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Blue Acorn iCi

Builds online stores and digital experiences

Business Architect

Full-Time
$165k - $200k/yr
Expert
Remote in USA
RemoteRemote within the United States; travel up to 40%.
ConsultingStrategy & Management Consulting
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in business architecture, strategic consulting, business transformation, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 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, return on investment assumptions, value metrics, performance measures, and transformation or investment roadmaps.
  • Strong understanding of digital technology solutions and their alignment with business goals.
  • Experience facilitating executive decision-making and communication across business, technology, product, data, design, and delivery teams.
  • Interpersonal, verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently, think strategically, and manage competing expectations confidently under pressure.
  • Ability to identify and recommend value-added solutions 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 direction, 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.
  • Develop business cases, transformation roadmaps, investment roadmaps, and value-realization plans based on expected benefits, return on investment 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.
  • Review delivery, adoption, operational, and business-performance evidence to evaluate realized value, identify barriers, and recommend adjustments to scope, sequencing, readiness, or investment.
  • Use realized and unrealized value, industry developments, and emerging business needs to identify and frame future transformation opportunities.
  • Lead discovery and scoping sessions to establish a clear understanding of project requirements, objectives, business context, and expected outcomes.
  • Define the what and why of initiatives by translating business requirements into business-value specifications and connecting proposed solutions to intended outcomes.
  • Support presales activities by helping prospective customers define and document business processes and by articulating value propositions, benefits, scope alignment, and value-realization plans.
  • Review statements of work, solution designs, and presales documentation to align project teams on business goals, scope, and value creation.
  • Partner with Product, Experience, Solution, Engineering, Data, Design, Technology, Delivery, and PMO leaders to evaluate options and maintain alignment between business intent and implementation.
  • Oversee implementation alignment with value-realization plans and identify opportunities for improvement throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Facilitate executive decision forums that establish strategic alignment, investment priorities, decision rights, ownership, governance, and measurable outcomes.
  • Maintain active communication with stakeholders to support transparency, alignment, and informed decision-making.
  • Mentor consultants and functional leads and develop reusable business architecture, strategy, and value-realization methods.
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, recommending innovative solutions that improve business outcomes.
  • Use approved AI-enabled tools to analyze complex business information, model scenarios, improve architecture work, and identify transformation opportunities while establishing appropriate controls.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Adobe solutions.
  • Relevant platform expertise, technical skills, certifications, or 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.

What critics are saying

  • 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.

What makes Blue Acorn iCi unique

  • Dealer networks get shared storefront infrastructure: Unified Reseller Network combines dealer catalogs and access controls on Adobe platforms.
  • Content authors keep familiar tools: its Adobe Edge Delivery Services work publishes websites through Google Docs or Microsoft Word.
  • Customer profiles update live: its customer data platform services support real-time personalization across brand experiences.

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