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 controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $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 1,400 of us across 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

The Director of Modern Infrastructure and Enterprise Platform Development leads the strategic direction, implementation, rollout and enablement of shared technology and platforms at ACI including Cloud. Reporting in to the VP of Information Technology, you will lead a team that builds an industry leading, state of the art technology platform at ACI. You will play an integral leadership role in strategic decision making in partnership with stakeholders across the company to build and deliver on an exciting roadmap that includes enterprise-wide adoption of the next generation of Cloud, ML/AI, API, Agile/DevOps, Quality, and other platforms and tools.

Are you passionate about growing and developing teams? Ability to attract, motivate, retain, and develop a team is necessary to be successful in this role. You will possess excellent business and interpersonal skills and support business partners in prioritizing work across teams to support large programs and initiatives. The ideal person for this role is deeply technical, inquisitive, authentic, optimistic, and transparent

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

Provide vision, develop the roadmap, strategy and leadership for the successful execution of all platform engineering initiatives, and our continued transition to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Own the strategy, architecture, planning and provision of compute, storage, network and core infrastructure for public and private cloud
Ensure delivery of on-time team initiatives and develop/track/maintain budget to ensure commitments to other teams, and the firm as a whole
Improve the predictability, efficiency, and transparency of platforms for stakeholders
Ensure the operational stability, performance, and security of the shared platforms.
Ensure clear direction, proactive communication, develop and maintain healthy collaboration between all groups (external and 3rd party vendors) involved with Platform Engineering initiatives to provide a complete, integrated technology platform for the firm
Work closely with the software development team focusing on rendering strategy, pipeline infrastructure and internal software deployment process and strategies.
Work with Finance to plan, budget and track costs for elastic infrastructure used by shared platforms from cloud service providers.

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

A Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems, or related field.
A minimum of 10 years application development and support experience with at least three years in an executive leadership or managerial capacity.
Expertise with building technology systems in the Cloud, with APIs & innovative technology platforms
Experience building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships.
Experience using Agile Methodologies.
Demonstrate high level of proficiency in the following competency areas: AWS Platform & Services, API/Microservices, Enterprise Applications & Platforms, Agile Methodologies, Accountability (for self and others), Result Orientation, Personal Leadership, Business Adeptness, Client Orientation, Project/Program Management, Teamwork, and Technical Leadership.
Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

Experience working with AWS Cloud native solutions and hybrid cloud solutions
Experience working with Python, Java or Scala programming languages
Experience working in a Financial Services firm, specifically Asset Management
Experience leading AI/ML, Data, API, and UI platform development

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
Generous PTO and competitive benefits
401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

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.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

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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