Senior Technical Writer

Responsibilities

• Prepares and maintains operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications
• 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

Requirements

• Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), responsible for writing technical copy for various types of documents
• Gather technical information, prepares written text
• Maintain a current internal documentation library
• Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.
• Work with developers to produce quality documentation and training materials
• Work on all phases of documentation
• Interpret engineering and maintenance drawings, operational procedures to understand and blend large quantities of computer related information
• Apply concepts for technical writing based on engineering drawings, technical information from engineering documentation, consultations with engineers and subject matter experts, and other available sources
• Apply technical manual standard NSA DS-89 to work products

Qualifications

• Six (6) years experience as a Technical Writer 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 Technical Writer experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
• An active security clearance with polygraph