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American Century Investments

Manager, Data Engineering, AI-Ready Data Enablement

American Century Investments

. Lead development and operations for an Enterprise Data Technology team .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeUnited StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in leading data engineering initiatives, developing AI-ready data products, and implementing enterprise data platforms. Proficient in mentoring teams, optimizing data delivery processes, and ensuring data quality and governance.

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Data Engineering SolutionsAI-Ready Data ProductsEnterprise Semantic LayerAWS Data ServicesAgile Methodologies

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Hard Skills
PythonJavaScalaC#Data MovementSemantic ModelingData Pipeline DevelopmentData ArchitectureSQLRelational Databases
Soft Skills
MentoringTechnical LeadershipCollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication
Tools & Technologies
AWS S3AWS GlueAWS RedshiftAWS EMRGitTableau
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS Certification
Industry Keywords
Data EcosystemData GovernanceData QualityBusiness ContextEvent-Driven Design

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Amazon RedshiftAWSCloudEC2JavaMicroservicesPythonScalaSDLCSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead development and operations for an Enterprise Data Technology team
  • Provide technical guidance for data engineering, data platforms, and AI-ready data products
  • Mentor and guide team members toward empowered delivery and growth
  • Contribute to the evolution of a data-driven culture
  • Work with IT and business data teams to enable self-service development and consumption of trusted, AI-ready data products
  • Provide hands-on engineering guidance and contribute to technical design and architecture decisions
  • Review engineering approaches and help solve complex data challenges
  • Build and maintain an enterprise data ecosystem covering ingestion, storage, organization, and interfaces
  • Develop scalable data engineering pipelines and data platforms
  • Analyze business and technical requirements for data systems and applications
  • Scope, estimate, and schedule project work
  • Coordinate integration of IT policies, procedures, and development practices
  • Identify and implement process improvements, including automation, data delivery optimization, and infrastructure redesign
  • Research emerging data engineering, data platform, and semantic technologies
  • Lead development of AI-ready data products enriched with metadata, business definitions, relationships, and context
  • Build reusable semantic models and contribute to an enterprise semantic layer
  • Partner with IT and business data teams on reusable engineering patterns, semantic modeling guidance, tooling, hands-on support, data quality, governance, and secure access
  • Report to the Director - Data Technologies

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field of study, or equivalent relevant work experience
  • 7+ years of progressive hands-on engineering implementing data engineering solutions and data platforms
  • 2+ years of experience leading engineers through people management, technical leadership, or a combination of both
  • Hands-on experience building AI-ready data products with semantic modeling, metadata, and business context
  • Experience developing or implementing an enterprise semantic layer
  • Experience partnering with IT and business data teams to enable self-service development of data products
  • 5+ years of experience using SDLC and Agile
  • 1–3 years of experience with AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, and EMR
  • 3–5 years of demonstrated experience with data movement such as EMR and Glue
  • 5+ years of validated programming experience with Python, Java, Scala, or C#
  • 1–3 years of DevOps experience with Git, build, artifact/package management, and deployment automation
  • Ability to work in a multifunctional team environment across business units, vendors, countries, and cultures
  • Demonstrated American Century Investments Winning Behaviors
  • Preferred: experience in SQL, relational databases, and data modeling
  • Preferred: AWS Certification
  • Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud services in AWS, including EC2, EMR, and Glue
  • Preferred: business, technical, and application architecture experience
  • Preferred: event-driven design, APIs, microservices, and stateless/chaos architecture
  • Preferred: experience with financial product datasets
  • Preferred: familiarity with data discovery, analytics, and BI tools such as Tableau
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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
  • Scheduled office attendance