Technical Writer II

CACI•Laurel, MD

13h•Onsite

About The Position

CACI has an immediate opening for a skilled Technical Writer to join our mission critical team. As the selected Technical Writer, you 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.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance
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.
Six (6) years experience as a TW in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Four (4) years of additional TW experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of experience (or equivalent), and a minimum of five years in a technical or lead writing role.
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.

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.
Use documentation tools to develop templates and create output in various mediums.