Pg&E Corporation Oakland , CA 94604
Posted 2 weeks ago
Requisition ID # 157341
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Information Technology
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview:
Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments which collaborate effectively in order to deliver high quality technology solutions.
Position Summary:
The Senior Technical Writer isresponsible for researching business requirements for PG&E IT products and services, creating, and maintaining documentation and flow charts for use by IT Help Desk teams, development team, product managers, and business stakeholders. Deliverables include user manuals, runbooks related to back-end data flow operations, playbooks for use in specific types of processes; Application Programming Interface (API) documentation, position papers, and other forms of documentation.
You will work closely with (data) engineers, product managers, scrum masters, product owners, help desk teams, and leaders to ensure that the documentation is accurate, easy to understand, and meets the needs of target end users. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills combined with excellent writing, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the Oakland General Office once a month and or based on business needs.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $98,000
Bay Area Maximum: $146,000
Job Responsibilities:
Gather and analyze business requirements from stakeholders
Visually map end to end process or product flows as needed, to align with related or enterprise-wide processes or products (as needed)
Develop and maintain business requirements documentation
Establish acceptance criteria with developers and testers for documentation
Write clear and concise technical documentation for a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical users
Work with development team and product managers to gather requirements and develop documentation plans including schedules to support ongoing review and updates on a quarterly or annual basis to ensure that content remains current
Create and maintain documentation in a variety of formats. Documentation examples include user manuals, API documentation, position papers, and online / digital content
Use a variety of tools and technologies for ongoing documentation creation, management, and access and use by multiple teams such as SharePoint, content management systems, authoring tools, and collaboration tools
Stay up to date on latest technologies and trends, industry standards and best practices for technical writing
Work independently and as part of a team to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality work
Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels for status, milestone reporting, daily stand-ups and more.
Willingness to collaborate and/or mentor other technical writers
Qualifications:
Minimum
Bachelor's degree in technical writing, English, communications, or a related field.
4 years of experience as a technical writer developing technical and non-technical documentation
Two years or more experience using visual mapping programs including Visio or related types of tools
Desired
Certification in editing
Experience or familiarity with energy or utilities industries including safety
Experience with a variety of documentation tools and technologies including but not limited to: Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel), Adobe.
Experience with a variety of writing styles and formats.
Experience working with IT teams, data engineers, product managers and product owners.
Familiarity with Jira
Familiarity with software development methodologies and software engineering principles, with an emphasis on data-related development teams
Experience with user acceptance testing (UAT), usability analysis, especially in drafting scenarios for use with UAT, and User Experience (UX).
Experience with Agile Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development methodologies.
At least two years' experience developing learning materials
Strong writing and editing skills
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Self-motivated, able to manage schedule, priorities, and deadlines in support of delivering quality work
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Ability to learn recent technologies and software
Attention to detail and accuracy
Pg&E Corporation