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Posted Friday, August 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Koniag Advisory and Business Solutions, LLC a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Accessibility (508) Engineer to support KABS and our government customer in Washington, DC. The position is hybrid, requires 1 day onsite. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

Koniag Advisory and Business Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Accessibility (508) Engineer to support the Digital Workplace workforce by ensuring applications, platforms, documents, and digital services are designed, developed, tested, and remediated for accessibility. The successful candidate will provide senior technical guidance on Section 508, WCAG, accessible engineering practices, assistive technology testing, and remediation across enterprise delivery teams. Work will be performed at the client's facility or customer approved remote locations during Eastern Time core business hours.

The Senior Accessibility (508) Engineer will lead accessibility engineering, testing, advisory, and remediation activities for Digital Workplace platforms and products.

• Perform accessibility assessments against Section 508, WCAG 2.x, and applicable federal digital accessibility requirements.
• Lead manual and automated accessibility testing for web applications, platform workflows, documents, dashboards, and user interfaces.
• Provide engineering guidance to developers, designers, product owners, QA analysts, and platform teams on accessible implementation patterns.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and validate remediation of accessibility defects across components, templates, forms, and workflows.
• Develop accessibility test plans, acceptance criteria, defect reports, conformance evidence, and remediation recommendations.
• Support accessibility governance, training, reusable standards, and review checkpoints within Agile and release processes.
• Use assistive technologies and accessibility tools to validate user experience for people with disabilities.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems, Digital Accessibility, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in accessibility engineering, front-end development, quality assurance, or digital compliance.
• Hands-on experience testing and remediating digital products for Section 508 and WCAG conformance.
• IAAP CPACC, WAS, CPWA, DHS Trusted Tester, or comparable accessibility certification.
• Experience supporting federal government digital services or regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience creating accessibility governance practices, standards, and training materials.

• Expert understanding of Section 508, WCAG 2.x, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard access, focus management, forms, color contrast, and document accessibility.
• Experience using screen readers and testing tools such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, axe, ANDI, Lighthouse, or comparable tools.
• Ability to diagnose root causes of accessibility defects and provide practical remediation guidance to engineering teams.
• Experience writing accessibility test plans, defect reports, acceptance criteria, and conformance evidence.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to advise teams without slowing delivery.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

• Experience with ServiceNow, Atlassian, Microsoft 365, Power BI, SharePoint, or enterprise workflow platforms.
• Knowledge of accessible design systems, reusable component libraries, and automated accessibility checks in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting VPAT/ACR evidence collection or accessibility governance boards.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, user-centered design, and usability testing with assistive technology users.

The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin or ancestry, age, disability, citizenship, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other characteristicprotected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.

The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply for a position on our website, please get in touch with Heaven Wood via e-mail at accommodations@koniag-gs.com or by calling 703-488-9377 to request accommodations.

Koniag Government Services (KGS) is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting the values and traditions of our native communities through an agile employee and corporate culture that delivers Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services and Operational Management to Federal Government Agencies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Koniag, we apply our proven commercial solutions to a deep knowledge of Defense and Civilian missions to provide forward leaning technical, professional, and operational solutions. KGS enables successful mission outcomes for our customers through solution-oriented business partnerships and a commitment to exceptional service delivery. We ensure long-term success with a continuous improvement approach while balancing the collective interests of our customers, employees, and native communities. For more information, please visit www.koniag-gs.com.

We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including:

• health, dental and vision insurance
• 401K with company matching
• flexible spending accounts
• paid holidays
• three weeks paid time off
• and more.