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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 40% of our dividends every yearover $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

Are you a Data Governance Analyst passionate about making unstructured data trusted compliant and AIready In this role youll partner with business and technology teams to lead enterprisewide governance efforts that enable unstructured content to be safely leveraged for business operations analytics and AI.

Youll join our Enterprise Data Governance team and help design scale and enforce governance programs with a strong focus on unstructured metadata management information lifecycle management records and retention security standards cataloging and stewardship enablement. Youll work closely with structured data teams where needed to ensure consistent endtoend governance.

Success in this role requires the ability to execute the data governance operating model leverage governance tools to automate controls and solve real business challenges such as content sprawl data discoverability sensitivity labeling retention and disposition legal hold and regulatory compliance across unstructured data (e.g. documents emails chat content PDFs presentations and images). Youll influence stakeholders translate governance concepts for business audiences and design scalable solutions that stand up in complex fastmoving environments.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City MO 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

Data Governance & Unstructured Data Enablement

• Execute the firms data governance operating model by partnering with business and technology teams to implement enterprise policies and standards across unstructured data (primary focus) and structured data (secondary) including data used for AI and advanced analytics.

• Lead and monitor the rollout of unstructured data governance practices across key content repositories (e.g. SharePoint/Teams file shares and cloud content platforms) ensuring metadata quality accurate classification and sensitivity labeling retention readiness and AI fitness.

• Ensure unstructured data complies with regulatory legal privacy and recordsmanagement requirements throughout the information lifecycle.

• Provide governance oversight of Data Domain teams including review of data maps content inventories metadata documentation data quality issues access and security controls SLAs and audit retention and legalhold readiness.

• Partner with Data Owners Data Stewards and technology teams to design workflows dashboards and automation for unstructured data classification metadata generation retention controls access governance and eDiscovery readiness.

• Support governance enablement through training by partnering with HR Learning & Development to curate and deliver Data Governance Data Stewardship and toolspecific education.

• Serve as a Collibra administrator driving platform adoption training users and promoting consistent effective use of governance tooling.

• Collaborate with governance technology vendors on roadmap enhancements related to unstructured metadata classification lineage and policy enforcement.

• Manage internal data products including unstructured content repositories and AIready metadata assets (e.g. taxonomies labels ownership and classification outputs) coordinating with structured data teams when shared reference data is required.

Unstructured Data & AIReady Enablement

• Partner with data platform and cloud engineering teams to define governance guardrails for AWSbased processes that automatically extract enrich and register unstructured metadata to support AIready data.

• Ensure governance standards for classification lineage retention and access controls are embedded into automated unstructured metadata pipelines by design.

• Enable trusted use of unstructured data in AI analytics and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) solutions by ensuring data is discoverable governed and approved through appropriate stewardship workflows.

• Collaborate with AI analytics and data product teams to align unstructured data governance with AI intake risk assessment and inventory processes ensuring clear traceability between data assets use cases and controls.

• Translate AIready data requirements into scalable repeatable governance patterns that can be consistently applied across domains and development teams.

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.

• 3 years of experience in data governance data management or data operations including handson governance of unstructured content (e.g. classification tagging retention and access controls).

• Experience governing unstructured metadata and content controls (e.g. sensitivity labels classification tagging retention schedules) with the ability to align to structured metadata standards as needed.

• Experience using data governance or cataloging tools (e.g. Collibra Informatica IBM IGC) for content inventory data mapping metadata management and traceability.

• Experience partnering with cloud and data platform teams to operationalize automated unstructured metadata generation or enrichment processes (handson engineering not required).

• Familiarity with AIready data concepts including governance of unstructured data used in AI search and RAGbased solutions.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex data governance concepts for both business and technical audiences.

• Proven problem solver with an analytical methodical approach and comfort operating in dynamic fastpaced and ambiguous environments.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Familiarity with data security and data protection principles.

• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused Courageous and Accountable Collaborative Curious and Adaptable Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Experience governing unstructured data in platforms such as SharePoint Teams file shares or cloud content repositories.

• Experience with information lifecycle management records management and legal hold processes.

• Background in policy and standards development for data classification and retention.

• Experience in financial services or asset management environments.

• Familiarity with cloud technologies and automation supporting unstructured data governance.

• Project Management Agile or Six Sigma skills are a plus.

• Experience with Python and SQL a plus.

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.

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