Life insurance and annuity provider modernizing legacy operations with cloud and automation
National Life Group is a 176-year-old insurance and financial services company running a sprawling tech estate across mainframe, SQL Server, Salesforce, Databricks, and Tableau. The hiring mix—finance and sales dominate, engineering and data are thin—combined with active projects in product modernization, RPA adoption, and security control refinement, suggests the company is automating manual workflows and migrating legacy data infrastructure to cloud while maintaining compliance in a regulated industry.
Notable leadership hires: Product Initiative Lead, Chief Compliance Officer, Tech Lead, Application Technical Lead, Chief Technology Officer
National Life Group provides life insurance, annuities, and investment products to millions of customers. Headquartered in Montpelier, VT, the company operates through multiple insurance entities and a broker-dealer subsidiary. With 1,001–5,000 employees and 174 open roles, the organization is actively hiring across finance, sales, and operations. Key operational challenges include improving underwriting efficiency, managing dormant agency networks, growing the new business pipeline, and modernizing product and technology infrastructure while navigating interest rate risk and regulatory compliance.
National Life uses Alteryx, Tableau, Databricks, Power BI, SQL Server, Mainframe, Salesforce, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, and Microsoft 365. They are adopting RPA and investing in cloud data migration.
Active projects include product modernization and innovation, monthly underwriting rulebook releases, integrating quality metrics into KPIs, developing insurance-optimized strategies, and refining security controls. The company is also piloting emerging technologies and executing residential mortgage investment strategies.
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