Accessibility Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• To provide senior level accessibility technical support and consulting to developers across the enterprise when building web applications, mobile applications and working with vendor hosted solutions.
• The Accessibility Office is focused on improving client's ability to create information and functionality that is accessible to all people.
• Working with the Accessibility Office, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with various IT teams across sub-divisions to help them implement accessibility guidelines and best practices.
• Willingness to be the hands-on Accessibility Expert, where you will advise, support, and contribute solutions to front-end design and development teams as they strive to improve the accessibility of our client-facing digital interfaces.

• Passion to help the entire team focus on accessibility and ability to train and coach Front-End Developers, Software Testers, UX Designers, Content Strategists, Visual Designers and accessibility ambassadors on best practices and creative solutions to sometimes complicated implementations.
• Provides overview of techniques developers can use when building users interfaces that comply with Accessibility Guidelines.
• Is highly functional on large, matrixed project teams. Interfaces with cross functional team members, including database administrator, IT security, project manager, technical writer, and clients.
• Communicates systems issues at the appropriate technical level for each audience.
• Contribute to client's knowledge of industry accessibility acumen and documentation
• Supporting Accessibility Office tracking and monitoring of accessibility issues from discovery through remediation

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 level A and AA) and ability to mentor other developers.
• Knowledge of HTML 4 and 5, ARIA, CSS 2 and 3, JavaScript, Typescript
• Automated testing and building Single Page web application experience.
• Assistive technology knowledge and experience is a plus (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and ZoomText).
• Development experience with Angular, React, and JavaScript/typescript frameworks is a plus
• Working Knowledge of AWS Platform is a plus; such as but not limited to S3, EC2, Postgress, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate, Lamda
• Tableau experience
• Thoroughly understands software development methodology and architecture standards
• 5-8 years developer experience, 2 years accessibility experience