Technical Writer

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Analyze Re

Company Description

Analyze Re, a Verisk business, provides innovative cloud-based real-time data analytics which facilitates technical pricing, risk management and decision support capabilities to the insurance, reinsurance and ILS markets. Since 2013 we’ve been helping our clients to enhance their analytical capabilities and manage their portfolios against large volumes of risk data with our unique technology which has been built to integrate efficiently into existing workflows. To learn more about Analyze Re, please visit us at: www.analyzere.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!

With a history of impressive growth, an innovative culture, and offering industry-leading solutions, Verisk Analytics is an amazing place to work and make a difference. In 2018, Forbes magazine named Verisk to its World’s Best Employers list and, in 2017, to its World’s Most Innovative Companies list for the third consecutive year. We also earned the Great Place to Work® Certification for the third consecutive year in recognition of our outstanding workplace culture.

Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using advanced technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, Verisk draws on unique data assets and deep domain expertise to provide first-to-market innovations integrated into customer workflows. We’ve been delivering predictive analytics and decision support solutions to our customers for nearly 50 years, helping them protect people, property, and financial assets. At Verisk, you’ll be part of an organization that’s committed to serving the long-term interests of our stakeholders, including the communities where we operate.

At Verisk, you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create a positive and lasting impact on the business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. Our culture of innovation means your ideas on how to improve our business will be heard. As key contributors to our success, our team members enjoy working in a business-casual, collaborative environment that offers state-of-the-art resources, advanced technologies, and an excellent benefits package.

Job Description

Analyze Re is looking for a contract-based Technical Writer who can help us to build out our documentation capabilities. We are an API-first SAAS company that offers companies in the insurance and reinsurance sector access to cloud-based high-performance analytics.   We need someone who will be able to work directly with customers to assess their documentation needs, and provide clear and effective product documentation across a number of different delivery mechanisms.

In this role, you will

·         Develop comprehensive API and user documentation

·         Embed yourself in the software development cycle, preparing documentation for new features

·         Write user friendly content that is tailored to our users in the insurance and reinsurance industry

·         Develop and maintain detailed databases of appropriate reference materials

·         Evaluate current content and develop innovative approaches for improvement to our existing processes

Qualifications

The Ideal Candidate will have all of these skills:

·         5+ years in a technical writing role

·         Experience documenting RESTful APIs, including interacting with the APIs to test assumptions

·         Expert knowledge of topic-based authoring and the DITA authoring framework

·         Experience managing documentation projects, including research, document planning, and delivery in an Agile environment committed to continuous releases

·         Experience using  a source control tool

·         Ability to understand simple code snippets, especially in Python and C#

 

These are some additional bonus skills that we would love to see:

·         Familiarity with reinsurance concepts

·         Prior experience as the sole technical writer in a startup environment

·         Power user of Excel

·         Working knowledge of Camtasia or experience creating video walk-throughs

·   Familiarity with DITA-OT, including editing and running dita transforms from the command line/light scripting

·         Working knowledge of Markdown

·         Working knowledge of a scripting language

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Additional Information

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