Architect Advisor

American Century Investments; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with bonus

Generous PTO & benefits

401k with company match

Tuition reimbursement & mentorship

Job summary

American Century Investments seeks an Architect Advisor for its Enterprise Data Lake team. This hands-on architect will design, build, and evolve EDL and data platforms, enabling fast ingestion and secure consumption of data. You will collaborate with IT and business stakeholders, provide technical leadership, and support audit and entitlement frameworks.

The role reports to Director - Data Technologies and is hybrid based in Kansas City, MO. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience designing production data solutions in AWS.
• Hands-on AWS DevOps with CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and security.
• Knowledge of governed data access, IAM, entitlements, encryption, audit logging.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve Enterprise Data Lake and data platforms.
• Translate business needs into scalable data solutions aligned with security and governance.
• Develop reusable ingestion patterns and automate onboarding, testing, and deployment.
• Implement governed data access and entitlement patterns with security teams.
• Support audit and control processes with architecture documentation and evidence.
• Apply AWS DevOps practices for production data solutions including IaC, CI/CD, monitoring.

Skills

AWS architecture

Data lake design

Python

Java

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform / CloudFormation

IAM & entitlements

SDLC / Agile

ETL / ELT

SQL (MySQL/Postgres/MSSQL)

Kafka / SQS

Security & compliance

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

S3

Lambda

EMR

KMS

Git

Job description

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 as code, monitoring, and information security.
• Hands‑on AWS DevOps experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, build and artifact/package management, automated testing and deployment, and infrastructure as code using tools such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Understanding of governed data access, IAM and role‑based entitlements, least‑privilege principles, encryption, and audit logging for cloud data platforms.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in object‑oriented or functional programming languages, including hands‑on Python development; Java experience is also relevant.
• 5+ years of proven experience with AWS services used in data solutions, such as CloudFormation, S3, Lambda, IAM, EMR, and KMS.
• 7+ years of hands‑on engineering experience implementing and supporting data ingestion and transformation pipelines using ETL/ELT and data lake or operational data store patterns.
• 5+ years of experience using SDLC and Agile.
• 5+ years of experience with RDBMS Technologies such as MySQL, Postgres, and MSSQL.
• 5+ years of ESB/Messaging/Integration tools such as Kafka or SQS.
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring in a multi‑functional collaborative 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 data modeling, schema design/development, and dimensional modeling.
• AWS Certification.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud services in AWS ecosystem including EC2, Kinesis, ECS, ELB.
• Experience designing, building, or consuming data APIs to enable secure data ingestion, integration, or governed consumption is a plus; familiarity with event‑driven architecture and microservices is also desirable.
• Experience with advanced analytics tools such as R, Python, Java, SAS, and others.
• Test automation design and implementation experience.
• Experience with ETL tools such as IDMC, TSQL, SSIS, or Matillion.
• 1+ years of data visualization with tools such as Tableau, or PowerBI.
• Experience in working with financial product datasets.
• Experience supporting audit evidence, access reviews, and control processes in a regulated or audited technology environment.

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 [e-mail]. 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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