About Us
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.
Privately owned and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct 40% of our dividends every year—over $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.
All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.
Role Summary
We are seeking an Architect Advisor for our Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) team. This hands-on architect will play a key role in designing, building, maintaining, and evolving EDL and its supporting data platforms. The role will enable faster, repeatable ingestion into EDL and secure, governed consumption of data from EDL. You will work closely with IT and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, provide technical leadership across architecture and implementation, and support EDL audit processes and entitlement frameworks.
This role reports to Director - Data Technologies.
This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, Missouri office.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.
How You Will Make an Impact
Design, build, maintain, and evolve EDL and supporting data platforms across ingestion, storage, processing, integration, and governed data consumption.
Partner with IT and business stakeholders to understand data needs, translate business and technical requirements into solution designs, and align implementation with enterprise architecture, security, and development standards.
Develop reusable ingestion patterns and automate onboarding, testing, and deployment to accelerate data delivery into EDL while improving scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Design and implement governed data consumption patterns and entitlement frameworks in partnership with security and governance stakeholders, enabling appropriate access to EDL data for business and IT consumers.
Support EDL audit and control processes through architecture and process documentation, access-control evidence, entitlement reviews, and remediation of identified platform control gaps.
Apply AWS DevOps practices to deploy and sustain production data solutions, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational improvements.
Evaluate emerging data technologies and integration frameworks to improve EDL platform capabilities and practices.
Provide technical leadership in an agile environment, helping the team scope, estimate, and plan delivery while guiding architecture and design decisions.
Mentor junior developers by both leading by example and coaching
What You Bring to the Team (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field of study, or equivalent relevant work experience
Ability to translate business requirements into data solution and application architectures, clearly communicate design decisions and trade-offs, and collaborate with IT and business stakeholders.
Strong understanding and hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting production data solutions in AWS, including serverless processing, orchestration, infrastructure…