What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect Principal position at CM003 American Century Services, LLC?
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.
At American Century Investments, we’re on the lookout for a dynamic and innovative Enterprise Architect Principal to lead our transformative technology initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking team of technologists, where you'll play a pivotal role in driving our digital transformation. Elevate your skills, expand your career, and be part of a journey that’s shaping the future of technology at our company!
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in designing and developing system architectures for scalable and reusable platforms
- Evaluate and implement technologies and capabilities to enhance service availability, performance, and cost optimization
- Establish and enforce standards for configuration management, system and application infrastructure, security, and performance monitoring
- Effectively communicate design concepts and transformation strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Document system architectures, configurations, and technical operational processes and policies with a focus on reusability
- Solve complex operational and performance issues with innovative solutions
- Experience with AWS in production environments with complex infrastructure requirements, emphasizing API integration and platform services
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, and CloudFormation for building robust platforms
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.) for automation and integration
- Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling to support platform scalability and security
Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Additional Requirements:
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.
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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