About this opportunity:
We are now looking for a Senior Technical Writer to join our team.
Are you the person who wants to take the opportunity to shape the future of technology, working in the End to End Product Information team? This team consists of experienced technical writers creating and updating product information for Network Management and Orchestration products. In this role you will work as a Product Information Guardian and a Senior Technical Writer ensuring that your products information delivered is of sufficient quality.
This is a hybrid position (3 days at Athlone office, 2 days at home) based at our Ireland Athlone Office.
What you will do:
Under minimal supervision, the candidate is required to:
- Guardian of the product information for your product:
o Working with other technical writers and developers on ensuring standards and best practice compliance, which includes coaching and promoting awareness
o Driving quality to ensure a high level of quality in deliverables
o Recommending reuse strategies
o Proactively seeking feedback from end users.
- Create and update existing documentation including API guides and online help
- Collaborate with subject matter experts and scrum teams to gather required information for technical documentation.
- Maintain content for and manage multiple projects simultaneously; learn the products and work as an integral part of the product team
- Maintain an understanding of best practices, current technologies, trends, and business strategies.
- Organize content-based initiatives among global team members in Europe, India, and North America while remaining sensitive to differences stemming from culture, policy, and politics.
- Coordinate document reviews with the appropriate development and test teams
- Manage and close documentation bugs in a timely manner.
- Serve as the gatekeeper for any content coming into the system:
o Works collaboratively with the content development managers, writers, and editors to inform and refine the content model to support customer and product requirements.
o Defines guidelines for organizing and labeling topics, defines the appropriate level of content chunking, and oversees content contributions to ensure consistent structure.
- Defines and administers a clear submission process to encourage writers to improve the user help.
- Proven Fluency in written and spoken English
- Experience in technical writing, preferably within the telecommunication and software sector
- Coaching and mentoring experience
- Driving efficiency and quality improvements
- Experience authoring and managing technical software documentation
- Proven Expertise in developing structured and reusable content using DITA and a CMS
- Understanding of data modeling (conceptual, logical and physical), understanding of semantic modelling and graph databases
- Experience working in a continuous deployment and Agile environment where content needs to be updated regularly and rapidly
- Knowledge of telecoms, project management, confluence, JIRA and user interface design experience are a plus.
- Ability to foster and maintain communication with subject matter experts and collaborate with content strategists and development teams to effectively collate content matter.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and active engagement in emerging trends in this domain.
- Experience with markup languages such as HTML, XML, and Markdown
- Experience with version control systems, such as Git, is an advantage.
- Relevant Degree in related field
Why join Ericsson?
At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply?
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Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: Ireland (IE) || Athlone
Req ID: 757735
