UI engineer with Accessibility experience

Accessibility Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

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 Vanguard's knowledge of industry accessibility acumen and documentation as needed
Supporting Accessibility Office tracking and monitoring of accessibility issues from discovery through remediation
Qualifications

Required skillsets/relevant experience:
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