Technical Writer - London, United Kingdom - Aztec Group

Aztec Group

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Reporting to Technology Change Director
At the Aztec Group we credit our technology as one of the core ingredients to our award-winning outsourced solutions.

As part of its Five-Year Plan, Aztec has the ambition to be a market-leading alternative fund administrator that provides compelling client experiences, products, services.

These are exciting times across the group and significant growth, change, and investment make it a truly world class opportunity to help shape our organisation for the next stage of its journey.

To drive towards this ambition, we are looking for a Technical Writer to produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation that contributes to the overall effectiveness of our policies, procedures, and processes, and to develop instructions for the use of our IT systems and services.

The role of a Technical Writer is a new to Aztec and we are seeking someone who can help shape, refine, and develop this capability going forward.

Reporting to the Technology Change Director, you will be key member the Office of the CDO (Chief Digital Officer) working collaboratively with our Applications, Cloud, Service Delivery and Client Facing teams to make our products easier to use and our procedures and policies easier to follow.

You'll research and transform complex technical concepts, specifications, and procedures into high-quality software documentation that meets user needs.

You will provide modern Technical Writing expertise and your ability to evaluate and analyse information is second to none, helping people understand complicated instructions.

You will perform a key role within a highly skilled team and should offer exceptional communication skills, tenacity, enthusiasm, and consistent energy to drive high standards in our documentation.

The role will involve working co-operatively and consultatively with numerous senior stakeholders across the Group. The successful engagement and management of these stakeholders will be critical to success in the role. For our Tech teams, remote, flexible working is the norm, along with occasional trips to our other offices.

Key responsibilities:

Design, develop, review, and publish highquality technical documentation
Learn complex work from research, selflearning, training, and shadowing seniors, work under mínimal supervision on advanced, unstructured, and complex work, and seek limited guidance for resolving conflicts and delivering in sync with multiple teams
Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships both across Technology, the wider business, and senior stakeholders. Become a trusted advisor to client teams in the use of our products and services and help them achieve their clients' goals and needs
Champion and drive the role of the Technical Writer, developing the role, its remit and capability as part of the OCDO. Design, develop and implement its own contributing strategies to align with the goals of the team and department. Potential to grow the capability in the future, influencing resourcing needs and budget requirements
Improve the quality of content, adhere to the established standards and guidelines, and deliver on time, and design, develop, review, and publish highquality technical documentation
Obtain a deep understanding of products and services to translate complex information into simple, polished, and engaging content
Write userfriendly content that meets the needs of the target audience using language that positions our users for success
Develop and maintain detailed libraries of appropriate reference materials, including research, usability tests, and design specifications
Evaluate current content and develop innovative approaches for improvement
Develop content in alternative media forms for maximum usability, with a consistent and cohesive voice across all documentation
Write and edit technical documents such a procedural documentation, user guides and manuals. reference manuals, RFI/RFP responses, and product manuals
Determine the type of publication that will best serve the project requirements
Develop indepth knowledge of how our systems and products are being utilised across our business teams. Seeking ways to drive usability, adoption and efficiency through the development and creation of highquality procedural, user guides and technical documentation that is easy for our users to understand

Essential Skills:

5 years + experience working in a similar role as a technical writer / author
Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures
Experience documenting Standards and Policies (Security Standards, BCP/DR documentation, Application Development documentation)
Editing skills proofreading, content review, structure and style, tone of voice, technical vocabulary
Information Design visually and verbally represent information (including facts, graphs, statistics, tables, and figures) in the