Sr Technical Writer

Company : CACI
Location : Columbia, MD, 21044
Posted Date : 3 October 2025
Job Type : Other
Category : Information Design & Documentation
Occupation : Technical Writer
Job Details
Sr Technical Writer
The Sr. Technical Writer will work within the Network Security Implementation and Sustainment (NSIS) Services, and will prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing, and user documentation.
Responsibilities:
- The candidate will write and edit technical documentation for all the project's hardware and software to include installation configuration and how-to documentation.
- Creates code documentation for software and will produce implementation guides and end-user guides for capabilities.
- Will provide field, data definition, and data flow documentation and formats technical publications from pamphlets, technical drawings and consultations with technical personnel and other available resources.
Qualifications:
- Assist in preparing and maintaining operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications.
- Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), responsible for writing technical copy for various types of documents.
- Gather technical information, prepares written text.
- Maintain a current internal documentation library.
- Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.
- Prepare and maintain operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications.
- Work with developers to produce quality documentation and training materials.
- Coordinate layout and design of documents.
- Work on all phases of documentation.
- Understand basic concepts and write technical copy for various types of documents for a program/project of similar complexity.
- Prepare reports, responses, and briefings targeted to a wide range of audiences.
- Coordinate layout and design of documents.
- Research highly technical subject matter, organizes information from multiple sources, and express technical information in written form that is comprehensible to a wide audience of readers.
- Apply concepts for technical writing based on engineering drawings, technical information from engineering documentation, consultations with engineers and subject matter experts, and other available sources.
- Produce defense acquisition documentation, user manuals, training manuals, and other documentation utilized by the end-user community of DoD electronic equipment and systems.
- Interpret engineering and maintenance drawings, operational procedures to understand and blend large quantities of computer related information.
- Produce technical documentation for Cryptologic programs or projects developing analytic tradecraft methodologies.
- Provide expert oversight of technical writing and editing to all phases of acquisition and technical documentation for the program, project, or contract.
- Work independently preparing and maintaining highly complex systems, programming and operations documentation, procedures and methods.
- Act as project leader for projects with complex or voluminous documentation and provide or coordinate special documentation services as required.
Education and Experience:
- Six (6) years experience as a Technical Writer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
- A Master's degree in a technical or business discipline may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, reducing the requirement to six (6) years.
- Five (5) years of additional TW experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
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