Technical Writer

Job Title : Technical Writer

Location : Bellevue, WA

Duration : 6 Months

JOB DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for candidates who are ready to contribute to our vision of reinventing data warehousing with our innovative, cost-effective cloud solutions.

Join us to be part of the leading Data Cloud, enhancing our offerings from data pipelines to AI / ML capabilities.

Technical Writers work with a world-class team of engineers and architects to create product documentation for client’s industry-leading Data Cloud.

Working in a fast-paced and challenging environment, you experience the immediate and direct impact of your contributions as client delivers weekly releases to our rapidly growing base of global customers.

2-3 days in office is mandatory.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Create online guides, reference docs, and tutorials for technical audiences (SQL engineers, application developers, etc).
• Engage directly with product managers, software engineers, and UI designers to ensure all features, enhancements, and changes are fully documented.
• Work with release engineers and dev ops to deliver weekly product updates and documentation.

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE :

• 7+ years creating technical product documentation from scratch, as well as from specs.
• Strong familiarity with data ingestion / pipelines (ELT, streaming, etc.), storage (Iceberg, Data Lake, etc.), and transformation.
• Strong SQL and RDBMS skills (Oracle, Teradata, Redshift, SQL Server, etc); comfortable working with sample code.
• Strong familiarity with "Docs-as-Code" approach, specifically :
• Source code control using GIT for branching, content review and merging etc.
• Documentation languages such as RST, Markdown, etc. Preferably RST.
• Exposure to using and documenting one or more of the following areas :
• E-commerce products.
• Data and application marketplaces, including producers / providers, consumers, and marketplace listings.
• User interfaces (UI) and command line interfaces (CLI) technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of the content development lifecycle, including :
• Identifying and understanding the information needs of the audience.
• Gathering information, interviewing SMEs, and conducting research.
• Authoring, publishing, and managing online / web content.

Familiarity with :

• Security, access control, identity and access management (IAM), and data privacy / governance (OAuth, RBAC, SCIM, encryption, etc).
• Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, etc).
• Programming languages / APIs (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C# / .NET, etc).
• Big Data analytics, machine learning, and statistics (Spark, Scala, R, etc).
• CI / CD methodologies and technologies (Jenkins, Lambda, etc).
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