Technical-Writer, Technical-Documentation, Technical-Communication Jobs

About Agile Defense

Job Description

• Responsible for creating clear, concise, and accurate documentation for products, services, or processes, often in high-tech or specialized fields.
• Involves translating complex information into user manuals, guides, help files, white papers, and training materials that are easily understandable by the target audience.
• Must have excellent writing skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to grasp intricate technical concepts quickly.
• Work closely with engineers, product developers, and subject matter experts to ensure the content's technical accuracy and relevance.
• Proficient with documentation tools, understanding of XML, DITA, or other markup languages, and familiarity with graphics and publishing software are often required. Update documentation as products evolve, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Education, Background and Years of Experience

Typically has a Bachelors degree, and 3 - 5 years of experience, or equivalent relevant work experience; e.g., each year of work experience may be substituted for each year of education required.

Required Skills

Develops and maintains clear, accurate technical documents, plans, procedures, reports, and deliverable packages supporting activities. Coordinates inputs from subject-matter experts and applies document-control and quality standards before submission.

Working Conditions

Remote/Work from home

Our Core Values

• Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy.Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble - Be Grounded.Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry - Be Eager.Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle - Be Driven.Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

Originally posted on Himalayas

• Develop, edit, and maintain technical documentation, program materials, implementation guides, white papers, literature summaries, SOPs, training materials, website content, fact sheets, etc.
• Collaborate with SMEs, clinicians, researchers, program managers, communications specialists, and federal stakeholders to gather information, validate accuracy, resolve comments, and align content with program goals.
• Design and maintain reusable content assets, including approved language libraries, evidence tables, FAQ banks, plain-language modules, executive-summary templates, audience-specific message maps, and review-ready document shells.
• Support content strategy, message development, stakeholder review cycles, version control, quality assurance, and document management across multiple concurrent deliverables.
• Work with project teams to define data flow between applications to be integrated, mapping business process activities to the application dependencies in collaboration with Product Owners, Architects, and technical resources. Additionally, perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Help coordinate design sessions, take notes during the design sessions, and conduct follow-up with stakeholders to close action items.
• Update technical documents based on design sessions, technical requirements, and/or stakeholder-provided documentation.
• Provide final documentation updates in preparation for formal deliverable submission.

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, journalism, or related field.
• Approximately five (5)+ years of professional writing, editing, or technical communications experience.
• Demonstrated ability to write accurately for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with structured content, content reuse, modular writing, metadata tagging, document templates, content-management systems, collaboration platforms, reference-management tools, and workflow automation.
• Ability to build repeatable writing workflows that reduce manual rework, improve consistency across products, and maintain audit-ready traceability from source evidence to final language.
• Comfort evaluating emerging tools for fit, risk, security, usability, accessibility, source traceability, federal stakeholder needs, and quality-control burden.
• Strong understanding of technical terminology, healthcare delivery systems, and health communications principles.
• Experience developing or editing technical reports, clinical guidance, educational materials, web content, program documentation, training content, or executive-level briefing materials.
• Exceptional command of grammar, structure, tone, plain language, and document organization.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple deliverables, deadlines, review cycles, and stakeholder inputs simultaneously.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and collaborative document review tools.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust

Compensation & Benefits

PFS offers a benefits package that may include health, dental, and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; a retirement plan; paid time off; and other programs to support employees and their families. Learn more about PFS Benefits.

The posted salary range is the company’s good-faith estimate for this role. PFS benefits and compensation are determined by various factors, including, but not limited to, location; the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience; as well as contract and organizational requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other status protected by law.

Accommodations

PFS is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at . Reasonable accommodations are available to ensure applicants with disabilities have equal access to the hiring process, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable laws.

Workplace Health, Safety, and Compliance

This position may be subject to client‑specific or government‑mandated vaccination, health, or safety requirements, which may change over time.

Texting Privacy Policy and Information:

• Message type: Informational; you will receive text messages regarding your application and potentially regarding interview scheduling.
• No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.
• Message frequency will vary depending on the application process.
• Msg & data rates may apply.
• Opt out at any time by texting "stop".

Originally posted on Himalayas

The Opportunity:
Are you ready to revolutionize financial auditability and transportation logistics? We're seeking a successful, experienced Technical Writer to join our team in implementing a cutting-edge software system that will transform how USTRANSCOM manages finances and supply chains.

If you're passionate about leveraging technology to streamline operations and enhance transparency, this is your chance to make a significant impact. Join us in building the future of financial and logistical management.


Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating and writing various types of user documents, including how-to guides, references, manuals, cheat sheets, or instructions.

Explain scientific and technical ideas in simple language.

Work with customers to translate their functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.

Responsible for creating and writing various types of user documentation, including how-to guides, references, manuals, cheat sheets, or instructions

Supports the engineering team with documentation for system components and engineering artifacts

Provide overall leadership of the technical writing tasks and serve as primary liaison to the government for supporting contract coordination and task execution

Process Owner for all technical documentation on the program including documentation produced by professional technical writers under management

Writes and edits technical documentation for all of the project’s hardware and software to include installation, configuration and how-to documentation

Creates code documentation for software; produces implementation guides and end-user guides for capabilities; provides field, data definition, and data flow documentation and formats technical publications from pamphlets, technical drawings, and consultations with technical personnel and other available resources

Prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing and user documentation.

Distill complex information into clear, concise text

Apply writing and grammar skills and delivers accurate documentation with under tight deadlines

Qualifications:

Required:

Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience in a technical or lead writing role (equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree)


Desired:

Proven ability to distill complex information into clear, concise text

Secret security clearance, or US citizen with ability to pass T1 investigation

Demonstrated excellent writing and grammar skills combined with ability to work independently and deliver accurate content under pressure and tight deadlines

Proven experience designing and delivering developer-oriented documentation as well as working directly with development teams

Experienced using multiple tools to develop base templates and manipulate output styles

Possess a thorough understanding of software development (SDLC), IC ITE, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and other key terminology in this PWS

Secret security clearance

Graduate degree in related area of study

Demonstrated expertise in migrating documentation to an automation-driven process

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.

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.

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:

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.

Originally posted on Himalayas