Technical Writer Job at CACI in Washington

CACI is searching for a Technical Writerto 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.

Be a part of something greater than yourself and make a lasting impact at CACI.

More About the Role

• 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.

• Responsible for creating and writing various types of user documentation, including how-to guides, references, manuals, cheat sheets, or instructions

• Supports the engineering team with documentation for system components and engineering artifacts

• Explain scientific and technical ideas in simple language

• Work with customers to translate their functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.

• 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

• 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

• Prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing and user documentation.

• Distill complex information into clear, concise text

• Apply writing and grammar skills and delivers accurate documentation with 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

• 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

You’ll Bring These Qualifications

• Proven ability to distill complex information into clear, concise text.

• Demonstrated excellent writing and grammar skills and ability to work independently and deliver accurate content under deadline pressure.

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

• 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 (SDLC), IC ITE, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and other key terminology in this PWS.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) with ability to obtain a polygraph.

These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have

• Demonstrated expertise in migrating documentation to an automation-driven process