Senior Technical Writer
SimCorp
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Noida • India
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About the role
- Research, create, and maintain clear and easy-to-find user documentation in several formats at high quality and without supervision, according to our standards and guidelines, to ensure that users can work efficiently.
- Join 4 or more agile teams in their ceremonies, such as stand-ups and sprint reviews, to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of our agile user documentation processes.
- Collaborate and communicate clearly and reliably with engineering, product management, and other stakeholders to gather technical information and ensure the documentation meets user needs.
- Develop user guides, release notes, API documentation, system architecture documents, and other materials and content to support software deployment and usage.
- Review and edit existing documentation to improve readability, accuracy, and consistency.
- Maintain documentation to reflect new product and service features, updates, and best practices.
- Comply with documentation standards and processes, ensuring consistency across all technical content.
- Promote best practices in technical writing and ensure continuous skill development.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and tools in technical writing, applying new techniques to improve documentation processes and quality.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in technical communication about product and service platforms in a software development organisation
- Proficient in speaking and writing in English
- Practical experience with topic-based authoring in a structured authoring environment
- It’s a plus if you have practical experience working In a financial environment
- In an agile environment
- In a DevOps or Continuous Delivery environment
- With git
- With MadCap Flare
Benefits
- Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
- Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
- Self-Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
- Inclusive and diverse company culture
- Work-life balance – We believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of ourselves, both in private life and as colleagues in the workplace
- Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
technical communicationtopic-based authoringstructured authoringuser documentationAPI documentationsystem architecture documentsrelease noteseditingdocumentation standardsbest practices in technical writing
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationreliabilityefficiencyeffectivenesscontinuous skill development