American Century Investments®

American Century Investments®

Senior Data Governance Analyst

Kansas City, Missouri · Senior

No sponsorshipDetected 28 days ago
PythonAWSRAGProject ManagementProcess ImprovementCommunicationProblem SolvingAdaptabilitySharePoint

About the role

  • Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.
  • Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management.
  • But there's an unexpected side to us, too.

Responsibilities

  • Experience developing data classification and retention policies and standards.

Requirements

  • Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency.
  • Experience with records management, retention, and legal hold processes.
  • Experience with Python or SQL.

Compensation

  • 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
  • Generous PTO and competitive benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning
  • Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Company info

  • 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 controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there's an unexpected side to us, too. 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. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.
  • All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you're excited to learn more about us, we can't wait to learn more about you.
  • Role Summary
  • Execute and evolve the enterprise data governance operating model across unstructured data (primary) and structured data (secondary), including data supporting AI and analytics use cases.
  • Drive the rollout and adoption of unstructured data governance practices across key platforms (for example SharePoint, Teams, file shares, and cloud repositories), ensuring metadata quality, classification accuracy, retention readiness, and AI fitness.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal, privacy, and records management requirements across the information lifecycle.
  • Partner with Data Owners, Stewards, and technology teams to design and implement workflows, dashboards, and automation for classification, labeling, metadata generation, retention controls, and eDiscovery readiness.
  • Partner with HR Learning and Development to deliver governance, stewardship, and tooling training programs.
  • Serve as a Collibra administrator, driving platform adoption, enabling users, and promoting consistent use of governance tools.
  • Collaborate with governance technology vendors to influence roadmap enhancements across metadata, classification, lineage, and policy enforcement.
  • Manage and evolve internal data products, including unstructured content repositories and AI-ready metadata assets such as taxonomies, labels, and ownership models.
  • Partner with data platform and cloud engineering teams to define governance requirements and guardrails for AWS-based processes that extract, enrich, and register unstructured metadata.
  • Design and operationalize governance standards within automated metadata pipelines, ensuring controls for classification, lineage, retention, and access are embedded by design.

Equal opportunity

  • As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
  • If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com.
  • All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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