Senior Design System Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Design System Engineer with 5+ years of experience in front-end development and design system engineering. In this role, you will help evolve and maintain the Lexicon Design System by building scalable, reusable, and accessible components that enable consistent user experiences across enterprise applications.

In this role, you will

• Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable web and mobile components within the Lexicon Design System, ensuring consistency, scalability, and quality across applications.
• Partner with UX designers, accessibility specialists, and engineering teams to translate designs into accessible, production-ready components that meet business and user needs.
• Drive accessibility compliance by identifying, troubleshooting, and remediating issues in alignment with WCAG standards and best practices.
• Ensure component reliability and performance through automated testing, cross-browser compatibility validation, and continuous quality improvements, with particular focus on Safari and macOS environments.

• Create documentation, implementation guidance, and development standards while supporting adoption of the design system across product teams.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 4 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Toronto, Ontario. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you need to have to be considered

• 5+ years of professional front-end development experience building modern web applications and user interfaces.
• Strong expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, along with experience using modern front-end frameworks and development practices.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, and scaling reusable component libraries or enterprise design systems.
• Deep understanding of accessibility principles and hands-on experience implementing WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2 standards.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility testing methodologies, remediation practices, and inclusive design principles.
• Experience resolving complex cross-browser compatibility challenges, particularly within Safari and macOS environments.
• Ability to translate Figma designs into scalable, maintainable, and production-ready components.
• Experience creating automated tests to ensure component quality, accessibility compliance, and regression prevention.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform effective root-cause analysis.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

These will help you stand out

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise design systems used across multiple products or business units.
• Familiarity with design tokens, component governance models, and design system adoption strategies.
• Experience conducting accessibility audits and leading remediation initiatives.
• Knowledge of responsive design principles, mobile-first development, and performance optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience working closely with UX design teams to ensure design-to-code consistency.
• Experience developing developer tooling, documentation frameworks, or component showcases that improve adoption and developer experience.
• Understanding of design system architecture, versioning strategies, and release management processes.
• Familiarity with modern testing tools and frameworks used for accessibility, visual regression, and cross-browser testing.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.

Total compensation

We regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between $81,500 – 95,500 per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) est un AI Builder et une entreprise de services numériques (ESN) élaborant des solutions complètes d’IA maximisant les investissements pour des résultats concrets. Sa profonde expertise des métiers, des processus et des technologies lui permet d’intégrer dans les systèmes technologiques le contexte unique de chaque organisation de l’ingénierie à la production à l’échelle. Son objectif: améliorer l’efficacité des équipes, créer de la valeur et permettre aux grandes entreprises de rester performantes dans un monde qui évolue rapidement. Pour en savoir plus: cognizant.ai ou @cognizant. 

À savoir avant de postuler

• Autorisation de travail: Cognizant ne prendra en considération que les candidats à ce poste qui sont légalement autorisés à travailler au Canada sans avoir besoin d'un parrainage de l'employeur, aujourd'hui ou à l'avenir.
• Mesures d’adaptation: Si vous avez un handicap qui nécessite des mesures d’adaptation raisonnable pour effectuer une recherche d’emploi ou poser une candidature, veuillez envoyer un courriel à [email protected] avec votre demande et vos coordonnées.
• L’IA dans notre processus de recrutement: Nous utilisons des outils d'intelligence artificielle (IA) pour trier et évaluer les candidatures efficacement. Notre équipe examine ensuite les candidatures et décide qui passe à l’étape suivante.
• Poste à pourvoir: Sauf indication contraire, ce poste est actuellement vacant et nous cherchons à le pourvoir.
• Exigences linguistiques: Nous demandons à tous les candidats de posséder une connaissance de base de l’anglais afin de faciliter les communications internes. Pour les postes au Québec, la capacité à communiquer efficacement en anglais est requise car vous fournirez des services à et collaborerez avec des parties prenantes anglophones situées hors de la province.
• Inclusion: Cognizant est un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Votre candidature et votre dossier ne seront pas examinés en fonction de la race, de la couleur, du sexe, de la religion, des croyances, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'identité de genre, de l'origine nationale, du handicap, des renseignements génétiques, de la grossesse, du statut d'ancien combattant ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois fédérales, provinciales ou locales.