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Blue Acorn iCi

Builds online stores and digital experiences

Business Architect - Salesforce Marketing Cloud Specialization

ContractPosted on 10/19/2026
No salary listed
Expert
Remote in USA
RemoteRemote within the United States; travel up to 40%.
ConsultingTechnology & Systems Consulting
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in business architecture, strategic consulting, marketing technology consulting, business transformation, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading business and functional architecture for enterprise Salesforce Marketing Cloud implementations.
  • Strong knowledge of Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Email Studio, Contact Builder, Data Extensions, segmentation, and personalization.
  • Understanding of SQL, AMPscript, Server-Side JavaScript, and API integration patterns sufficient to evaluate solution approaches and collaborate with technical teams.
  • Experience defining customer data, consent, preference management, and integration requirements.
  • Demonstrated ability to define, design, and document business processes and current-state and future-state business architectures.
  • Experience translating business strategies into capabilities, operating models, roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and value-realization plans.
  • Experience developing business cases, ROI assumptions, value metrics, and performance measures.
  • Strong executive communication, workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently, think strategically, manage competing expectations, and mentor functional practitioners.
  • Ability to travel up to 40%.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as a senior business advisor and own business architecture, functional direction, and value realization for complex engagements, transformation initiatives, or defined business domains.
  • Apply industry, market, customer, operational, and financial insights to frame business challenges, identify opportunities, and guide transformation priorities.
  • Translate strategic objectives into target capabilities, value streams, operating-model components, process improvements, initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
  • Define current-state and future-state business architecture across stakeholders, governance, processes, information, customer experience, and enabling technology.
  • Make and govern key business architecture decisions, documenting assumptions, options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and decision rationale.
  • Lead discovery and functional architecture for Salesforce Marketing Cloud engagements, translating marketing strategies into prioritized use cases and platform requirements.
  • Define customer lifecycle journeys, audience segmentation, personalization strategies, and cross-channel engagement requirements.
  • Guide solution design across Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Email Studio, Contact Builder, and relevant mobile messaging capabilities.
  • Define business requirements for customer data models, Data Extensions, subscriber identity, consent, preferences, and audience activation.
  • Partner with technical architects to define integrations between Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce CRM, customer data platforms, and external systems.
  • Evaluate platform capabilities and constraints, explaining solution options and architectural tradeoffs to business and technical stakeholders.
  • Establish marketing operating models, campaign governance, approval workflows, testing requirements, and business readiness criteria.
  • Guide user acceptance testing, adoption, and ongoing optimization to support intended business outcomes.
  • Develop business cases, transformation roadmaps, investment roadmaps, and value-realization plans based on expected benefits, ROI assumptions, readiness, sequencing, risk, and time to impact.
  • Define value metrics, baselines, milestones, success criteria, accountability, and review cadences.
  • Develop and maintain value maps connecting project deliverables to intended business outcomes.
  • Define measures for campaign effectiveness, customer engagement, conversion, retention, and operational efficiency.
  • Review delivery, adoption, operational, and business-performance evidence to evaluate realized value, identify barriers, and recommend adjustments.
  • Use performance evidence and emerging business needs to identify future transformation opportunities.
  • Lead discovery and scoping sessions to establish project requirements, objectives, business context, and expected outcomes.
  • Translate business requirements into business-value specifications that connect proposed solutions to intended results.
  • Support presales by defining business processes and articulating value propositions, benefits, scope, and value-realization plans.
  • Review statements of work, solution designs, and presales documentation to align project teams on business goals and scope.
  • Partner across business and technical disciplines to maintain alignment between business intent and implementation.
  • Oversee implementation alignment with value-realization plans throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Facilitate executive decision forums to establish strategic alignment, investment priorities, decision rights, ownership, and governance.
  • Maintain active stakeholder communication to support transparency and informed decision-making.
  • Mentor consultants and functional leads and develop reusable business architecture and value-realization methods.
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and practices that improve business outcomes.
  • Use approved AI-enabled tools to analyze business information, model scenarios, and identify transformation opportunities with appropriate controls.
Desired Qualifications
  • Relevant Salesforce Marketing Cloud certifications.
  • Experience with Salesforce CRM, customer data platforms, and Adobe Experience Cloud solutions.
  • Experience supporting enterprise marketing environments across multiple brands, business units, or regions.
  • Relevant industry-domain knowledge.
  • Experience using approved AI-enabled tools to analyze business information, model scenarios, and identify transformation opportunities.

About the company

Blue Acorn iCi designs and builds online stores and digital content experiences for global brands that need to connect customers with their products. Its work spans the path from deciding which technology to use through implementing platforms and improving how customers move through a website. The company combines design and technical consulting with hands-on services for enterprise clients, including the migration of existing sites to different commerce systems. Brands hire its teams for transformation programs, platform implementations and ongoing optimization rather than buying a single standalone application. Part of Infosys, Blue Acorn iCi formed in a 2019 merger and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Charleston, SC

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • Remote work is part of the model: Blue Acorn iCi describes its culture as remote-first.
  • Employees get work tools: Blue Acorn iCi says it invests in software and equipment for all employees.
  • Pay expectations are explicit: its remote Adobe Experience Platform Architect role lists annual base pay of $140,000-$195,000.

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  • Senior architects juggle client demands: the listed platform architect advises multiple accounts and supports pre-sales.
  • US applicants need independent work authorization: its careers board excludes employer visa sponsorship now and in future.
  • Recruiter entry requirements are steep: its Contract Technical Recruiter role requires 10+ years and Adobe ecosystem hiring experience.

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  • Customer profiles update live: its customer data platform services support real-time personalization across brand experiences.

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