Knights of Columbus operates a 1.9M-member insurance and fraternal network with $100B+ of life insurance in force. Active modernization of data infrastructure—Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Talend ETL pipelines, predictive analytics—signals a shift toward data-driven underwriting and member retention. Sales-dominant hiring (273 roles) paired with modest engineering capacity (4 headcount) reflects a traditional insurance operating model layering modern analytics onto legacy processes.
Notable leadership hires: Executive Director, Chief Underwriter
Founded in 1882, Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal organization providing financial security through life insurance, annuities, disability income, and long-term care products to members across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The organization maintains over $100B of life insurance in force and has contributed $1.55B to charitable projects and 691M volunteer hours over the past decade. Headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut, with 1,001–5,000 employees across North America and Peru. Core operations span member sales, underwriting, claims, and investment management alongside significant fundraising and community engagement initiatives.
Primary stack: Snowflake (cloud data warehouse), Apache Airflow (ETL orchestration), Talend (data integration), ServiceNow (operations), Microsoft ecosystem (Office, Dynamics 365, Azure). Also uses AuditBoard for compliance, Optimizely CMS, React/Angular for front-end.
Modernizing core data platforms, building ETL/ELT workflows, optimizing cloud data warehouse, developing predictive analytics work products, and creating data visualization dashboards.
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