Architect Advisor

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

At American Century Investments, we’re hiring a highly hardworking and technical Architect Advisor to help accelerate our cloud migration, automation, and AI-enabled platform strategy. This is an excellent opportunity to join a team of enterprise architects while also developing your skills across cloud, data, automation, and artificial intelligence capabilities that support enterprise innovation.

This role reports to Director, Enterprise Architecture.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, Missouri location.

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

• Partner with application teams across the organization to deliver strategic consulting on cloud migration, platform modernization, and the responsible adoption of AI-enabled solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders enterprise-wide to identify, design, and implement scalable infrastructure and platform services.
• Enable access to cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that support business and technology objectives.
• Drive the adoption of AI and automation capabilities, helping teams improve efficiency, innovation, and operational effectiveness.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements to recommend and deliver the right cloud and platform solutions.
• Influence platform and product roadmap priorities by finding opportunities for feature enhancements and innovation based on evolving solution needs.
• Foster cross-functional partnerships to accelerate technology transformation and maximize the value of cloud and AI investments.

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years technical experience.
• 3+ years’ experience in administering SaaS Based products
• Diverse variety of technical and operational interests and capabilities, including Java, Microsoft, databases, virtualization, monitoring, automation technologies
• Extensive experience with public cloud providers: AWS, Azure, Google, etc.
• Experience with AI/ML or generative AI capabilities in enterprise environments, including cloud AI services, model integration, prompt-driven solutions, AI assistants, or responsible AI governance
• Expert knowledge of DNS, Load Balancing, DB Clustering, and High Availability as it relates to all tiers of architecture
• Proven background in scripting and development: Python, Node.js
• Ability to assess AI use cases, translate business needs into technical solution patterns, and communicate AI architecture considerations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with automated deployment technologies
• Experience with infrastructure as code, container management and deployment
• Ability to work in high stress environment with both tactical and strategic deliveries
• The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, task driven, and have superb communication skills
• Works effectively with others in and outside the organization to accomplish goals, objectives and to identify and resolve problems
• Craft solution collateral including solution documents, develop level of effort estimates, risk assessment
• Work cohesively with other technology practices to provide seamless multi-disciplinary services integration for application reams
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Experience in design and development of system architecture for the IaaS and PaaS platform
• Develop automation tools to optimize infrastructure management including provisioning, update, backup, failover and disaster recovery
• Evaluate and implement cloud technologies and capabilities to increase service availability, improve performance, and optimize cost
• Evaluate and implement AI-enabled technologies, including machine learning, generative AI, intelligent automation, and cloud-native AI services, to improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, and developer productivity
• Build and implement standards on configuration management, system and application infrastructure, security, and performance monitoring
• Effectively communicate design concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Document system architectures, systems configurations, and technical operational processes and policies
• Collaborate with data, security, architecture, and application teams to define AI solution patterns, governance guardrails, integration approaches, and operational support models
• Solve complex operation and performance issues
• Experience with AWS in production environments with complex infrastructure requirements
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, CloudFormation
• Strong scripting skills, i.e., Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling

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 HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. 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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