Technical Writer, Aptly Technology – $45.00 Per Hour
Technical Writer
Contract: Long term Managed Service
Location: Remote
Rate: $45/hr
Must Have Requirements:
- Experience with writing wikis/Troubleshooting Guides for Azure data services like Fabric, Cosmos DB, SQL DB, SQL MI, MYSQL, PostgreSQL.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating and writing various types of user documentation, including how-to guides, manuals, references, or instructions. This candidate should have strong communication skills which enable them to explain complicated concepts in a simple manner. This individual will also meet with customer representatives frequently in order to understand required content.
Responsibilities:
- Explain technical ideas in simple language
- Creating, developing, planning, writing, and editing technical documents including operational, instructional, maintenance, or troubleshooting procedures for various types of publication.
- Conduct interviews with engineers, technical staff, and stakeholders to gather data for documentation and research and synthesize technical information into manuals and/or web-based documents for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with the SMEs (subject matter experts) to ensure completeness and quality documentation.
- Apply judgement and expertise to recommend formats that meet technical and customer requirements
- Produce content that conforms to company documentation and quality assurance standards.
- Review and improve content, tools, and processes used for publishing
- Meet with customer representatives to establish technical specifications
- Create user documentation for a variety of material
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Writing (creating, developing, planning, writing & editing)
- Experience in the technology industry
- Experience with Content creation
- Experience writing troubleshooting documentation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to understand highly technical information
Preferred:
- Content Strategy & Architecture
- Privacy & Compliance: GDPR, CCPA
- Content Lifecycle, Knowledge Management, & Governance
- Knowledge Management Systems (Confluence, SharePoint)
- Technical Writing & Developer Documentation
- CMS Platforms: Contentful, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) , ADO, Jira
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Legal, Security, Engineering, Product)
- Data Classification & Metadata Governance
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $45.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance