[Hiring] Data and BI Technical Writer @DecisionPoint | Cortek

Role Description

DecisionPoint seeks a Data and BI Technical Writer to support validation and documentation of data pipelines, warehouse components, dashboards, and reports under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This Journeyman-level position will assess data quality, integrity, accuracy, performance, and usability while maintaining clear records of test results, defects, troubleshooting activities, and resolutions. The specialist will translate technical findings into reproducible issue descriptions and understandable documentation supporting corrective actions and operational use. The Data and BI Technical Writer will collaborate with data engineers, database personnel, BI developers, business analysts, quality personnel, and Government stakeholders to verify expected behavior and document the resolution of identified issues. This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Test data pipelines, warehouse components, dashboards, and reports against documented requirements and expected results.
• Evaluate data quality, integrity, accuracy, completeness, and consistency across processing and reporting stages.
• Validate transformations, calculations, aggregations, filters, and displayed reporting results.
• Assess pipeline and reporting performance against established expectations.
• Evaluate dashboard and report usability, navigation, labeling, and clarity.
• Prepare and maintain test procedures, scenarios, expected outcomes, and execution records.
• Document discrepancies with clear descriptions, reproduction steps, supporting evidence, and affected components.
• Maintain defect records and coordinate clarification with responsible developers and engineers.
• Document troubleshooting activities, diagnostic findings, corrective actions, and resolutions.
• Retest corrected components and record whether identified issues have been resolved.
• Support regression testing following pipeline, schema, warehouse, or reporting changes.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, results, defects, and retest evidence.
• Summarize testing progress, unresolved issues, limitations, and release-readiness findings.
• Support user acceptance activities and document stakeholder feedback.
• Maintain organized, current test and troubleshooting documentation in approved repositories.
• Coordinate technical reviews to confirm documentation accurately reflects findings and implemented corrections.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Minimum of six years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in technical communication, English, information systems, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
• Ability to test data pipelines, warehouse components, dashboards, and reports.
• Ability to evaluate data quality, integrity, accuracy, performance, and usability.
• Ability to document test results, defects, troubleshooting activities, and resolutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant data/BI fundamentals training.
• Documentation-tool training.
• Experience supporting data warehouse, ETL, dashboard, or operational reporting testing.
• Familiarity with SQL, Power BI, data models, metadata, and data flows.
• Experience maintaining test evidence, reproducible defect records, and retest documentation.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense programs.
• Familiarity with requirements traceability, version control, and document review processes.
• Experience with SharePoint, Confluence, test-management systems, or comparable documentation platforms.
• Strong technical writing, analytical troubleshooting, editing, and stakeholder communication skills.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.

Pay Transparency Policy

In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information

By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience.