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
Are looking for an excellent opportunity to join a team of innovative engineers while also developing your skills and fostering your technology career? If yes, we have a Manager, Data Engineering and AI-Ready Data Enablement opportunity just for you!
In this role, you will lead development and operations for one of our Enterprise Data Technology teams, provide technical guidance for data engineering, data platforms, and AI-ready data products enriched with semantics and business context, mentor and guide your team to empowered delivery and growth, and contribute to our ongoing evolution to a Data Driven Culture. You will work closely with IT and business data teams to enable self-service development and consumption of trusted, AI-ready data products. The focus is data engineering and data enablement, rather than machine learning model development or ML engineering.
This role reports to Director - Data Technologies.
This hybrid position may be based out of our Kansas City, Missouri or Southlake (DFW), Texas 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
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The Manager will remain close to the technology, providing engineering guidance, contributing to technical design and architecture decisions, reviewing engineering approaches, and helping solve complex data challenges while leading and developing the team.
- Build and maintain an enterprise data ecosystem including ingestion, storage, organization, and interface, with scalable data engineering pipelines and data platforms that support trusted, AI-ready data products.
- 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 engineering, data platform, and semantic technologies to continuously improve the development and enablement of AI-ready data products.
- Lead the development of AI-ready data products enriched with metadata, business definitions, relationships, and context; build reusable semantic models and contribute to an enterprise semantic layer that supports consistent interpretation across analytics and AI use cases.
- Partner with IT and business data teams to enable self-service development and consumption of AI-ready data products through reusable engineering patterns, semantic modeling guidance, tooling, and hands-on support, while maintaining data quality, governance, and secure access.
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.
- 7+ years of progressive hands-on engineering, implementing data engineering solutions and data platforms (i.e. ETL, ELT, data lakes and cloud data warehouses), and 2+ years of experience leading engineers through people management, technical leadership, or a combination of both.
- Hands-on experience building AI-ready data products by combining data engineering with semantic modeling, metadata, and business context, including experience developing or implementing an enterprise semantic layer.
- Experience partnering with IT and business data teams to enable self-service development of data products through reusable patterns, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- 5+ years of experience using SDLC and Agile.
- 1-3 years of experience with AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Redshift and EMR.
- 3-5 years of demonstrated experience with data movement (EMR, Glue, etc.)
- 5+ years of validated experience in programming languages – Python, Java, Scala, C#.
- 1-3 years of DevOps experience with Git, build, artifact/package management, and deploy automation.
- Able to work in a multi-functional team environment including varied business units, vendors, countries, and cultures.
- Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.
Additional Assets (Preferred)
- Experience in SQL, relational databases and data modeling.
- AWS Certification
- Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud services in AWS ecosystem including EC2, EMR, Glue
- Able to develop business, technical, and application architecture.
- Architecture – Event Driven Design, APIs, Micro services, stateless/chaos.
- Experience with financial product datasets.
- Familiarity with data discovery, analytics, and BI tools such as Tableau.
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 [email protected]. 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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 7+ years of progressive hands-on engineering experience implementing data engineering solutions and data platforms.
- 2+ years of experience leading engineers through people management, technical leadership, or both.
- Experience building AI-ready data products using semantic modeling, metadata, and business context, including an enterprise semantic layer.
- Experience partnering with IT and business data teams to enable self-service development of data products.
- 5+ years of experience using SDLC and Agile.
- 1–3 years of experience with AWS data services, including S3, Glue, Redshift, and EMR.
- 3–5 years of demonstrated experience with data movement technologies such as EMR and Glue.
- 5+ years of validated programming experience with Python, Java, Scala, or C#.
- 1–3 years of DevOps experience with Git, build systems, artifact/package management, and deployment automation.
- Ability to work in a multifunctional team environment across business units, vendors, countries, and cultures.
- Experience with SQL, relational databases, and data modeling.
- AWS Certification.
- Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud services in AWS, including EC2, EMR, and Glue.
- Ability to develop business, technical, and application architecture.
- Experience with event-driven design, APIs, microservices, stateless architecture, or chaos engineering.
- Experience with financial product datasets.
- Familiarity with data discovery, analytics, and business intelligence tools such as Tableau.
American Century Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about American Century Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by American Century Investments.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, vision, HSA contributions, EAP, condition‑specific programs, virtual care, and wellness amenities. Inclusive elements such as gender‑affirming care and a travel benefit for care not locally available are also highlighted.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support features a 401(k) match up to 5% plus an additional annual employer contribution tied to firm performance, alongside company‑paid life/AD&D and disability coverage. A broad menu of voluntary financial protections further bolsters long‑term security.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits include 10 weeks paid parental leave for birth or adoption, backup dependent care, and caregiver leave. Adoption support is emphasized with recognition and up to $10,000 in eligible expense reimbursement.
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What We Do
American Century Investments® is a leading asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve health and save lives. It’s how we help our clients Prosper With Purpose™. Every day people are increasingly focused on investing to make the world a better place for themselves, their families, their organizations, and the world at large. It is possible to live a more meaningful and impactful life and give back something that’s more valuable than money. When you invest with us, you can also invest in the future of others and have the potential to impact the lives of millions. That’s possible because of the distinct relationship with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, which owns more than 40% of American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide the ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer. Together we can become a powerful force for good…it’s like nothing you’ve seen before from an investment management firm.
