Salary : $72,264.00 - $89,976.00 Annually
Location : Denver Metro, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: QAA 00176 08.06.2026
Department: Department of Early Childhood
Opening Date: 08/07/2026
Closing Date: 8/23/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Type of Announcement: This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address: 710 S. Ash Street, Denver, CO 80246
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Description of Job
Class Code & Class Description:
H1C4XX Analyst IV

This position resides within the Business Operations team and serves as the agency's primary operational lead for IT Accessibility. This role's critical purpose is to champion a user-centric approach to digital equality by ensuring all technology assets are fully accessible. The position accomplishes this through the creation and maintenance of enterprise-wide accessibility governance, policy, and operational frameworks. Additionally, this role oversees vendor and platform procurement for compliance, conducts rigorous accessibility monitoring, and leads enterprise-wide training and education efforts to ensure CDEC's digital portfolio is sustainable, scalable, and legally compliant with all ADA and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
What you'll be doing:

• Conduct continuous compliance monitoring, tracking, & reporting on the overall health of the digital portfolio to ensure accessibility is achieved & maintained.
• Define and execute accessibility audits (automated and manual) across websites, CRM platforms (e.g. Salesforce), Learning Management Systems (e.g. Cornerstone), and other platforms and/or applications.
• Establish operational objectives that include quantitative and qualitative data to monitor the technology application's success in meeting accessibility goals.
• Create, document, and maintain comprehensive IT accessibility governance, standards, and policies for the entire CDEC digital portfolio.
• Create and maintain an operational framework to ensure enterprise-wide accessibility is sustainable, scalable, and legally compliant.
• Drive the agency's digital portfolio into compliance with all ADA WCAG 2.1 A/AA (or current) requirements by integrating accessibility into the core Business Operations technology infrastructure.
• Serve as the primary authority of website and application accessibility. If/when WCAG standards are updated, be proactive to ensure full understanding of the impacts and steps needed to maintain full compliance.
• In partnership with the agency's Policy & Legislation team, monitor, track, and operationalize updates to accessibility requirements, standards, and/or policies. Position will be responsible for translating technical requirements into business requirements for different audiences across the agency.
• Analyze the current state of CDEC's digital portfolio through the lens of accessibility & make recommendations on the future state of portfolio based on their analysis, BITS goals, OIT requirements, Product vision, and CDEC strategy.
• Promote the adoption of modern, accessible technology standards & practices through teaching, coaching, and knowledge sharing across CDEC.
• Develop documentation, user guides, and self-help resources for internal staff and product users.
• Ensure that training & education methods minimize the burdens of time, technology, administration, & cognitive overhead for our users.
• Create, implement, & iterate a training and education experience (training materials, technology environment, hardware, and/or software) that achieves the targeted outcomes.
• This position will collaborate and work closely with the EDIA team.
• Create, foster, & champion an Agile environment at all times across the entire portfolio
• Ensure 3rd party applications meet CDEC's accessibility and ADA/WCAG standards prior to acquisition, implementation, and deployment.
• Collaborative, harmonious accessibility oversight of the software development life cycles (SDLC) through intentional planning, design, & strategy
• Position will drive Agile procurement decisions towards adaptable technology solutions that are accessible, simple, lightweight, out-of-the-box, and sustainable.
• Target Agile, iterative solutions that provide achievable, sustainable, & rational outcomes between the Current State and the planned Future State.
• Consistently and continuously drive technology decisions towards long-term accessibility, technological sustainability, & financial sustainability and away from inaccessible, customized, legacy-based, quick-fix, complex solutions
• Conduct systemic analyses of existing infrastructure and identify enhancement opportunities that prioritize simplifying, rationalizing, optimizing, and streamlining.
• Manage business partner expectations regarding opportunities and limitations of vendors and providers concerning accessible design. This will require the ability to translate in both directions - from business to technical and technical to business. This role will require the ability to translate various, non-technical input into technical requirements as well as the ability to translate clearly and understandably any technical concerns or issues raised to non-technical stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Special requests and projects involving CDEC technology applications
• Review and recommend new or revised internal operating processes and procedures.
• Participate on various committees, training events, special projects, and focus groups, including activities to maintain current knowledge of developments in the relevant profession. Represent CDEC on various standing or ad hoc committees.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience Only:
Seven (7) years digital technology experience that must include:

• 1+ years of demonstrated experience in comprehending, implementing, managing, and updating American Disability Act (ADA) and Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 or 2.2 A/AA, and the United States Web Design System (USWDS)
• 2+ years of experience in accessibility roles such as Analyst, Remediation Specialist, Accessibility Lead, including direct experience with a diverse population of end users
• 3+ years of experience in enterprise-level Software as a Service (SaaS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and web tool management

OR

Education and Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Software, or Technology AND three (3) years of relevant experience that must include:

• 1+ years of demonstrated experience in comprehending, implementing, managing, and updating American Disability Act (ADA) and Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 or 2.2 A/AA, and the United States Web Design System (USWDS)

• 1+ years of experience in accessibility roles such as Analyst, Remediation Specialist, Accessibility Lead, including direct experience with a diverse population of end users
• 1+ years of experience in enterprise-level Software as a Service (SaaS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and web tool management

Please note: The required experience must be substantiated within the work experience section of your application and in the supplemental questions. Your resume will not be reviewed to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications; only the work experience section and supplemental questions of your application will be reviewed to determine this. "See Resume" statements on the application will not be accepted. In addition, part-time work will be prorated.

Substitutions:

• Additional appropriate experience will substitute for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis.
• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred qualifications:

• Direct experience working with Technology Operations, Technology Service, Technology Development, and Product teams
• Demonstrated career background & experience in supporting cloud platforms, SaaS, HCM, LMS, Web Site Front End Design
• Demonstrated experience implementing mobile-forward, green digital design principles
• Demonstrated experience in modernizing a digital portfolio to achieve artificial intelligence (AI) optimization
• Demonstrated experience in document remediation along with remediation prioritization and planning
• Secondary Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field
• Experience communicating and participating in an Agile software development life cycle (SDLC) with a significant emphasis on the user interface (UI) and user experience (UI)
• Demonstrated ability to create, monitor, and respond to UI/UX metrics and user behavior
• Experience communicating and participating in an Agile software development life cycle (SDLC) with a significant emphasis on the user interface (UI) and user experience (UI)
• Agile, iterative, product-forward, user-centric mindset. Demonstrated ability to prioritize efficiency, rationality, sustainability, & interoperability of applications, platforms, and/or syste