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Staff Content Developer / Lead Technical Writer

Location: San Diego, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 209876

External Description:

Staff Content Developer / Lead Technical Writer

Location: Santa Clara, CA / San Diego, CA / Raleigh, NC / El Segundo, CA

 

What’s the opportunity?

We are welcoming a Staff Content Developer / Lead Technical Writer to our team of skilled technical communicators and content operation experts.

As a lead technical writer at Teradata, you play an important role in the overall user experience by creating crisp and engaging content to help our half a million users efficiently perform their job. Implementing search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, you put the content users seek right at their fingertips. You help connect dots and shape the end-to-end content experience for our modern and streamlined products.

 

Responsibilities

  • Produce top-notch technical content for our users, including Database Administrators, Data Scientists, Business Analysts, and developers, guiding them through our solutions seamlessly. Content formats include web-based user guides, getting started guides, programming references, use cases and examples, in-product help, and more.
  • Leverage your content management expertise to ensure our content is created, published, and maintained efficiently.
  • Gain empathy for your audience, learn to understand the tools and environment they are in, and work hands-on with our products.
  • Advocate for the end user and collaborate closely with product management, UX, engineering, support, and other content-producing organizations.
  • Contribute to evolving our best practices, identify opportunities to improve our content, and make our processes more efficient.
  • As needed, manage cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives.

 

Minimum Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree, a technical background, and at least eight years of relevant experience.
  • Working experience of content development for enterprise level products, including at least three years of project or other leadership responsibilities.
  • Adept at technical writing with the ability to understand, synthesize, and transform technical concepts and procedures into content that provides your audience with relevant content in a clear and minimalist fashion.
  • Focused understanding of and experience with documenting Database technology and SQL. Ability to grasp advanced technical concepts at solution-level as well as technical details.
  • Experience using DITA XML and a content management system (CCMS). We author using Ixiasoft CCMS and oXygen editor.
  • Exceptional organizational skills and determination to find information, then decide the best way to deliver it to the user.
  • Curiosity, desire, and skills to excel within different areas of content production. You enjoy learning about new technologies, trends, and concepts as they come along.
  • Apt at being simultaneously self-reliant and collaborative. You can take an assignment and run with it.

 

Preferred Experience

  • Product experience: Experience using or documenting analytics or database software and applications
  • Technical knowledge: Python, R, APIs, and Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Developing and publishing web HTML content, following SEO best practices
  • Developing documentation in an agile environment

 

 

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City: San Diego

State: California

Community / Marketing Title: Staff Content Developer / Lead Technical Writer

Job Category: Engineering

Company Profile:

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

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