# Technical Writer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Baltimore, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $41,600.00 - $75,200.00
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Writer to work in our Baltimore, Maryland office on a project for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The successful candidate will help document and communicate the modernization of the CMS Contact Center CRM Services (CCCS) platform.

**Primary Responsibilities**

The Technical Writer will develop and maintain written deliverables, documentation, and communications required to support the CCCS modernization effort. Key responsibilities include:

- Writing, maintaining, and supporting deliverables required under the Deliverables Schedule

- Developing training support materials, release communications, and change management content

- Partnering with the Product Manager, Chief Architect, and Agile delivery teams to capture accurate technical content

- Consulting relevant sources to verify accuracy and regulatory requirements

- Ensuring written content complies with Section 508 accessibility standards and CMS/HHS accessibility policies

- Copyediting and proofreading technical documentation

- Developing and maintaining knowledge base articles, FAQs, and CSR-facing scripting content

- Managing multiple concurrent writing assignments in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment

- Coordinating with graphic designers, trainers, and multimedia specialists

- Supporting development of executive-level briefings, white papers, and presentations

- Maintaining version control and a repository of documentation artifacts

- Working independently and within Agile project teams

- Ensuring documents meet editorial and government specifications

- Communicating documentation status, risks, and dependencies to CMS leadership and Leidos management

- Participating in customer meetings and other events

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in writing, technical writing, journalism, communications, or a closely related discipline

- Minimum of 4-6 years of relevant experience

- Ability to capture technical solutions and translate them into clear technical documentation

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Ability to manage multiple concurrent writing assignments

- Available to support in-person at Leidos/CMS Windsor Mill, MD office as needed

- Ability to obtain Public Trust

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Ability to write and edit content to Section 508 compliance standards

- Experience with Human-Centered Design (HCD) framework and methods

- Experience working with Agile project management tools

- Experience supporting CMS or other federal health/human services modernization programs

- Experience writing technical and end-user documentation for CRM or contact center platforms

**Pay Range:** $41,600.00 - $75,200.00

## Skills

### Required
- technical writing
- communication
- Agile project management
- Section 508 accessibility standards

### Nice to have
- Human-Centered Design
- Agile project management tools
- CRM or contact center platforms

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