Description
Lead Design Systems Engineer - Accessibility (WCAG)
Our client, a global supplier for IT services, requires experienced Lead Design Systems Engineers, to join their team in their clients' office in Edinburgh or London or completely remote from the UK.
This is 6 months temporary contract, to start on 8th March.
The right candidates should have good skills in HTML/CSS and 8+ years relevant experience in Design Engineering for digital products.
Role Purpose:
The client is loking for talented and creative Lead Design Systems Engineers to join their team who will work collaboratively to establish, evolve, maintain and document their Design System. The role will require effective partnership with UI/UX Designers, other Design Engineers, Product Management and User Research.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to maintain UI/UX consistency in projects and lead the technical implementation of design systems
- Help build the core elements to establish and maintain the Design System (taking UX, visual, interaction and motion elements as well as documented behaviours and usage guidelines to turn them into HTML/CSS/Javascript)
- Cultivate internal knowledge around the Design System by being a subject matter expert
- Collaborate with Javascript Programmers to QA the patterns they build are in alignment with the Design System and their outputs meet Standards and Accessibility requirements as well as being semantic
- Create and maintain the Design System website as well as the code base it documents
Key Requirements:
- 8+ years relevant experience in Design Engineering for digital products
- 4+ years relevant experience designing products using a Design System
- Mastery of HTML/CSS and their affordances and limitations
- Experience with using pre-processors such as SASS/LESS and architecting accordingly
- Knowledge of Atomic design principles and the use of appropriate naming conventions (eg BEM)
- Experienced, detail-orientated Engineer with strong knowledge of interaction and visual design as well as familiarity with information architecture
- Expert knowledge of creating accessibly compliant interfaces (WCAG) which are driven by semantic detail
- Experience working in the full lifecycle of Lean/Agile delivery model
- Basic knowledge of interactive JavaScript and DOM manipulation (jQuery)
- Passion for designing digital products and experiences
- Ability to think in terms of systems, connecting and making relationships across multiple teams and experiences
- Experience in Life & Pensions, Wealth Management
- Should be able to propose and convince customer in terms of implementing industry standard best practices, wherever applicable
- Self disciplined, self motivating and self improving
- Effectively communicate and present complex conceptual thinking visually and verbally
- Degree level qualification in a relevant subject