IT Director - Data Management
American Century Investments
New York, New York
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December 12, 2022
American Century Investments
New York, New York
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.
The IT Director Data Management leads the Data & Analytics organization and helps drive the strategic direction of the team. You will build industry-leading, pioneering Big Data & AI capabilities. You will play an integral leadership role in strategic decision-making in partnership with peers in Business and Technology to build and deliver on a transformational Data, Analytics & AI roadmap. Ability to attract, motivate, retain, and develop a team is vital to be successful in this role. You will possess excellent business and communication skills and support business partners in prioritizing work across teams to support large programs and initiatives. You are deeply technical, inquisitive, authentic, optimistic, and transparent. You are passionate about growing and developing teams and excited to promote a data culture that is driven by insights.
Responsibilities:
Consistently demonstrate high level of proficiency in the following competency areas: Technology (Big Data, Cloud, AI/ML, Digital), Data Management and Governance, Metadata management, data cataloging, Business Intelligence, Data architecture and modeling, Agile Methodologies, Change Advocate, Communication & Understanding, Accountability (for self and others), Result Orientation, Personal Leadership, Business Savvy, Client Orientation, Project/Program Management, Teamwork, Developing People and Technical Leadership.
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Required:
Additional Requirements:
As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace. Based on work location, you may be required to submit proof of having received the final dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine prior to the position start date unless you have obtained a reasonable accommodation.
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.
�2019 American Century Proprietary Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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.
The IT Director Data Management leads the Data & Analytics organization and helps drive the strategic direction of the team. You will build industry-leading, pioneering Big Data & AI capabilities. You will play an integral leadership role in strategic decision-making in partnership with peers in Business and Technology to build and deliver on a transformational Data, Analytics & AI roadmap. Ability to attract, motivate, retain, and develop a team is vital to be successful in this role. You will possess excellent business and communication skills and support business partners in prioritizing work across teams to support large programs and initiatives. You are deeply technical, inquisitive, authentic, optimistic, and transparent. You are passionate about growing and developing teams and excited to promote a data culture that is driven by insights.
Responsibilities:
- Project delivery including but not limited to: Data management, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Business Intelligence, Agile Planning and scheduling of projects, and Staffing requirements
- Leading performance, quality, budget, organization and standards of the group
- Consulting and guiding business partners on the art of the possible help build a roadmap of projects, opportunities, and problems that technology can help solve efficiently
- Participating in enterprise prioritization process to understand business needs and driving to consensus for allocation of resources to complete the work
- Preparing and implementing departmental goals and objectives and assisting in the development of the IT department budget
- Continuously improving the productivity, cost-effectiveness and quality of the department
- Providing leadership and management support for developers and managers, including mentoring, team building, setting expectations & performance appraisals, salary administration and staff development
Consistently demonstrate high level of proficiency in the following competency areas: Technology (Big Data, Cloud, AI/ML, Digital), Data Management and Governance, Metadata management, data cataloging, Business Intelligence, Data architecture and modeling, Agile Methodologies, Change Advocate, Communication & Understanding, Accountability (for self and others), Result Orientation, Personal Leadership, Business Savvy, Client Orientation, Project/Program Management, Teamwork, Developing People and Technical Leadership.
Distinguishing Characteristics:
- A proven track record of career progression and success
- Superior interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization in both verbal and written form
- Willingness to continue to learn new technologies and to become an authority in all aspects of the business areas supported
- A desire to lead and build an impactful Technology team
- Highly motivated self-starter
- Strategic and creative thinker
- Works independently and as a member of a team
- Strong enterprise-level Agile project management and vendor management skills
- Models 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
Required:
- A Bachelor s degree, preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems
- 10 years+ of architecting business intelligence, ETL, data governance, data modeling, data architecture and master data solutions
- At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership, and/or multi-functional team leadership
- Experience in identifying, diagnosing, isolating, and resolving sophisticate complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
- Expertise with building technology systems and solutions for Big Data, Machine Learning/Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW)
- Experience working with AWS Cloud native solutions
- Experience with Visualization & Reporting Tools like Tableau or Power BI
- Experience with Data Fabric, Data Virtualization Technologies, and Lakehouse Solutions
- Credentialed certifications in Data Governance and Master Data Management
- Significant partner management experience in a matrix organization
- Experience working in a Financial Services firm, specifically Asset Management
Additional Requirements:
As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace. Based on work location, you may be required to submit proof of having received the final dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine prior to the position start date unless you have obtained a reasonable accommodation.
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.
�2019 American Century Proprietary Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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