American Century Investments

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.

The Role:

We are looking for an IAM Security Specialist to join American Century’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. As a member of the team you will be responsible for providing our staff with access to authorized company resources while preventing any unauthorized access.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive the design, implementation and management of Identity and Access Management Services which includes Identity Life Cycle Management, Access Management (SSO, federation, multi-factor), Role and Rights Management, Entitlement Review and Attestation (Audit & Assurance) and Identity & Access Analytics.
• Assist with creating and managing roles, birthright access, workflows and application integrations within Sailpoint IdentityNow.
• Contribute to the innovation of software development within the IAM domain.
• Accountable for building, managing, and maintaining identity and access related security tools and the infrastructure required to support them with focus on designing and implementing automation to aid the team in creating efficiencies.
• Accountable for working with select team members to track, monitor, and report testing results in a meaningful way so that risk-based security metrics are delivered to the enterprise.
• Active Directory and Azure Active Directory management.
• Management of privileged access systems and processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information systems or equivalent work experience in the IT/Security field.
• 3+ years of professional experience required.
• Experience with identity and access management best practices, Sailpoint, Active Directory, Group Policy and Okta.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong documentation, testing and automation skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements.
• Ability to explain technical solutions to technical teams and non-technical teams.
• Strong ability to align and mature to security practices.
• Experience preferred with Agile methodologies.

Required:

• Exhibits 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.

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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