Consultant, Cybersecurity

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! 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.

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Java Integration and Data Acquisition Engineer

About the role

Nationwide's Cyber Security Operations Center is hiring a hands-on Java engineer to own and extend our existing fleet of integration services that acquire, normalize, and deliver data from complex enterprise and third-party systems. Day one, you'll begin taking over existing projects that execute telemetry and retention pulls from a range of APIs — solving the hard problems that appear beyond a simple REST call: evolving contracts, pagination, throttling, async workflows, GraphQL, Microsoft Graph, gRPC, tricky encodings, and binary data. Over time, the role grows to include Angular backend development — the database access, service orchestration, and secure LLM-powered APIs that support Angular front ends.

This is a backend and integration engineering role for someone who pairs strong modern Java skills with the instincts of a protocol and data-format troubleshooter.

What you'll do

• Own, operate, maintain, and extend a fleet of Java/Spring Boot integration projects running telemetry and retention pulls, in a modern CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability environment.

• Integrate with complex REST, Microsoft Graph, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs, handling auth, pagination, throttling, async workflows, and partial failures.

• Parse and normalize messy JSON, XML, encoded, compressed, and binary payloads — reliably and at scale.

• Build resilient, observable integrations and secure LLM-powered features with proper guardrails.

• Grow into Angular backend-for-frontend development — database access, service orchestration, and secure LLM-powered APIs.

Must-have qualifications

• Advanced Java and strong production experience with Spring Boot and its ecosystem.

• Strong database integration skills — SQL/NoSQL, transactions, schema design, query tuning, and ORM (Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate, JDBC).

• Building and operating containerized Java services through Git-based CI/CD in Kubernetes or comparable orchestration.

• API integration well beyond basic CRUD — auth, pagination, rate limits, retries, and unreliable upstream behavior — including hands-on Microsoft Graph or similarly complex enterprise APIs.

• Working experience consuming or implementing GraphQL, plus gRPC and Protocol BuAers.

• Deep JSON and XML parsing (Jackson, StAX/SAX/JAXB) with secure parser configurations, and byte-level diagnosis of text-encoding and binary-format issues.

• Resilience engineering — timeouts, retries, backoA, circuit breakers, idempotency, and checkpointing — with strong automated testing (JUnit, contract, and adversarial fixtures).

• Experience integrating applications with LLM APIs or SDKs (structured output, streaming, context limits, provider failures).

• Secure development practices and clear communication of protocol and data quality issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Java 25+ and Spring Boot 4.0+; Microsoft Graph delta sync and subscriptions; Angular BFF patterns with SSE or WebSockets.

• AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Vault, GitHub Actions, Harness, Splunk, New Relic, Apigee, and Kafka.

• Enterprise LLM platforms, RAG, embeddings, vector search, or agent workflows.

• Working Python or scripting for prototyping of data inspection and rapid API investigation.

• Experience designing backend APIs for Angular or comparable single-page applications (a growth area for this role).

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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 Cyber Operations professional, you'll be on the front line, protecting Nationwide's members and data! You will be immersed with incident response, cyber strategy and guidance, defense optimization and scanning and exploitation. We'll count on you to provide enterprise services in forensic investigation, attack and penetration, vulnerability scanning and response, cyber defense, security intelligence, security operations and infrastructure risk management.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads or responds to complex cyber incidents using industry recognized methodology, e.g., PICERL (Preparation, Identification, Containment, Eradication, Recovery and Lessons Learned).

• Creates uplift of cyber security detection and alerts for ongoing prevention of threats.

• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Uses an efficiency mindset for incident response to design and implement automation and orchestration for the enrichment and handling of cyber security events.

• Manages and supports vulnerability management via tools, processes, and proactively identifies vulnerabilities in the environment.

• Plans and conducts team activities to enrich detection and prevention controls.

• Plans and delivers proactive cyber activities (purple teaming, threat hunting, red teaming, etc.) with full understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

• Identifies critical log sources and system events used for creation and tuning of cyber security detections.

• Maintains awareness of current cyber threat landscape to perform evaluation, enrichment and dissemination for action to protect Nationwide members and environment.

• Leads and works on initiatives as part of the overall cyber operations strategy.

• Additional responsibilities may include collaboration across teams and adherence to company standards.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience:

Education:

Undergraduate studies in cyber security, management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred. Graduate studies in cyber security, computer science or a related field are a plus. Preferred certifications include: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Certified Intrusion Handler (GCIH), Digital Forensics Investigation: EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) certification, GIAC Strategic Planning Policy and Leadership (GSTRT), GIAC Security Expert (GSE), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AZ500.

Experience:

Typically, 12 years of experience in technology, with four years in cyber security. Experience using Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems, administration and tools. Successful candidates will also have experience with network configurations, protocols, scripting, web application security, network security, firewalls and network topology from both physical and logical viewpoints, scripting in PowerShell, Python, Bash and Windows Batch.

Technical Skills:

• Cloud Security

• Cybersecurity

• Cyber Threat Intelligence

• Incident Management

• Intrusion Detection

• MITRE ATT&CK Framework

• Network Security

• Vulnerability Management

Soft Skills & Attributes:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

• Ability to work in agile and global environments

• Time management and prioritization

• Ability to make decisions, recommendations and manage work processes. Aptitude to influence, build partnerships and set priorities. Excellent communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors. Insurance and/or financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Additional Information:

Reporting Structure:

Reports to Leader – India

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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