IT Data Manager

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

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Role Summary:

In the IT Data Manager role, you will lead development and operations for one of our Enterprise Data teams, and provide technical mentorship for data solutions to support Data Management initiatives, especially in the areas of investment banking master data and data products for reporting. You will also guide your team to empowered delivery and growth and contribute to our ongoing evolution to a Data-Driven Culture.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office. We will provide relocation assistance on an as needed basis.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain an enterprise data ecosystem including ingestion, storage, organization, and interface.
• Analyze the business and technical requirements for data systems and applications; scope, estimate, and schedule project work; coordinate the integration of IT policies, procedures, and development practices.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Research emerging data management technologies around data modeling, data quality, data access, AWS cloud services, and tools related to data management.
• Build and maintain an enterprise data management product, master data for investment banking, data modeling techniques for cloud services, and data quality cloud implementations.
• Provide leadership support for data teams, including mentoring, team building, and coaching.
• Help with project prioritization and ensure timely, incremental releases to meet business objectives.
• Research emerging and innovative ideas for promoting data management activities at the enterprise level.
• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field of study, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience implementing data architecture, data quality/modeling strategies, consolidated reference data, data products for business, ETL, data lake, Redshift, Postgres, and other data stores.
• 5+ years of experience using SDLC and Agile.
• 1-3+ years of experience with AWS services such as S3, Redshift, Postgres, and EMR.
• 3-5+ years of demonstrable experience with data movement (EMR, Glue, etc.)
• Able to work in a multi-functional team environment including multifaceted business units, vendors, countries, and cultures.
• Excellent communication skills to translate complex problems using non-technical terms.
• Candidate must be willing to provide on-call support outside business hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to develop business, technical, and application architecture.
• Experience in dealing with financial product datasets.
• Familiarity with data discovery, analytics, and BI tools such as Tableau.
• Investment Banking institutional knowledge.
• Experience in data architecture, SQL, relational and data warehouse, and data modeling.
• AWS Certification.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud services in the AWS ecosystem.

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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