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Charity is at the core of our missions: our profits are donated to help those in need and to support our faith - $1.73B over the past ten years.\nWhile we have many employees who are not Catholic, we follow the Church’s teachings in our investment strategies and our employee benefits. As part of our religious mission, we support the pro-life cause by contributing to the March for Life and pregnancy resource centers, we oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, we are evangelists for the Catholic faith, and we help Christians who are facing religious persecution in the Middle East. We all work together to support our two million members as they volunteer to help others in their parishes and communities around the world.\nShare Your Talent. Live Your Purpose.\nWe are a growing and purpose-driven community of professionals. Join us to discover how you can meet your goals and ours!\n#LI-Remote\nOverview\nThe 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. This is a senior level individual contributor role who will be responsible for operating as a domain authority and trusted technical partner driving outcomes through influence, collaboration, and deep expertise.\nReporting directly to the Director of Applied AI & Data Science, this role partners closely with business leaders, data analysts, data movement engineers, infrastructure teams, and peer architects to translate business needs into architectures that are secure, governed, and built to scale. The Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect plays a critical role in continuing to modernize the Knights of Columbus’ data landscape including bridging legacy mainframe and DB2 platforms with a cloud and AIenabled ecosystem that includes Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Talend, Microsoft Copilot, Snowflake Cortex, and enterprise large language models. This foundation is essential to enabling Deep Research LLM and agentic AI capabilities across the organization.\nCore Responsibilities\nDefine and govern enterprise Data & AI architecture across legacy, cloud, and AI-native platforms\nArchitect hybrid data integration across mainframe, DB2, Snowflake, Postgres, Talend, and event streaming\nDesign and deliver LLM and agentic AI solutions using Snowflake Cortex, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Copilot Studio, and orchestration frameworks\nEstablish RAG, vector database, and embedding strategies for enterprise research and analytics\nCoordinate the continual modernization of ETL and Lakehouse architecture\nEnable Snowflake governance: RBAC, dynamic masking, row-level security, encryption\nEnsure compliance with OSFI, SOX, NAIC, PIPEDA/GDPR, SEC/state insurance regulations\nPartner with business, risk, compliance, legal, IT, Information Security and vendors as the lead technical advisor\nSkills Qualifications\nRequired :\n3+ years hands-on Snowflake experience (Snowpark, Cortex, data sharing)\n3+ years delivering production LLM / GenAI solutions (RAG, agents, fine-tuning)\nProven legacy-to-cloud migration experience involving IBM DB2 or equivalent\nExperience with Talend, modern data integration, and real-time ingestion\nKnowledge of relational (e.g., PostgreSQL), NoSQL, NewSQL, and vector/LLM databases\nDemonstrated experience with legacy-to-cloud data migration involving IBM DB2 or equivalent mainframe/relational systems\nProven delivery of agentic AI systems or multi-model orchestration pipelines in enterprise environments\nEducation\nRequired: \n12+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise architecture\n5+ years in financial services (life insurance, annuities, investments preferred)\nCompensation\nThe 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. 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