Vice President; Software Engineer

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Newark, NJ

Software Engineer with a focus on accessibility (WCAG, PDF/UA) and CI/CD pipelines, requiring a Master's degree and 3 years of experience in SDLC, accessibility solutions, automated testing, web/mobile development, manual accessibility testing, and driving accessibility practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and develop complex requirements to accomplish business goals.
  2. Ensure that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
  3. Ensure solutions are well designed with maintainability, ease of integration, and testing built in from the outset.
  4. Contribute to story refinement and define requirements.
  5. Participate in estimating work necessary to realize a story or requirement through the delivery lifecycle.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, CIS, MIS, Engineering (any), or related
  • 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related IT occupation
  • Working across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.1/2.2, and PDF/UA standards
  • Architecting and implementing accessibility solutions and automated testing frameworks using tools including axe-core, Pa11y, Lighthouse, integrated into CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and CI/CD
  • Developing and reviewing accessible components and applications for web, mobile platforms using React, Angular, Swift, Kotlin and Java, ensuring semantic structure, ARIA compliance, and keyboard/focus management
  • Performing advanced manual accessibility testing with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack and remediating issues in PDFs and Office documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro, PAC 2024, and CommonLook
  • Participating in accessibility advocacy and driving cultural shift by embedding accessibility-first principles into design and engineering practices, influencing stakeholders, and promoting inclusive development across the organization
  • Providing strategic direction, creating Accessibility champions, championing shift-left accessibility practices, and driving continuous improvement and innovation in accessibility automation and compliance

What the JD emphasized

  • Working across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.1/2.2, and PDF/UA standards
  • Architecting and implementing accessibility solutions and automated testing frameworks using tools including axe-core, Pa11y, Lighthouse, integrated into CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and CI/CD
  • Developing and reviewing accessible components and applications for web, mobile platforms using React, Angular, Swift, Kotlin and Java, ensuring semantic structure, ARIA compliance, and keyboard/focus management
  • Performing advanced manual accessibility testing with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack and remediating issues in PDFs and Office documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro, PAC 2024, and CommonLook
  • Participating in accessibility advocacy and driving cultural shift by embedding accessibility-first principles into design and engineering practices, influencing stakeholders, and promoting inclusive development across the organization
  • Providing strategic direction, creating Accessibility champions, championing shift-left accessibility practices, and driving continuous improvement and innovation in accessibility automation and compliance