Technical Writer

Rbr-Technologies - Fort Meade, MD

Full-time

Fort Meade, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

RBR-Technologies is a small service-disabled veteran-owned information and technology business founded on the basic principle of delivering customer mission success. RBR-technologies prides itself on our commitment to mission success as exemplified by the trust our customers and contract partners place in us. From RBR's first employee to the present day, every team member has a passion for mission success. Since 2011, we have continued to employ the highest caliber of professionals whose success is attributed to the intelligence, dedication, and years of experience within many government organizations including the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). We are seeking a Technical Writer/Requirements Engineer to support our DCSA customer. Our specific work, which revolves around technology modernization for Industrial security, is an ongoing effort to add an analytic capability for industry partners and Government analysts that collects, stores, automates and centralizes information supporting risk analysis for entities in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). The candidate will support DCSA Industrial Security technology modernization by delivering data analytic services that will integrate with existing web application development to enhance and extract insights from specific commercial and government data. As part of the RBR PM NISS Engineering & Architecture Team, the Technical Writer/Requirements Engineer will be responsible for gathering and analyzing technical requirements and creating high-quality technical documentation for a variety of audiences, including end users, technical staff, and management. Responsibilities include gathering and organizing technical documentation after a thorough collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs), converting and disseminating complex documentation into easy language for multiple audiences, delivering technical manuals, maintaining migration plans, presentations, and online help systems, working with other writers to create knowledge management (KM) documentation for the project team, reviewing, editing and rewriting existing documentation for improvements, interfacing with multiple stakeholders to assess and understand the requirements to ensure that user stories are consistent and applicable across all products, and ensuring the project team has clear, consistent, and testable requirements documented in user stories and completion criteria.

Responsibilities

• Gathering and organizing technical documentation after thorough collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Converting and disseminating complex documentation into easy language for multiple audiences.
• Delivering technical manuals, maintaining migration plans, presentations, and online help systems.
• Working with other writers to create knowledge management (KM) documentation for the project team.
• Reviewing, editing, and rewriting existing documentation for improvements.
• Interfacing with multiple stakeholders to assess and understand the requirements to ensure that user stories are consistent and applicable across all products.
• Ensuring the project team has clear, consistent, and testable requirements documented in user stories and completion criteria.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance
• 4+ years of relevant experience in technical writing and/or requirements engineering
• Experience with various Microsoft technologies such as MS Office 2013 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and SharePoint
• Security + certification
• Demonstrated effective communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) in a collaborative environment.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and translate complex and highly technical ideas into clear and easy to understand concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisor, technical staff, and clients.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a team environment, take on multiple projects, work on tight deadlines, and be flexible in taking on and performing assignments as necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to perform duties that require close attention to detail.

Nice-to-haves

• Scaled Agile Operations
• Experience with the Atlassian Suite of tools to include JIRA & Confluence
• KM Platforms (SharePoint, MS Teams, Wiki tools) experience