Digital Accessibility Test Specialist — ICE AI​/Data Advisory; Contingent

• Washington, DC

Contingent on government contract award and funding.

Washington, DC is the opportunity-market location; actual work location and work model are to be determined.

Axyde Analytics, LLC is identifying experienced professionals for a proposed management and technical advisory team supporting its response to the ICE Enterprise AI, Data, and Technology Strategy/Architecture RFI (RFI-_Sep
2026). The proposed mission is to help ICE turn AI and data investments into measurable operational results: establish a baseline, assess alternatives and cost/risk, recommend decisions, build an executable plan and verify benefits. This is a pre-award talent search for potential work; an RFI is market research and does not establish an awarded contract or guaranteed position.

Provide hands-on accessibility evaluation for AI-enabled interfaces and workflows, with findings that support practical remediation and evidence-based acceptance decisions.

• Define accessibility test coverage for user journeys, including conversational interfaces and dynamic AI output.
• Perform manual, keyboard, assistive-technology and appropriate automated testing against applicable Section 508 requirements.
• Document reproducible defects, user impact, remediation recommendations and retest results.
• Work with engineering and assurance leads to make accessibility findings visible in release and acceptance decisions.
• Demonstrated digital accessibility testing, including manual and assistive-technology methods.
• Ability to interpret applicable Section 508 requirements and produce actionable, reproducible findings.
• Experience verifying remediation across complete user workflows.

• An existing redacted accessibility test report showing methods, findings and retest evidence.
• A walkthrough of an assistive-technology or keyboard-access issue and its user impact.

The RFI describes an existing STELLA environment spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, with Kubernetes and LLM/RAG capabilities, and a data environment integrating Databricks, Collibra, Mule Soft and Traceable. Its enterprise control plane, agentic orchestration/runtime and independent assurance layers are future-state concepts to be evaluated. Direct STELLA experience is preferred when lawfully demonstrable; comparable federal or regulated production experience is welcome.

No applicant is expected to master every listed product or all three clouds.

Contingent on government contract award and funding. Work location, work model, travel and access requirements will be determined by the scope and agency requirements. Start date, engagement structure, compensation and any paid work terms will be agreed before work begins. This posting represents a coverage function, not a promise of a separate full-time position. Candidates may cover multiple functions where experience, availability and independent-review requirements permit.