Technical Writer
Themis Insight, LLC · Laurel, MD · 2 wk ago
MarketingFull-time
Description
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.
Essential Duties and 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.
Individual Capabilities/Experience Required
- 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.
Themis Insight has all the PERKS!
- 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