SMSTR90 - Senior Technical Writer
Smartstream Limited Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · ₹2M/yr
Financial Services · 1,001-5,000 employees
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About the role
The role involves planning, writing, and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation including user guides and release notes for enterprise software. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather technical details while managing documentation standards and publishing workflows.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 6+ years of experience in technical writing with proficiency in authoring tools like MadCap Flare and Git-based workflows. Knowledge of AI-assisted writing tools and experience with REST APIs or enterprise software environments is highly valued.
Full description
- Plan, write and maintain installation, implementation, administration and user guides, release notes and online help for enterprise software products.
- Work with developers, QA, product and support to gather accurate technical details and keep documentation aligned with each release.
- Own documentation standards: style guide, templates, terminology, and single-sourcing across products.
- Manage authoring and publishing workflows (Flare or MkDocs, Git, automated HTML/PDF builds), and migrate legacy Word, PDF and Flare content to modern formats.
- Use AI tools to draft, edit, convert and audit content, and structure content for AI search and chatbots. Always verify output for accuracy and confidentiality.
- Mentor junior writers, run review cycles and improve documentation using customer and support feedback.
- Writing: 6+ years of clear, task-based technical writing, information architecture and style-guide discipline.
- Authoring tools: MadCap Flare, MkDocs/Markdown, Confluence, plus Word and PDF publishing; Snagit and draw.io for visuals.
- Docs-as-code: Git (Bitbucket/GitHub), CI/CD builds, basic HTML/CSS, YAML (Optional)
- AI knowledge: AI-assisted writing and conversion, tools such as Claude, Copilot and ChatGPT, and AI-ready content (modular topics, metadata, RAG).
- Technical and domain: databases, installation and configuration, REST APIs; financial or enterprise software experience is a plus.
- Collaboration: SME interviewing, Agile release planning, stakeholder management.
Equality Statement: Smartstream is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.
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