American Century Investments

Emerging Tech Labs Intern

10 October 2024
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Deadline date:
£50000 - £100000 / year

Job Description

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.

Do you have passion for Information Technology?

Throughout your internship, you’ll work alongside several IT professionals applying technology to seek significant business scenarios. Our company has a dynamic information technology environment, demonstrating technologies such as data science, robotic process automation, Agile/DevOps, and the cloud for Infrastructure as a Service. You will become a member of a team such as Innovation Lab, Application Development, Information Security, Database Administration, Technical Services, Desktop Support, or Network Services. You have opportunities to work directly on impactful solutions.

Our IT teams align with all facets of the business. We use a combination of purchased software (both cloud and hosted on premise), internally developed applications and infrastructure (cloud and on-prem) to support Investment Management, Sales, Client Servicing, and Corporate Functions.

Here are some things we’re looking for in our next intern:

  • Model the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitive Drive

  • You are a rising Junior or Senior in Information Technology, MIS, Computer Science, or related major or focus of study

  • Effective analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; attention to detail and accuracy

  • You have steadfast ethical standards and integrity

  • Cloud (AWS)

  • data engineering (query, SQL, DBMS familiarity)

  • Data Science-ML (algorithms, ML libraries, techniques such as EDA, feature development and simplification)

  • GenAI (prompt engineering, embedding, system prompts)

  • ML Engineering (Operations and monitoring, metrics and model evaluations, training and model serving)

  • Languages (python, SQL, JavaScript)

Here’s Why You Should Choose ACI:

  • Our interns receive competitive pay! As well as 401k eligibility for contributions

  • We offer a Mentor Program: a designated mentor will be assigned to you during your time with us to provide career coaching and mentorship

  • Access to Business Resource Groups that you can ally and participate with (Accelerate, Charlie Mike, Emerging Professionals, Enable, Pride, Mosaic)

  • Casual dress code – you can be comfortable and express your unique self

  • A robust social and philanthropic calendar of events hosted just for interns!

Internship Structure:

  • 10 Week Program

  • 40 hours a week, between 8am-5pm CST

  • Location: Kansas City, MO

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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