Technical Author

Our financial software client is looking for technical authors to join their established, friendly writing team, producing user, online help and technical documentation for their financial software products aimed at traders, hedge fund managers etc. These are initial 12 month contracts to start in March or April.

Skills and experience:

- Solid experience of producing and updating software documentation.
- The ability to quickly grasp complex technology.
- Familiarity with FrameMaker, and MadCap Flare or RoboHelp is important; experience in use of conditionalised text is useful, as this is used extensively in both help and PDF documents.
- Experience in any of the following areas:

HTML, XML, databases, Java, JMS, system admin. documentation.

- The willingness and ability to work using defined procedures and to a specified house style.
- The flexibility and willingness to change track as needed, to meet documentation requirements for minor releases and unplanned hot fix releases while still fulfilling scrum team obligations.
- The ability to work on your own initiative, as although working with other authors, the authoring team is a busy one and day-to-day work will be self-managed as part of Agile scrum teams, working with developers, testers, etc. mostly based elsewhere on a two-week scrum cycle.