Policy analyst Jobs in Kansas City, KS

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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 over 40% of our profits every year-more than $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 1,400 of us across 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.

Are you interested in an Analyst role that includes product owner responsibility? Do you have experience working with data sets within the financial services industry? We may have the opportunity you have been waiting for!

We have a Data Analytics opportunity within our innovative Enterprise Data team. You will play a key role in helping to drive data forward along with strategic objectives. In this role, you will support efforts to use data to enhance productivity and encourage partners throughout the enterprise to adopt and embrace the concepts of data governance, master data, and analytics using an enterprise data platform. Other primary responsibilities are to act in the role of product owner and define and prioritize the product backlog for various investment data domains.

The Analyst will interact and collaborate with Business leaders, Product Managers and Product Owners in Marketing, Sales and Distribution, along with the development team(s), business users and other partners to understand the vision for the business and reduce risk. You will also own and maintain a product backlog that ultimately seeks to deliver data and business solutions.

Responsibilities :

• Work with the Enterprise Data Management and their team, as well as other business leaders on the near and long-term roadmap for two key capabilities within American Century's data and analytics workstreams : Data Mastery and Data products and Self-Service Data Analytics.
• Good understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure (S3, Redshift, RDS).
• ETL development skills (Glue ETL, Python, Lambda).
• Ability to extract data from data stores with strong analytical skills.
• Requirements gathering and translation of the product vision from feature(s) into stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria
• Data mapping, Modeling and Data Flows skills to help data architects
• Data testing skills to help team perform in-sprint testing activities.

Required experience / education :

P lease note : This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Location : Kansas City.

Preferred :

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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