Specialist, Software Engineer – IBM ACE & ETL

Nationwide; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Technology is seeking a Specialist Software Engineer to modernize integrations using IBM ACE and Informatica ETL. You will design, build, test, and support enterprise integrations across PolicyCenter, internal apps, downstream platforms and vendors.

You’ll work on real-time messaging, API orchestration, data transformation, and batch processing to improve reliability and developer experience. Strong focus on secure, scalable integrations and observability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, testing, and supporting enterprise integration solutions.
• Proficiency with IBM ACE and Informatica ETL in commercial lines context preferred.
• Ability to design API-led integrations with secure authentication and error handling.

Responsibilities

• Design, enhance, deploy, and support IBM ACE integration flows connecting apps, services, databases, and partners.
• Build message flows using MQ, HTTP, REST, SOAP, Flow Order and other ACE nodes.
• Develop microservices and API-led integrations aligned with enterprise standards.
• Configure MQ nodes and ensure transactionality and correct message delivery behavior.
• Develop and maintain Informatica ETL mappings and workflows across source systems and targets.

Skills

IBM ACE

Informatica ETL

API-led integration

REST & SOAP

Java methods in ESQL

MQ messaging

Data transformation

Microservices

OAuth 2.0

WSDL & API orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

IBM ACE

Informatica ETL

IBM MQ

Apigee

REST

SOAP

Oracle

Java

Job description

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.

Specialist, Software Engineer – IBM ACE & ETL (Integration Specialist)

Build the connections that keep Commercial Lines moving

Nationwide Technology is looking for a technically curious, delivery-focused Specialist Software Engineer to strengthen and modernize the integrations that power Commercial Lines. In this role, you will design, build, test, troubleshoot, and support enterprise integration solutions using Informatica ETL, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), IBM MQ, REST and SOAP services, databases, microservices, and API platforms such as Apigee.

You will work at the intersection of real-time messaging, API orchestration, data transformation, and batch processing. Your work will help move policy transaction data securely and reliably between PolicyCenter, internal applications, downstream platforms, vendors, and regulatory consumers.

This is an opportunity to bring fresh energy to critical integration capabilities while improving reliability, observability, maintainability, and developer experience.

The Integration Layer: ACE and Informatica ETL

ACE and Informatica ETL are complementary capabilities within the Commercial Lines Integration Layer. ACE supports real-time application, messaging, API, and service integration, while Informatica ETL extracts, transforms, and loads data across operational systems, analytical processes, files, vendors, and downstream consumers. This position is designed for an engineer who wants to develop a broad integration skillset by executing work across both disciplines.

You will build expertise in designing dependable data movement patterns end to end: receiving and parsing messages, orchestrating APIs and services, extracting data from source systems, applying business and data‑quality transformations, loading curated outputs, and supporting the operational flow across environments.

What you’ll do

• Design, enhance, deploy, and support IBM ACE integration flows that connect applications, services, databases, and external partners.
• Build message flows using MQ, HTTP, REST, SOAP, Compute, Flow Order, Failure, Catch, and other ACE nodes.
• Implement secure API and service integrations, including OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization, token acquisition, header management, endpoint invocation, response handling, and error processing.
• Develop microservices and API‑led integrations that are scalable, resilient, reusable, and aligned with enterprise integration standards.
• Configure and troubleshoot MQ Input and MQ Output nodes, including transactionality, MQ order properties, MQ transaction mode properties, and message delivery behavior.
• Apply and troubleshoot Compute node mode properties, including Compute mode transaction mode properties, to control message propagation and transaction boundaries.
• Design robust Failure Terminal and Catch Terminal handling patterns for recoverable errors, technical exceptions, business exceptions, retries, alerts, and operational support.
• Analyze message parsing behavior across common formats and configure flows to correctly parse, validate, route, and transform message payloads.
• Apply data mapping and transformation techniques across XML, JSON, copybooks, service payloads, database records, and downstream file layouts.
• Develop ESQL using built‑in ESQL functions, reusable procedures, shared logic, and effective exception‑handling patterns.
• Call Java methods from ESQL when Java‑based capabilities are the right fit for specialized processing, reusable utilities, or integration with existing components.
• Design and troubleshoot SOAP nodes, WSDL‑based services, REST APIs, HTTP nodes, and service orchestration patterns.
• Integrate ACE with Oracle and other data sources through ODBC connectivity, SQL queries, stored procedures, and database‑driven processing.
• Use Global Cache patterns to share and retrieve data across message flows while considering consistency, performance, expiration, and operational behavior.
• Understand and apply the difference between Message ID and Correlation ID when tracing requests, matching responses, supporting asynchronous processing, and diagnosing message flow behavior.
• Apply multiple message propagation concepts to produce, route, and manage more than one output message from a single input message when business scenarios require it.
• Use TRY‑CATCH and Flow Order node scenarios to sequence processing, isolate failures, coordinate parallel or ordered actions, and create predictable recovery paths.
• Develop and maintain integrations through Apigee, including API exposure, policy enforcement, security, traffic management, analytics, and lifecycle support.
• Develop Informatica ETL mappings and workflows that extract data from source systems, transform it using business rules and data‑quality logic, and load it into target tables, files, feeds, and downstream platforms.
• Build and support ETL processes that move policy transaction data through Oracle and other source systems into operational, reporting, financial, vendor, and regulatory outputs.
• Use Informatica transformations, lookups, joins, filters, aggregations, expressions, routers, parameters, reusable mapplets, and workflow controls to produce accurate and traceable data.
• Monitor ETL sessions and workflows, troubleshoot rejected records and data‑quality issues, manage dependencies, and support reruns and recovery with appropriate restart and reconciliation practices.
• Support production incidents, job failures, data issues, message reprocessing, operational reruns, and root‑cause analysis across connected systems.
• Partner with product owners, architects, analysts, testers, application teams, and downstream consumers to deliver dependable solutions.

Technical focus areas

IBM ACE and message flows

• Message parsing, validation, routing, transformation, and propagation
• MQ Input and MQ Output transactionality
• MQ order properties and MQ transaction mode properties
• Compute node mode properties and Compute mode transaction mode properties
• Failure Terminal and Catch Terminal handling
• TRY‑CATCH and Flow Order node scenarios
• Multiple message propagation concepts
• ESQL functions and reusable transformation logic
• Calling Java methods from ESQL
• Global Cache design and usage

Messaging, APIs, and services

• IBM MQ, message identifiers, and correlation patterns
• Difference between Message ID and Correlation ID
• REST APIs, HTTP nodes, SOAP nodes, and service orchestration
• OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization
• Microservices and API‑led connectivity
• Apigee API management, policies, security, and analytics

Integration Layer and Informatica ETL

• ACE and Informatica ETL as complementary components of an enterprise Integration Layer
• Extract, Transform, and Load data using Informatica mappings, workflows, sessions, parameters, and reusable components
• Data mapping across XML, JSON, service payloads, database records, and file layouts
• Informatica transformations, lookups, joins, filters, aggregations, expressions, routers, and data‑quality rules
• ODBC connectivity, Oracle integration, SQL