Deployment Architect, Advisor

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.
Privately owned and independent, we focus solely on investment management. We direct 40% of our dividends every year—over $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life‑threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. At American Century Investments, we’re hiring a highly hardworking and technical Architect Advisor to help accelerate our cloud migration, automation, and AI-enabled platform strategy. This is an excellent opportunity to join a team of enterprise architects while also developing your skills across cloud, data, automation, and artificial intelligence capabilities that support enterprise innovation.
This role reports to Director, Enterprise Architecture.
Partner with application teams across the organization to deliver strategic consulting on cloud migration, platform modernization, and the responsible adoption of AI-enabled solutions.
Collaborate with stakeholders enterprise-wide to identify, design, and implement scalable infrastructure and platform services.
Enable access to cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that support business and technology objectives.
Drive the adoption of AI and automation capabilities, helping teams improve efficiency, innovation, and operational effectiveness.
Evaluate business and technical requirements to recommend and deliver the right cloud and platform solutions.
Influence platform and product roadmap priorities by finding opportunities for feature enhancements and innovation based on evolving solution needs.
Foster cross-functional partnerships to accelerate technology transformation and maximize the value of cloud and AI investments.
BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience.
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.
Experience with AI/ML or generative AI capabilities in enterprise environments, including cloud AI services, model integration, prompt-driven solutions, AI assistants, or responsible AI governance
Expert knowledge of DNS, Load Balancing, DB Clustering, and High Availability as it relates to all tiers of architecture
Python, Node.js
Ability to assess AI use cases, translate business needs into technical solution patterns, and communicate AI architecture considerations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience with automated deployment technologies
Experience with infrastructure as code, container management and deployment
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
Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Additional Assets (Preferred)
Experience in design and development of system architecture for the IaaS and PaaS platform
Evaluate and implement cloud technologies and capabilities to increase service availability, improve performance, and optimize cost
Evaluate and implement AI-enabled technologies, including machine learning, generative AI, intelligent automation, and cloud-native AI services, to improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, and developer productivity
Build and implement standards on configuration management, system and application infrastructure, security, and performance monitoring
Document system architectures, systems configurations, and technical operational processes and policies
Collaborate with data, security, architecture, and application teams to define AI solution patterns, governance guardrails, integration approaches, and operational support models
Solve complex operation and performance issues
Experience with AWS in production environments with complex infrastructure requirements
Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, CloudFormation
Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling
Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to View email address on click.appcast.io. 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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