Technical Writer

Themis Insight • Laurel, MD

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Technical 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Manages experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments

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.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision plans with 100% paid premiums.
• 401k: We contribute 6% even if you don't!
• Time Off: 11 standard holidays, and 25 days of PTO
• Career Development: Get career counseling and individualized career development plans, including education and training.
• Employee referral bonuses for successful hires

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior