AEM Solutions Architect (remote)

Company Description

Blue Acorn iCi, an Infosys company, is a digital consultancy focused on delivering innovative solutions across customer experience, commerce, and data. Our team of over 400 experts enable clients to navigate large-scale, digital transformation programs. 

Whether it’s a digitally savvy consumer brand or a legacy manufacturer, Blue Acorn iCi empowers businesses with digital scalability to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer experience. With services that include strategy, analytics, design, and engineering, we elevate global brands across industries such as media, consumer goods & retail, financial services, manufacturing, technology and more.

Join our innovative and collaborative team as we deliver extraordinary digital experiences for some of the world’s largest brands! 

Position Summary: 

The AEM Solutions Architect will work to help develop a strong understanding of the client needs from a technical perspective. They will assist in the estimation of the technical work effort required for all projects and provide technical scope and defining requirements. They will architect the solution, translate use cases into technical development tasks and ensure completed development tasks meet the customer requirements. The SA interprets client requirements, business processes, and use cases to produce quality technical designs.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Defines and documents the technical requirements with the client and internal team.
• Manages technical risk related to complexity, data integration, scalability, and performance.
• Creates work estimates and documents assumptions to provide a solid foundation for proposals and change control.
• Provides guidance to development teams to ensure that the requirements are followed and implemented accordingly.
• Have an understanding of key AEM technologies and integrations. (e.g. ERP, PIM, ESP, CRM, external API’s such as Salesforce, Amazon, etc.)
• Understands and can relay Adobe best practices to the development team and enforces overall coding best practices. 
• Provide proof of concept solutions when necessary to validate that an approach will meet the customer's business requirements.
• Works with the Technical Architecture team to define the implementation and approach for customizations, interfaces, systems architecture, data flow and data-architecture/data-model.
• Work with different internal and external teams to complete tasks. Identify when other skill sets and team members are necessary to complete tasks accordingly.
• Provides quality documentation to the development team, client and other key stakeholders.
• Identify and communicate any risks or roadblocks identified while working on a project. Work towards a solution with internal team members.
• Ability to map business requirements into the technical capabilities of the ecommerce platform as well as guide clients business needs back to the appropriate use of the platform.
• Receive feedback on documentation and requirements and adjust accordingly. Pivot and document plans or create new requirements based on feedback or new information as projects progress.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties identified above.
• Continued learning on primary platforms and technologies.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of Solutions Architecture experience
• Former experience architecting AEM based implementations
• Prior experience defining and creating technical documentation and requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Working experience with AEM preferably as a developer/tech lead role
• Superior relationship building and interpersonal skills
• Proven track record of obtaining and exceeding goals
• Ability to maintain confidentiality as appropriate
• Excellent Client-facing Presentation and Communication Skills
• Proficient in deciphering business goals and gathering information to determine the most appropriate solutions given the goals, budget, platform, etc.

Preferred:

• AEM Assets Implementation experience
• Adobe Cloud as a service experience
• Dynamic Media experience
• Architecting SPA based applications