Technical Writer / Documentation specialist

Technical Writer / Documentation

Experis is currently supporting a fast growing global company within technology for their search for Technical Writer/Documentation specialist in the Zurich region. If you want to work for a fantastic global company doing amazing things within the financial services industry, then please read on!

For this permanent role we are looking for a fluent English (German or other languages are a huge plus) technical specialist with a background of working within the financial services industry with several years of past experience writing technical documents.

The deliverables are as follows:

• Write professional technical documentation that can be easily understood by internal stakeholders and external clients with limited to advanced technical backgrounds.
• You will integrated into product teams where you will create and maintain documentation sets for projects
• Review, edit and maintain existing technical documents to comply with documentation standards and best practices.
• Define best practicecs, the guidelines and the documentation tooling which is to be used
• Provide guidance and support to the company's engineers in their documentation

Which specific background do you bring with you?

• Specific proven experience in writing technical documentation of software development for both internal and external stakeholders
• You are a techie and have some past experience designing software and enjoy coding on the side. This is a key part of the role as you have to understand the technologies.
• Writing experience with specifications and architecture documentation: you will have to provide samples of your work.
• You communicate clearly and can work well autonomously as well as within a team
• You excel working within a startup environment
• You are comfortable working with developer documentation tools and workflows where documentation is treated the same as source code
• Experience with Spinx, Markdown, Git is highly preferred
• Financial services experience is highly prefered

If you are immediately available for this exciting project in Zurich, please get in touch directly with Eric Schuster (+41 44 229 9937) or send him your CV and testimonials today through the link in the advert. We can only consider Swiss nationals or professionals possessing a valid EU passport for this engagement.

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