Senior Adobe Business Consultant

Perficient•Town and Country, MO

About The Position

Perficient is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a client’s Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) team. This hands-on role connects business needs with team delivery by shaping and prioritizing the backlog, writing user stories, facilitating Agile delivery, and ensuring committed features are delivered. The role also supports AEM content migration alongside the feature roadmap. The consultant works closely with client product and marketing stakeholders, AEM developers and architects, QA, and UX. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, maintaining clear documentation, coordinating testing and business acceptance, tracking delivery commitments, and communicating progress, risks, and upcoming work. The position also supports the business aspects of content migration. This includes defining migration scope, conducting content inventories and audits, documenting mapping rules and decisions, planning migration waves, validating migrated content, coordinating sign-off, and supporting cutover and go-live activities. Perficient describes its work environment as collaborative and says it values every voice and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Full-time employees receive competitive compensation, paid time off and holidays, and access to rewards and recognition programs, including billable bonus opportunities.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or in a similar role in a digital or web delivery environment.
Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (Sites, Assets, or Cloud Service), including a working understanding of components, templates, content authoring, and workflows.
Experience supporting content migration projects, including content audits, mapping, validation, and cutover.
Strong track record writing user stories and acceptance criteria in an Agile setting.
Experience running Scrum ceremonies and keeping a team on cadence.
Comfort managing a backlog in Jira, Azure DevOps, or a similar tool.
Excellent communication skills and confidence working with business stakeholders and technical teams.
Strong problem-solving and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage several workstreams at once.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise or e-commerce clients, ideally in retail, manufacturing, or consumer brands.
Familiarity with AEM as a Cloud Service, headless or hybrid delivery, Adobe Experience Platform, or the wider Adobe Experience Cloud.
Experience with AEM migrations, such as moving to AEM as a Cloud Service or from another CMS, and with site redesigns or large multi-site programs.
Agile certification such as CSM, CSPO, or SAFe.
Experience working with distributed or offshore delivery teams.
Background in consulting or client-facing delivery.

Responsibilities

Work with client stakeholders to understand business goals, gather requirements, and translate them into actionable work.
Define, write, and own backlog user stories and epics, including acceptance criteria for developers and testers.
Groom and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, effort, dependencies, and timelines.
Run Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Partner with AEM developers, architects, UX designers, and QA to clarify and scope stories and ensure work is built to specification.
Track sprint and release commitments and raise risks, blockers, and scope changes early, with options for addressing them.
Ensure agreed client features are delivered, tested, accepted, and released on time.
Support UAT by preparing test scenarios, coordinating with business users, and obtaining sign-off.
Document functional requirements, process flows, and decisions.
Report delivery status, progress, risks, and upcoming work to delivery leadership and client stakeholders.
Help improve team practices, including story quality, estimation, and handoffs.
Work with content owners and technical leads to define migration scope, including sites, pages, assets, and templates to migrate or retire.
Run content inventories and audits and help determine what to migrate as-is, restructure, or leave behind.
Write migration stories and acceptance criteria covering content mapping, component and template conversion, metadata, URLs and redirects, and asset handling.
Document migration mapping rules and decisions.
Plan migration waves and track them alongside feature sprints, identifying dependencies and conflicts early.
Coordinate validation and UAT of migrated content, log and triage defects, and obtain business sign-off before cutover.
Support cutover and go-live planning, including content freeze windows and post-launch checks.