Architect Advisor

American Century Investments • Kansas City, MO

20d • Hybrid

About The Position

American Century Investments is seeking a hands-on Architect Advisor for its Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) team. The role designs, builds, maintains, and evolves EDL and its supporting data platforms, enabling repeatable data ingestion and secure, governed data consumption. The Architect Advisor works with IT and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, provides technical leadership across architecture and implementation, and supports EDL audit processes and entitlement frameworks.

This position reports to the Director - Data Technologies and is hybrid, based out of the Kansas City, Missouri office. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Employees are required to work in the office at a scheduled frequency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data solution and application architectures, 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 experience with object-oriented or functional programming languages, including hands-on Python development; Java experience is also relevant.
• 5+ years of 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 experience with ESB, messaging, or integration tools such as Kafka or SQS.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor in a multifunctional collaborative team environment involving varied business units, vendors, countries, and cultures.
• Demonstrates American Century Investments’ Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, and Competitively Driven.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in data modeling, schema design and development, and dimensional modeling.
• AWS certification.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud services in the AWS ecosystem, including EC2, Kinesis, ECS, and ELB.
• Experience designing, building, or consuming data APIs for secure data ingestion, integration, or governed consumption; familiarity with event-driven architecture and microservices.
• Experience with advanced analytics tools and languages such as R, Python, Java, or SAS.
• Test automation design and implementation experience.
• Experience with ETL tools such as IDMC, TSQL, SSIS, or Matillion.
• 1+ years of data visualization experience with tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience working with financial product datasets.
• Experience supporting audit evidence, access reviews, and control processes in a regulated or audited technology environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and evolve EDL and supporting data platforms across ingestion, storage, processing, integration, and governed data consumption.
• Work with IT and business stakeholders to understand data needs, translate 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 improve data delivery, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Design and implement governed data consumption patterns and entitlement frameworks with security and governance stakeholders.
• Support EDL audit and control processes through architecture and process documentation, access-control evidence, entitlement reviews, and remediation of platform control gaps.
• Use 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 capabilities and practices.
• Provide technical leadership in an agile environment, contributing to scoping, estimation, planning, and architecture and design decisions.
• Mentor junior developers through example and coaching.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan.
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits.
• 401(k) with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Formal mentorship program.
• Live and online learning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior