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ID #40876299
State New York
City New york city
Job type Full Time
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source CGI Group, Inc.
Showed 2022-05-14
Date 2022-05-14
Deadline 2022-07-13
Category Et cetera
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Angular Accessibility Developer

New York, New york city, 10261 New york city USA

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Angular Accessibility Developer

Position Description CGI Federal's Accessibility Practice is searching for the next member to join our CGI family. As part of CGI Federal's Consulting Applications, Solutions, and Technology (CAST) Emerging Technology Practices (ETP), Accessibility Practice members provide digital accessibility subject matter expertise, design and testing support to teams across CGI Federal and CGI.Accessibility Practice members are internal consultants to CGI product teams as well as our client-facing consulting teams; we independently advise and assess the digital accessibility of our solutions in support of IT development and maintenance projects across the federal government. Our team is passionate about digital inclusion, dedicated to improving universal access to systems and information, and committed to sharing lessons learned with the accessibility community and our CGI members.Are you currently an Angular front-end developer looking for an opportunity to do more meaningful work? Work that empowers others and helps make the world a more inclusive place? Do you believe that anything worth doing is worth doing well? Are you looking to join a close-knit team where your colleagues support you and your manager encourages you to stretch and grow? If so, then we want to talk with you.

Your future duties and responsibilities A qualified candidate will have three to five years of experience developing Angular web-based user interfaces that not only meet "technical" accessibility requirements but also provide an accessible user experience for individuals using assistive technology products. We are seeking candidates with demonstrated experience designing accessible solutions and supporting engineering teams in understanding and fixing accessibility issues. In this role, you will be expected to diplomatically influence product directions, technical roadmaps and development processes to integrate accessibility across the emerging products and solutions under development in or supported by CGI Federal's Emerging Technology Practices. As a Senior Accessibility Developer you will analyze backlogs, identify root causes for accessibility issues, and code issue fixes. You will also support product and/or project development teams to help them understand accessibility concepts and evolve their development processes to better prevent accessibility issues in the future. You will help to develop, customize and maintain design pattern and component libraries documenting agreed upon best practices and code samples to make accessibility more "accessible" to other developers.Your responsibilities will include: Works as part of the Accessibility Practice to support various CGI Federal product teams, delivery teams and clients in meeting their digital inclusion objectives. Independently fixes accessibility issues within an Angular code environment. Customizes Angular libraries to make them accessible. Understands and addressing accessibility issues across the organization, and supports engineering teams in their efforts to address current bugs and prevent new ones. Helps teams to apply inclusive design best practices early (in the design process) through solid understanding of design patterns and the ability to provide guidance that leads to productive experiences for everyone. Educates teams on new standards and evolves best practices and knowledge of different disability segments through customer engagements and usability studies. Raises awareness about accessibility across the organization through training and speaker opportunities, building knowledge repositories, and creation and fostering of internal communities and champions that can help teams achieve their accessibility goals. Actively participates in Program Increment (PI) Planning sessions and provides input on the PI Backlog during Product Management collaboration sessions. Leads technical solutioning and design working sessions to determine technical approach to 508 Epics and defects. Participates in requirements gathering and analysis efforts with the client as needed. Is present at and participates in all Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies (Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner Sync, Technical Syncs, PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt), and Agile team ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand ups, retrospectives).To meet expectations, you must be able to: Demonstrate a strong work ethic, be open to learning new things, and continuously improving your digital accessibility knowledge and skills to support quality delivery to our clients Work in a fast-paced environment to deliver digital accessibility services across multiple product and/or project delivery teams, serving as a reliable source of answers for accessibility questions Work independently, with limited guidance and day-to-day oversight Effectively communicate accessibility requirements and issues in writing as well as verbally in meetings with internal and external clients Produce high-quality work products that meet or exceed client expectations Deliver tasks on time and on budget Consistently build and maintain positive relationships with others, relating well to all kinds of individuals across CGI and the client organizations

Required qualifications to be successful in this role 3+ years working with Angular (NOT AngularJS). The program is currently using Angular 10 3+ years of experience with digital accessibility Experience with accessibility standards and specifications, including: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Section 508 Compliance 3+ years of experience remediating accessibility issues. 3+ years of experience in assistive technologies and screen readers. 3+ years of experience with accessibility standards for all platforms (web, mobile, desktop) and how they apply to products and services. Experience with external Angular libraries, including: Ngx-bootstrap 6 Ngx-spinner 10 Okta-angular 3 Okta-signin-widget 5 Able to create a project using Angular CLI and use Angular CLI (Command Line Interface) 3+ years writing in JavaScript or TypeScript 3+ years writing CSS 2+ years writing CSS in SASS, SCSS or LESS (SCSS or SASS is preferred) 3+ years writing HTML 2+ years experience in Node.js and NPM 2+ years writing test scripts in Karma, Jasmine, etc. Experience in RESTFul concepts Experience in responsive web design Must be very familiar with web components or have experience building them. (Angular components are based on foundational web components) Experience in Libraries such as Bootstrap 4 or Material Experience in repositories such as GitHub, BitBucket, SVN, etc. Basic knowledge of Webpack Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools, and continuous integration using Maven and Jenkins Agile Development knowledge and experience, preferably in a Scaled Agile setting

Desired Qualifications Experience integrating accessibility testing in an automated testing environment Experience with accessibility APIs in Windows desktop development/mobile experience (Android and iOS). Experience with accessibility APIs in web development. Experience performing accessibility testing of software applications on Windows Experience performing accessibility testing of native mobile applications on Android and/or iOS Experience independently conducting accessibility design and/or development reviews to provide agile feedback to UX designers, instructional designers and front-end developers Experience preparing for, observing, and/or analyzing accessibility findings from independent Accessibility Validation Testing by clients or third-party testing contractors Experience conducting research into emerging accessibility topics/trends or new technologies Experience with various collaboration tools, including (but not limited to) JIRA, Confluence, etc. Familiarity with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

As a Federal Contractor, all members of CGI Federal, regardless of role or work location are required to be fully vaccinated effective January 18th 2022 under the current policy, and be willing to provide proof of status, with the exception of those with approved medical or religious accommodations".

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