Technical Writer

Technical Writer

Requirements

• Proven ability to distill complex information into clear, concise text.
• Demonstrated excellent writing and grammar skills and ability to work independently and deliver accurate content under deadline pressure.
• Bachelor’s Degree plus 7 years of experience (or equivalent), and a minimum of five years in a technical or lead writing role.
• Proven experience designing and delivering developer-oriented documentation as well as working directly with development teams.
• Experienced using multiple tools to develop base templates and manipulate output styles.
• Possess a thorough understanding of software development (SDLC), IC ITE, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and other key terminology in this PWS.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) with ability to obtain a polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and writing various types of user documents, including how-to guides, references, manuals, cheat sheets, or instructions.
• Explain scientific and technical ideas in simple language.
• Work with customers to translate their functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Responsible for creating and writing various types of user documentation, including how-to guides, references, manuals, cheat sheets, or instructions.
• Supports the engineering team with documentation for system components and engineering artifacts.
• Provide overall leadership of the technical writing tasks and serve as primary liaison to the government for supporting contract coordination and task execution.
• Process Owner for all technical documentation on the program including documentation produced by professional technical writers under management.
• Writes and edits technical documentation for all of the project’s hardware and software to include installation, configuration and how-to documentation.
• Creates code documentation for software; produces implementation guides and end-user guides for capabilities; provides field, data definition, and data flow documentation and formats technical publications from pamphlets, technical drawings, and consultations with technical personnel and other available resources.
• Prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing and user documentation.
• Distill complex information into clear, concise text.
• Apply writing and grammar skills and delivers accurate documentation with under tight deadlines.
• Experience designing and developing developer-oriented documentation and collaborating/working directly with developer teams.
• Use documentation tools to develop templates and create output in various mediums.
• Knowledge and understanding of SDLC, IC ITE, Risk Management Framework (RMF) and and/or PWS terminology.
• Manages experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments.
• Demonstrate innovative influence within a project that has impact and participation from multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in migrating documentation to an automation-driven process