Adobe AEM Functional Lead

Accenture•Milwaukee, NY

23h•Remote

About The Position

An expert who excels at defining and implementing innovative, web-based solutions that transform how clients acquire and engage their customers. In this role, you will serve as a trusted thought leader for web content management and digital experience platforms — bridging business strategy and technical execution on large-scale implementations. If driving business and functional requirements across complex, multi-stakeholder programs is where you do your best work, this role is for you.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of Adobe full lifecycle implementation experience using various SDLC methodologies
Minimum of 3 years of experience in the tactical deployment or re-launch of WCM (Web Content Management) applications
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)

Nice To Haves

Experience eliciting high-level business requirements and creating detailed functional specifications, requirement traceability matrices, workflow diagrams, and use cases
Demonstrated ability to lead functional discussions and scoping decisions based on AEM best practices, with proven knowledge of AEM out-of-the-box features and latest capabilities
Experience working closely with content authoring teams to set up and assemble AEM Sites and DAM
Functional expertise in relevant digital experience platforms such as Adobe AEM, Acquia/Drupal, Episerver, Sitecore, SAP Hybris, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or Elastic Path
Experience collaborating with designers to fulfill UI/UX designs in parallel with front-end and back-end developers
Ability to define and execute content migration plans across complex implementations
Experience with multi-lingual and multichannel implementations

Responsibilities

Planning and performing analysis of content management activities and functions, and guiding the subsequent design, implementation, or improvement of existing AEM applications.
Offering recommendations during AEM solution design and execution from a functional perspective to ensure business intent is clearly understood by the project team.
Serving as the bridge between business teams and technical resources during development and implementation to ensure requirements and dependencies are well understood.
Providing insights and recommendations around AEM best practices to drive optimal decision making across global digital strategy, platform governance, onboarding of net-new sites, and other essential AEM digital deliverables.
Maintaining a general understanding of overall application architecture including Author, Publisher, Dispatcher, Load Balancing, CDN, and other security layers.
Outlining pros and cons of AEM solutions and bringing a forward-thinking approach to both short-term and long-term business use cases.
Providing oversight across Adobe Assets and Analytics setup, taxonomy, and configurations.
Driving the framework for Adobe tools to interface and integrate with third-party applications.
Identifying technical feasibility of requirements while surfacing gaps and raising issues accordingly.
Serving as functional SME for integration points, workflows, content authoring, run management, platform governance, and documentation deliverables.
Leading and contributing to the definition of content governance procedures, business requirements, functional designs, and workflows for creating, managing, and publishing web content.
Assisting with business process redesign, roadmap planning, and identifying touchpoints across multi-channel applications.
Bringing together the suite of Adobe Marketing Cloud offerings — including Sites, Assets, Analytics, Forms, Campaign, Target, and Magento — to deliver cohesive, connected solutions.
Mentoring and coaching team members by sharing perspective and knowledge of content management initiatives, and maintaining open dialogue with colleagues and clients.
Supporting the development of strong client relationships by building trust, rapport, and strong working relationships with key sponsors, stakeholders, and team members.