Senior Technical Writer

Function

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

Job Title

Senior Technical Writer

Job Description

Hitachi Vantara is one of the global leaders of data-driven solutions for commercial and industrial enterprises. Within the Technical Publications group, our goal is to provide an information experience that allows our users to quickly and easily learn and use our products. Easy-to-follow user documentation, including contextual help, videos, and digital media, is a big part in our user’s learning, and we’re constantly transforming the way our customers view content by investing in researching content consumer preferences and latest content delivery and digital media technology trends.

We’re looking for a highly motivated information developer to work with our Storage Management Software group to create product documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Confer with subject matter experts including Software Developers, Product Managers, Support, and Sales to establish technical specifications and use cases to determine subject matter to be developed for publication.
• Research, gather, and analyze data from multiple sources (subject matter experts, product managers) to develop content.
• Develop information development and publishing strategies aligned with the department standards as well as to meet project-specific requirements by consulting with the Technical Publications leadership team and the cross-functional product team.
• Develop world-class product information with simple and concise English by organizing ideas and translating complex technical terms into information any reader (both native and non-native English readers) can understand.
• Clarifying terminology and work with software developers for achieve consistencies in the product and documentation.
• Participate in product design reviews. Review product design and UI and revise UI messages.
• Manage and lead multiple assignments simultaneously, while working independently and with other writers.
• Complete writing assignments according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
• Proactively seek solicit feedback from internal and external readers. Analyze and prioritize technical feedback from various audiences and drive necessary changes into documentation or products. 

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or any engineering field.
• Superb interpersonal communication skills, particularly where technical information must be conveyed in a clear way.
• Strong technical aptitude to learn products by hands-on experience.
• Must have excellent writing skills, 15 + years of experience in software documentation, online publishing, online help development, API documentation, installation and user guides, release notes.
• Proven technical writing and editing skills. Superior command of the English language including rules and usage
• Experience with API tools, such as Swagger.
• Proficiency in DITA, XML, and Adobe Acrobat is a must.
• Proficiency in SDL Tridion Docs or another Component Content Management System (CCMS) is a must.
• Strong understanding of topic-based authoring and reusable information architecture is a must.
• Experience with agile software development process and tools, such as JIRA and Confluence is a must.
• Experience with video creation is a plus. 

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About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.