Data Analyst

Our Firm 

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines. 

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs. 

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs. 

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer. 

For more information, please visit americancentury.com. 

Are you interested in an Analyst role that includes product owner responsibility? Do you have experience working with data sets within the financial services industry? We may have the opportunity you have been waiting for! 

We have a Data Analytics opportunity within our innovative Enterprise Data team. You will play a key role in helping to drive data forward along with strategic objectives. In this role, you will support efforts to use data to enhance productivity and encourage partners throughout the enterprise to adopt and embrace the concepts of data governance, master data, and analytics using an enterprise data platform. Other primary responsibilities are to act in the role of product owner and define and prioritize the product backlog for various investment data domains. 

The Analyst will interact and collaborate with Business leaders, Product Managers and Product Owners in Marketing, Sales and Distribution, along with the development team(s), business users and other partners to understand the vision for the business and reduce risk. You will also own and maintain a product backlog that ultimately seeks to deliver data and business solutions. 

Responsibilities: 

• Work with the Enterprise Data Management and their team, as well as other business leaders on the near and long-term roadmap for two key capabilities within American Century’s data and analytics workstreams:  Data Mastery and Data products  and Self-Service Data Analytics.

• Good understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure (S3, Redshift, RDS). 

• ETL development skills (Glue ETL, Python, Lambda). 

• Ability to extract data from data stores with strong analytical skills. 

• Requirements gathering and translation of the product vision from feature(s) into stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria 

• Data mapping, Modeling and Data Flows skills to help data architects 

• Data testing skills to help team perform in-sprint testing activities.<