable business outcomes and provide dependable customer-centric solutions and experiences.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Partners with leaders to ensure a viable total cost of ownership and ongoing health and wellness of applications.
Assists in the development and implementation of application suite roadmaps through the evaluation of business needs, competitive landscape, technology currency and information security considerations.
Manages risk mitigation controls and provides support for internal and external audits.
Supports the engineering build of the application suite and non-technical efforts for the products.
Represents voice of the customer, acts in a forward-facing role to business partners as an active member of a portfolio management team in the advocation of business case development, planning, financial management and evaluation of portfolio.
Hire and develop talent, provide consistent coaching and feedback.
Responsible for delivery availability and resiliency following established operating
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications & Experience:
Education:
Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics, or related field is strongly preferred.
Experience:
Six years of experience in application suite management with four years or more leading numerous teams across multiple technologies. Proven experience/understanding of concepts and techniques in project delivery, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis. Detailed understanding and knowledge of the systems development life cycle and modern methodologies, practices, tools, and techniques.
Technical Skills:
Business Acumen
CI/CD
Cloud Computing
Financial Management
Performance Management
Systems Development Life Cycle
Technology Solutions
Vendor Management
Soft Skills & Attributes:
Ability to develop and implement roadmap strategies
Coaching and career development of team
Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships
Persuasive communication and collaboration skills
Ability to work in agile and global environments
Firsthand technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript
Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Additional Information:
Reporting Structure:
Reports to Technology Director – India or above
Working Hours:
Aligned to India business hours with flexibility for global collaboration.
Location Flexibility:
[Hybrid/Remote/In-office] with periodic in-office collaboration.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nationwide is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, disability, religion, or other protected categories.
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