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 analyze data and translate results into actionable insights. Excellent problem solving skills essential.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple requests concurrently.
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to determine priorities, to plan, organize and follow through on assignments. Accuracy and attention to detail are essential.
• Must be customer focused.
• Ability to learn technical software applications and statistical techniques.
• Professional attitude and appearance.
• Ability to translate business issues into data analysis objectives.
• Understands latest techniques in statistical data analysis.

Required Experience:

• Master’s or PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other analytical related field required.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and quantitative analysis skills.
• Experience with Python or other statistical software language/application.
• Experience with AWS and its Data Science stack (Sagemaker, Glue, Athena, etc.)
• Experience with SQL in data warehouse environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Minimum 5 years data analysis experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working with senior management in presenting reports/making recommendations.
• 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

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Financial Services industry or Direct to Consumer, ideally of the Asset Management space.
• 5+ years of experience building and implementing statistical models.
• 2+ years of experience managing projects, programs or vendors.

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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