Communications and Technical Writer Team Lead

Leidos

Communications and Technical Writer Team Lead for Managed Infrastructure Service Provider contract at CMS. Leading a technical writing team to deliver high-quality documentation and communications.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $65,650 - $118,675 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in technical writing, team leadership, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality documentation. Proficient in utilizing documentation tools and ensuring compliance with quality standards while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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Technical Writing LeadershipDocumentation DevelopmentConfluence ProficiencyTeam MentoringPublic Trust Clearance

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Hard Skills

Technical WritingResearchingAnalyzingOrganizingTranslating Technical InformationDocumentation ManagementPlain Language PrinciplesSection 508 ComplianceContent DevelopmentProject Scope Definition

Soft Skills

CollaborationCustomer-Centric AttitudeOrganizational SkillsPresentation SkillsCommunication Skills

Tools & Technologies

ConfluenceJiraContentfulMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft Office

Industry Keywords

Technical DocumentationTraining MaterialsKnowledge ArticlesCustomer CommunicationsProgram Quality Standards

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a team of technical writers supporting multiple product teams, ensuring balanced workload distribution, timely delivery of high-quality documentation, and escalation of risks or issues as needed.
Partner with engineers, developers, architects, and subject matter experts to gather, analyze, and synthesize complex technical information into high-quality training materials, technical documentation, and customer communications.
Serve as the primary technical writing lead, collaborating with customers, clients, program leadership, and cross-contract teams to define project scope, communication strategies, reporting requirements, and documentation priorities.
Develop and oversee the creation of technical briefs, web articles, training materials, knowledge articles, and technical documentation using Confluence, Jira, Contentful, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint.
Champion plain language principles and ensure all written content is accurate, engaging, Section 508 compliant, and aligned with program quality standards.
Establish documentation priorities, coordinate work assignments across the technical writing team, and monitor deliverables to ensure customer commitments are met.
Represent the program during customer meetings, technical reviews, presentations, and executive readouts, providing recommendations, documenting decisions, and communicating project status.
Foster a collaborative, customer-focused environment while mentoring team members and promoting continuous improvement of documentation processes and standards.
Demonstrate a positive, customer-centric, "can do" attitude while building trusted relationships across engineering, program, and customer organizations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in English, Technical Writing, Journalism, Communications, or a related discipline with 6+ years of technical writing experience supporting programs or contracts of similar scope, complexity, and technical depth.
Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating technical writing teams, assigning work, mentoring team members, and ensuring successful delivery of multiple concurrent documentation efforts, preferred.
Proven ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, development, product management, customer, and cross-functional teams.
Strong experience researching, analyzing, organizing, and translating complex technical information into clear, concise documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, competing deadlines, and customer expectations in a fast-paced environment.
Experience developing documentation using tools such as Confluence, Jira, Contentful, Microsoft Office, or comparable documentation platforms.
Excellent written, verbal, organizational, and presentation skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior to be considered.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid Time Off (PTO) accrued based on Leidos policy, up to 3 weeks a year.
Eleven (11) paid holidays per year.
Access to benefits on day one including medical and dental insurance, 401K, Life, AD&D, Voluntary Disability plans.
Ongoing training to support your success.
Tuition reimbursement based on Leidos policy.
Discounted Leidos stock purchase and other Employee Discounts.