Principal, Digital Accessibility Engineer

We are your Energy Technology Partner. We electrify, automate, and digitalize every industry, business, and home, driving efficiency and sustainability for all.

At Schneider Electric, our values - IMPACT (Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork) - are the foundation of everything we do. Becoming an Impact Maker means turning sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization.

Are you ready to lead the digital transformation to create a more sustainable world?

If you are up to challenge your creativity and make an impact, we are excited to welcome you!

Schneider Digital is the digital department of Schneider Electric, leading the digital transformation in the company by giving support globally to our internal teams and our clients. Schneider Digital consists of 6 Digital Hubs worldwide which are strategically located to ensure a 24/7 support across the company (France, China, India, USA, Mexico and Spain). Our Digital Hub in Barcelona is formed by +450 employees working in strategic projects and different roles such as Data, Cybersecurity, ERP, Cloud, Infrastructures, IT Project Management or Digital Marketing.

As Schneider Electric continues to expand and mature its global accessibility initiative, we are seeking a Digital Accessibility Engineer (Technical Program Lead) to take on a technically focused, strategic, and highly influential role.

This position will support and evolve the accessibility program established over the last two plus years while bringing deeper hands‑on expertise in accessibility engineering, testing, and development. Our mission goes beyond accessibility; it is about shaping the user experience and building inclusion by design into everything we do.

The ideal candidate will help shape the next phase of Schneider's accessibility maturity: strengthening engineering practices, supporting product teams through the use of accessibility coaches, and contributing to long‑term governance, tooling, and standards integration.

Why This Role Matters:

Schneider's accessibility program is still early in its global rollout, with tremendous opportunity for impact. The Senior Digital Accessibility Engineer (Technical Program Lead) will:

• Shape technical standards and practices for years to come

• Influence product accessibility outcomes across multiple business units

• Drive meaningful advances in inclusive engineering

• Represent Schneider internally and externally as a leader in accessibility

This is a chance to help build a mature, world‑class accessibility program and ensure that accessibility remains embedded in Schneider's culture, processes, and products.

Key Responsibilities

• Audit: Lead risk-based accessibility audits across web, mobile, and critical third-party integrations using manual testing, automated tools, assistive technologies, and code inspection, delivering prioritized findings, severity ratings using an agreed rubric, and remediation-ready acceptance criteria.

• Test: Validate accessibility with assistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack, ZoomText, voice control) and translate results into actionable guidance that connects conformance requirements to real usability outcomes.

• Guide: Provide technical review and remediation guidance by partnering with teams on root-cause analysis, recommended patterns, and verification steps, including review of pull requests and implementation approaches when needed.

• Define standards: Define and evolve accessibility engineering standards and guardrails aligned to WCAG and relevant regulations, including design system and component requirements, accessible defaults, usage guidance, and definition of done quality criteria.

• Quality gates: Advance test strategy and tooling by recommending and scaling automation in CI/CD and QA workflows, documenting coverage gaps, and defining where manual assistive technology validation is required for confidence.

• Influence: Influence technical program execution through technical inputs to OKRs, risk triage, governance forums, and the coaches network, focusing on measurable adoption and improved product outcomes.

• Enable: Scale team capability through engineering-focused enablement via advanced training, playbooks, office hours, and consultation aimed at reducing repeat issues and improving remediation speed.

Additional Contributions:

• Represent Schneider at conferences or standards engagements when it directly supports current engineering priorities.

• Contribute to internal communications (newsletter, short training episodes) focused on reducing repeat defects and accelerating adoption of quality gates.

• Participate in usability panels and community engagement in partnership with research and design.

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

• 8+ years of professional experience, with proven experience in digital accessibility, including demonstrated depth in auditing, assistive technology testing, and remediation guidance.

• Strong expertise in WCAG, ARIA, semantic HTML, accessible UI patterns, and focus and keyboard behavior.

• Proven ability to translate accessibility findings into engineering-ready guidance, including acceptance criteria and verification steps.

• Strong working knowledge of modern web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) sufficient to review implementations and identify root causes.

• Working knowledge of mobile accessibility (native iOS, Android, or cross-platform) sufficient to guide teams on platform patterns and testing.

• Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder skills, including writing clear audit results and facilitating remediation plans.

Preferred Qualifications

• Lived experience as an assistive technology user.

• IAAP CPACC or WAS, Trusted Tester, or equivalent.

• Experience influencing design systems or component libraries.

• Experience establishing accessibility quality gates and automation strategy at scale.

• Experience with complex enterprise products and workflows.

What will you get?


We adapt to you:

With our flexible schedule, you'll have the freedom to adjust your work hours to accommodate your personal needs and responsibilities.

We know how great it is to work from home. With our hybrid work plan, you can enjoy working from the comfort of your home.

Need more time to relax and disconnect? With our Holy Pack, you can purchase additional vacation days to recharge when you need it most.

Celebrate holidays your way! With Floating Holidays, you can exchange holidays for other days that better suit your plans and personal preferences.

Need additional time to explore new experiences or focus on personal projects? With the Sabbatical Pack, you can request up to 2 months of extra leave (unpaid).

We value the importance of family and want to support you in all aspects of your life. Our Global Family Leave Policy provides flexible paid conditions for when you need it most, whether you're about to be a parent, need time to overcome a loss, or to care for a loved one.

We take care of you:

With access to the health and wellness platform Wellwo , you and up to 5 people of your choice can enjoy access to wellness content, nutrition counseling, fitness classes, and more!

From dance classes to booking a hotel spa, we offer an agreement with Wellhub so you can access a network of thousands of gyms and sports centers to keep your body active in the way you like best.

Your well-being is our priority. You will have medical service at your workplace for close attention to any medical needs.

We empower you:

With Career Hub , our AI-driven professional development platform, you can connect with job opportunities, projects, and mentors at Schneider Electric globally.

We offer you the opportunity to be a shareholder of Schneider Electric and share in our achievements with our stock ownership program.

We celebrate everyone's talent and success with our recognition program, through which you can give and receive points for your achievements and redeem them for gift cards at your favorite stores.

You will have life insurance for your protection.

We offer you a Flexible Remuneration Plan in which you can choose from a variety of options, such as health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, transportation vouchers, training, and more.

With Club Schneider, you will enjoy special discounts at your favorite stores, restaurants, travel agencies, and other external services.

Participate in company-subsidized volunteer programs to contribute to our community and have a positive impact on your environment.

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Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!

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150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
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Client-provided location(s): Barcelona, Spain

Job ID: Schneider_Electric-https://careers.se.com/jobs/112657?lang=en-us

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-03-26T19:08:02