Sr Data Scientist

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.

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The Sr. Data Scientist on the Client Insights and Analysis Team will serve as a primary insights provider for the Wealth Management business channel. The primary responsibility of the Sr. Data Scientist on the Client Insights and Analysis Team is to work with business decision-makers to identify business issues and objectives, explore data mining and model building opportunities, build statistical models, present analytical results and models, and provide actionable insights. The Sr. Data Scientist on the Client Insights and Analysis Team will act as a senior member of the team who will assist his/her manager in exploring analytical opportunities, consulting on analytical work of the team and being a coach for other team members. Strong entrepreneurial spirit, interpersonal skills, consultation skills, client management skills, and analytical skills are key to the success for the Sr. Data Scientist role on the Client Insights and Analysis team.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Actively participate in client-based cross-functional teams: represent data science profession on client-based cross-functional teams; identify business issues and resulting research needs; participate in client team project planning; fulfill identified team responsibilities: (10%)

Consult with decision-makers to identify business objectives, data sources and analytical methodology: work independently or with other analysts to identify and define business issues and goals, convert them into appropriate analytical objectives and strategies. Will explore and understand all internal data sources and will have a clear understanding of methodology behind the analysis and model building: (30%)

Provide research design and analysis, engage in data science and model building: based on identified needs, analyze database information or 3rd party data sources in response to data analysis requests. Identify and implement appropriate design and analysis, explore data sources to uncover useful information to help business clients in their decision making. Primarily will use Python and the AWS tech stack (Athena, Sagemaker, Glue, Redshift, etc.) as well as a variety of other data and analysis software. Activities include, but are not limited to: (50%)

• Create research design, measurement for clients in business execution
• Provide analysis reports and give proper interpretation to clients
• Build models to meet clients' objective using available data sources
• Report analytical results and recommendations to business clients
• Provide support for Client Insights and Analysis team; consult on data science and model building issues
• Help team development, be a coach for other analysts
• Act as single point of contact for business partner and address their needs with minimal guidance from manager
• Responsible for training and maintaining scoring mechanisms that drive our Next Best Action/Lead Management programs including Client Engagement, Interest and Lifetime Value Scoring
• Act as data steward for critical Distribution data sets such as those provided by key firm partners

Administrative: participate in professional development: (10%)

Required Skills:

• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Ability to analy