Senior Technical Writer

Senior Technical Writer Our award-winning and highly successful global technology client is looking for a technical author to join their technical publications team. You'll have a proactive approach and a real appetite and enthusiasm for learning cutting-edge technology and developing new skills. Working as part of a coordinated team, you will:Research, plan and write a range of user-centric technical content for customers' developers and engineers. Improve the clarity and consistency of the technical documentation ensuring it complies with corporate and technical communications standards, and that departmental processes are followed. Be a technical content advocate.
As the successful candidate you will have:Good experience as a technical author in a technology or engineering environment. A technical software and/or hardware background, writing for different, highly technical target audiences. Software background: Experience producing technical software documentation for developers, engineers or architects and/or programming experience. (Familiarity with programming languages/concepts will help to understand incoming/outgoing signals, state diagrams, memory and caching etc.)Hardware background: Familiarity with the fundamentals of computer architecture, microprocessors, basic electronics, System-on-Chip (SoC), Embedded electronics.The ability to apply logical thinking and grasp technical concepts.The ability to write abstract concepts and building technical understanding without the ability to do hands-on' testing.Good knowledge of industry standard tools, technologies, and content management systems.Experience with Markdown, HTML, XML/DITA, Jenkins, Git, JSON, Python or a similar Scripting language.A detail-oriented approach.An understanding of the interaction between software and hardware is useful.
Any experience of user journeys/personas would be a huge advantage A stimulating working environment is on offer, as is a competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is a hybrid-working role where you will need to be onsite 20% of the month in one of the following office locations: Cambridge, Manchester, Sheffield or Galway.