Technical Writer Job Category: Engineering and Technical Support Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Local * * * **The Opportunity:** Join our team as a Technical Writer and play a pivotal role in producing clear, concise, and accurate technical documentation. Your expertise will ensure the technical integrity and consistency of deliverables, including user manuals, guides, white papers, and design specifications. If you’re driven by precise communication and elevating the quality of complex technical content, we want to meet you. **Responsibilities:** + As a Technical Writer, you will produce clear, concise, and accurate technical and programmatic documentation, including user manuals, guides, white papers, design specifications, and proposals. + You will gather information, interview subject matter experts (SMEs), and conduct research to convey technical material effectively. + Your excellent communication skills will be essential in crafting the customer’s message/requirements and coordinating across the enterprise. + You will ensure the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables, preparing, reviewing, revising, and maintaining technical documents for software and systems engineering, system operations, testing, and user documentation. + Additionally, you will create code documentation, implementation guides, end-user guides, and field, data definition, and data flow documentation. Responsibilities: + Research and gather information from engineering drawings, specifications, logs, and SME interviews, synthesizing into clear, audience-appropriate documents aligned to standards. + Translate engineering artifacts into accurate procedures, system descriptions, and interface specifications. + Prepare and maintain operations documentation, user guides, manuals, technical publications, reports, briefs, and white papers for internal and external audiences. + Plan document structure and coordinate layout/design, applying templates and style guides for consistency and readability. + Develop and maintain documentation templates, style guides, and frameworks, enforcing consistent adoption across deliverables. + Create visual aids, diagrams, and flowcharts, integrating graphics/media using Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and Adobe tools. + Maintain and govern the documentation library, ensuring version control, clear taxonomy, and up-to-date content. + Ensure compliance with accessibility (Section 508/WCAG), formatting, branding, and quality standards, leading edits and peer reviews through sign-off. + Select appropriate media and formats for publication, coordinating production and delivery, including government deliverables. + Align documentation with product updates by collaborating with product managers, engineers, QA, support, and program leadership. **Qualifications:** _Required:_ + BA/BS degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university. + Minimum of five (5) years of technical writing experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. Four (4) years of additional technical writing experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. + Strong technical writing and research skills. + Proficiency with authoring and publishing tools and advanced formatting and template design: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe, Photoshop. + Experience with desktop/electronic publishing workflows and digital content management. + Experience with document lifecycle and repository management tools (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence). + Knowledge of document structure, logic flow, readability, and accessibility best practices (e.g., Section 508/WCAG). + Ability to interpret engineering drawings, maintenance procedures, and system design documentation; comfortable with software, networking, and systems engineering terminology. + Experience documenting and applying data governance policies, including metadata standards, data quality, access, retention, and privacy. + Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders. + Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail. + Must be a US citizen with an active Top Secret/SCI DoD Security clearance with polygraph. _Desired:_ + Knowledge of ITSM frameworks (e.g., ITIL) and application to support/operations documentation. + Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) environments to align documentation with iterative releases. + Understanding of compliance and audit documentation standards and evidence requirements. + Familiarity with markup/structured authoring languages (e.g., HTML, XML, Markdown). + Familiarity with the software development lifecycle, including planning, requirements management, configuration management, quality assurance, and release management. This position is contingent on funding and may not be filled immediately. However, this position is representative of positions within CACI that are consistently available. Individuals who apply may also be considered for other positions at CACI. **________________________________________________________________________________________** **What You Can Expect:** **A culture of integrity.** At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation. **An environment of trust.** CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality. **A focus on continuous growth.** Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy. **Your potential is limitless.** So is ours. Learn more about CACI here. (https://careers.caci.com/global/en/life-at-caci) **________________________________________________________________________________________** **Pay Range** : There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here (https://careers.caci.com/global/en/employee-benefits) . Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position. The proposed salary range for this position is: $61,600-$129,300 _CACI is_ _an Equal Opportunity Employer._ _All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any_ _other protected characteristic._