Agile Delivery (IT) Internship

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 60 years of experience helping investors achieve their financial goals. Serving a broad client base including financial advisors, institutions, and individual investors, we offer a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

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—or more than $1.5 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 550-person, non-profit 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.

Headquartered in Kansas City, MO, we also have offices located in New York; London; Hong Kong; Sydney; El Segundo, CA (Los Angeles area); and Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley).

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Do you have passion for improving business outcomes? 

Throughout your internship, you’ll work alongside several IT and business professionals applying technology to identify, build, and deliver better business solutions. Our company has a dynamic information technology environment and culture of business and IT collaboration leveraging technologies such as AI/ML, data science, Agile/DevOps, and the cloud for Infrastructure as a Service. You will become a member of the Agile Delivery Team and have opportunities to work closely with Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, Agile Coaches as well as business partners and IT team members.

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 in a Liberal Arts program with a strong interest in technology
• Effective analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; attention to detail and accuracy
• You have steadfast ethical standards and integrity

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 (Diversity, Women in Finance, LGBTQ+, Emerging Professionals, and more)
• 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: June 3rd - August 9th
• 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.

As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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.