Position: Technical Writer
Company: Simcorp
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

We are a team of passionate technical writers committed to creating high-quality, user-centric documentation for our investment management solutions and services. We continuously develop and improve our own content management policies and procedures. Our supportive team spirit, buddy programs, and peer processes ensure that we technical writers can efficiently work together towards our common goals.


We expect you to be comfortable working across our agile teams: You will collaborate with a variety of stakeholders like development teams and product owners to gather information and create structured, consistent content for successful user assistance that drives business outcomes.


Development teams and the user documentation team are located in Kyiv, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and London, so you will be working in an international environment with virtual collaboration on a daily basis.

**Your role**

As Technical Writer, you know how to work effectively and independently. You will:

Design, create, and maintain structured user assistance for international financial professionals, for example, user manuals, release notes, context-sensitive help, tooltips, and GUI labels.
Collaborate with software engineers and product owners on agile teams to plan and manage documentation deliverables.
Contribute to the professional development of the user assistance community of practice.
Help to define and improve user documentation strategy and procedures with the technical writer team.
 
**Your qualifications**

Relevant experience in technical communication in a software development organisation
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Practical experience in topic-based authoring
Experience working to standards in a structured authoring environment
Experiences in working in agile and from the financial industry are plusses; if you don’t have them, we will bring you up to speed

**If you come work with us as a Technical Writer, we will**

Welcome you to an awesome team of 15 technical writers
Pair you with an experienced writer to help you develop and refine your technical writing skills
Empower you to design, research, and produce technical content of your own
Show you how to succeed with a sophisticated content management tool chain
Support your professional development and foster your curiosity
Support a healthy work/life balance with flexible hours in our distributed team

**Why join SimCorp?**

At SimCorp you get to work with skilled and supportive colleagues in a global company counting more than 50 nationalities and offices in more than 20 countries. We provide complex IT solutions to the world’s leading investment management firms in a rapidly changing market. Acting in this niche brings lots of challenging and interesting opportunities. SimCorp is a leading provider of investment management solutions to the world’s largest asset managers, fund managers, asset servicers, pension and insurance funds, wealth managers, banks, and sovereign wealth funds.  


We celebrate multiple points of view and together we are building a culture where difference is valued. You will be part of a success story and a company that continues to grow, offering a lot of challenging and interesting opportunities.  What better place to build a successful career?