Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect

Overview

The Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect is a strategic, hands-on technical expert responsible for designing and delivering enterprise data and artificial intelligence solutions across the Knights of Columbus' core business lines of Life Insurance, Investments, Membership, and Charities.

Core Responsibilities

• Define and govern enterprise Data & AI architecture across legacy, cloud, and AI-native platforms
• Arcitect hybrid data integration across mainframe, DB2, Snowflake, Postgres, Talend, and event streaming
• Design and deliver LLM and agentic AI solutions using Snowflake Cortex, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Copilot Studio, and orchestration frameworks
• Establish RAG, vector database, and embedding strategies for enterprise research and analytics
• Cooordinate the continual modernization of ETL and Lakehouse architecture
• Enable Snowflake governance: RBAC, dynamic masking, row-level security, encryption
• Ensure compliance with OSFI, SOX, NAIC, PIPEDA/GDPR, SEC/state insurance regulations
• Partner with business, risk, compliance, legal, IT, Information Security and vendors as the lead technical advisor

Skills Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on Snowflake experience (Snowpark, Cortex, data sharing)
• 3+ years delivering production LLM / GenAI solutions (RAG, agents, fine-tuning)
• Proven legacy-to-cloud migration experience involving IBM DB2 or equivalent
• Experience with Talend, modern data integration, and real-time ingestion
• Demonstrated experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL), NoSQL, NewSQL, and vector/LLM databases
• Proven delivery of agentic AI systems or multi-model orchestration pipelines in enterprise environments

Education Qualifications

• 12+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise architecture
• 5+ years in financial services (life insurance, annuities, investments preferred)

Compensation

The wage range for this role takes into account a broad array of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The range below applies as long as the work is performed in Connecticut; the Knights of Columbus reserves the right to adjust the wage range if the position is performed in another location. At the Knights of Columbus, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $153,000 - $260,000.

Physical Demands

Must be able to remain in a stationary position for a majority of the workday.