Director of Modern Infrastructure and Enterprise Platform Development

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 theres an unexpected side to us too. We direct over 40% of our profits every yearmore than $2 billion since 2000to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institutes breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimers. So the better we do for our clients the more we can do for everyone.

All 1400 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 youre excited to learn more about us we cant 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 Bachelors 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 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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