What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer Sr Specialist (Sales & Marketing Tech) position at American Century Investments?
About Us
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 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.
Role Summary
The Software Engineer Sr Specialist serves as a hands-on technical leader supporting Sales and Marketing Technology. This role designs, builds, and oversees scalable, secure, and integrated solutions across SaaS platforms, custom applications, and AI-enabled capabilities. The Sr Specialist actively develops production solutions while guiding technical direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing architecture decisions—particularly around the responsible adoption of AI.
This role reports to IT Manager - Software Engineering - Application Delivery.
This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, Missouri office.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.
How You Will Make An Impact
What We Offer
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.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. 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.
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.
American Century Proprietary Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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 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.
Role Summary
The Software Engineer Sr Specialist serves as a hands-on technical leader supporting Sales and Marketing Technology. This role designs, builds, and oversees scalable, secure, and integrated solutions across SaaS platforms, custom applications, and AI-enabled capabilities. The Sr Specialist actively develops production solutions while guiding technical direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing architecture decisions—particularly around the responsible adoption of AI.
This role reports to IT Manager - Software Engineering - Application Delivery.
This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, Missouri office.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.
How You Will Make An Impact
- Design and build end-to-end solutions across applications, integrations, AI, security, and operations.
- Lead technical solution design and act as a key advisor on architecture, patterns, and standards.
- Drive practical and responsible adoption of AI within Sales and Marketing workflows.
- Evaluate SaaS platforms, APIs, and vendors; support POCs and technical governance reviews.
- Maintain the health and effectiveness of the existing tech stack by resolving issues that emerge, facilitating required maintenance and eliminating tech debt.
- Partner with engineering, security, enterprise architecture, and vendors to deliver scalable solutions.
- Mentor developers through design reviews, implementation guidance, and knowledge sharing
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent professional experience demonstrating advanced software engineer and architectural capability
- At least 8 years software engineering experience with strong architectural judgment
- At least 3 years operating with clear architectural responsibility, such as: Owning solution design (not just implementing tickets). Making integration and platform decisions. Evaluating SaaS/vendor architectures. Balancing delivery speed with long-term scalability and security
- Hands-on experience with modern application stacks (Java/Spring, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js).
- Strong integration experience (API-driven and service-based architectures).
- Experience designing and integrating SaaS solutions, including Salesforce ecosystems (API and data flow knowledge required).
- Working knowledge of applied AI/automation and integrating AI services into business workflows.
- Cloud-native experience (containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, observability tools).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical decisions into business impact
- Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.
- Experience in regulated or risk-sensitive environments.
- Participation in architecture review boards or cross-domain technical leadership forums.
- Experience leading vendor evaluations, RFPs, or technical POCs.
- Familiarity with identity and access management (e.g., Okta, RBAC, MFA).
- Experience contributing to AI governance, standards, or reusable engineering patterns.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
- Generous PTO and competitive benefits
- 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. 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.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. 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.
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.
American Century Proprietary Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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