diff --git a/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/DOM/Backends/JSON/JsonSerializationUtils.cpp b/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/DOM/Backends/JSON/JsonSerializationUtils.cpp
index 302fd7bd63..aa0b24a5ad 100644
--- a/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/DOM/Backends/JSON/JsonSerializationUtils.cpp
+++ b/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/DOM/Backends/JSON/JsonSerializationUtils.cpp
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ namespace AZ::DOM::Json
 
         rapidjson::Document m_result;
         AZStd::deque<ValueInfo> m_entryStack;
-        AZ::u64 m_entryCount = 0;
     };
 
     //
@@ -490,6 +489,7 @@ namespace AZ::DOM::Json
         const char* Peek4() const
         {
             AZ_Assert(false, "Not implemented, encoding is hard-coded to UTF-8");
+            return m_cursor;
         }
 
         char* m_cursor; //!< Current read position.
diff --git a/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/azcore_files.cmake b/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/azcore_files.cmake
index 54f2c9ecca..abb16d61a0 100644
--- a/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/azcore_files.cmake
+++ b/Code/Framework/AzCore/AzCore/azcore_files.cmake
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ set(FILES
     Debug/TraceMessagesDrillerBus.h
     Debug/TraceReflection.cpp
     Debug/TraceReflection.h
-    DOM/DomAdapter.h
     DOM/DomBackend.cpp
     DOM/DomBackend.h
     DOM/DomBackendRegistry.cpp