Technical Writer 2
Wyetech•Laurel, MD
•$38 - $71
About The Position
The Tech Writer will join a worldwide engineering, operations, and tech refresh contract supporting Enterprise IT (EIT) capabilities and functions for our Intelligence Community (IC) customer. As a team, we will be responsible for operations, future technologies, engineering and Tier 2/3 support, break/fix, and tech refresh activities to develop and maintain agency wide capabilities on a global basis. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).
Requirements
- TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
- Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of experience (or equivalent), and a minimum of five years in a technical or lead writing role.
- Ability to distill complex information into clear, concise text.
- Excellent writing and grammar skills and ability to work independently and deliver accurate content under deadline pressure.
- 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, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and other key terminology on this contract.
- Knowledge and understanding of SDLC, IC ITE, Risk Management Framework (RMF) and and/or PWS terminology.
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.
- 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.
- Prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing and user documentation.
- Apply writing and grammar skills and delivers accurate documentation 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.
- Manages experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments.
Benefits
- Company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching.
- All contributions are fully vested from day one.
- Generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually.
- Flexibility to adjust PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year.
- Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Vision and Dental
- Life and AD&D Benefits
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances
- Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
