Technical WriterProcom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest "Canadian-Owned" IT staffing/consulting company. Procom's areas of staffing expertise include:• Application Development • Project Management • Quality Assurance • Business/Systems Analysis • Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence • Infrastructure & Network Services • Risk Management & Compliance • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery • Security & Privacy Specialties:• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation) • Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation) • ICAP (Contractor Payroll) • Flextrack (Vendor Management System)Job DescriptionWe are looking for experienced technical writers.
You will help us launch new, state-of-the-art wearable devices and platforms, including augmented reality, fitness coaching, and other comprehensive wearable technologies. As Senior Technical Writer you will work directly with our product, design and test teams to develop engineering documentation for building and using the most innovative wearable products. You will be working with enthusiastic and experienced peers in an environment that facilitates delivering industry-leading solutions with both creative-edge and high quality.Create clear and concise technical documentation to accompany the latest innovations in the wearable technology.Design user guides, platform architecture overviews, public API programming guides, public Web Portal user guides, Business Intelligence (BI) user guides, SDK development tutorials and other engineering documentation for the company's new wearable platform and products.Manage large and complex documentation projects, collaborate with senior engineers and program managers to create content.Contributing to platform cloud specifications.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and document new features.Showcase rich functionality and diversity of the newest wearable devices.Collaborating with remote global teams, including device, application, test, etc.
to innovate new technologies with maximum development efficiency.QualificationsBA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience3-5 years of experience writing technical publications for a Portals/SDKs and public web servicesProven track record of researching and writing effective technical documentationAbility to work with engineering teams as part of the software development processAbility to understand RESTful web services using JSON or XMLAbility to read and understand source code written in Java, Swift and/or NodeJSStrong collaboration and project management skillsExperience working directly within a software development team, including extensive interaction with senior engineers and software architectsAbility to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environmentYou have a strong portfolio demonstrating prior work and experiences creating technical documentationProficiency with HTML and CSSExperience working in Agile environment, knowledge of Scrum-based methodologiesKnowledge of Android and/or iOS mobile platformsKnowledge of web application UX/UI technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)Knowledge of Atlassian Confluence and JIRAFamiliarity with version control systems, such as GitMaster's Degree or another advanced degree is preferredAdditional InformationBy clicking the link above or any third-party link within this posting, you are leaving this site and going to a third-party website where the third-party website's terms and privacy policy applyI'm interested