[Hiring] Technical Editor @LED FastStart

Role Description

Oversee complex programs that drive impactful mission outcomes for our customers as a Technical Editor Senior. Here, you’ll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your program management career can go at GDIT.

As a Technical Editor, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Technology Shared Services. You will play a crucial role in creating, maintaining, and governing program documentation across Agile, technical, and compliance domains. Working closely with architects, developers, product managers, and federal stakeholders, this role ensures that all documentation—including design artifacts, user guides, and compliance deliverables—is clear, accurate, and compliant with federal standards. The Technical Writer plays a key role in supporting DevSecOps, Agile delivery, and modernization transparency for applications built as part of this initiative.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in English, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience: 2+ years' experience working in an Agile Scrum environment writing technical documentation for the software product, application, and product releases.
• Technical skills:
  • Proven experience producing documentation for Agile, cloud, or DevSecOps-based projects.
  • Strong understanding of technical concepts in software development, system architecture, APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
  • Experience managing compliance documentation for FedRAMP, NIST, or FISMA-controlled environments.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills, with attention to accuracy, clarity, and style.
  • Proficiency with document management systems (SharePoint, Confluence, Git, or equivalent).
  • Familiarity with Markdown, HTML, or XML for publishing technical documentation.
  • Experience creating content accessible to all audiences (Section 508 and WCAG compliance).
• Security clearance level: Public Trust

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in technical writing or documentation management with some experience supporting federal or enterprise-scale IT programs.
• Proven experience producing documentation for Agile, cloud, or DevSecOps-based projects.
• Strong understanding of technical concepts in software development, system architecture, APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience managing compliance documentation for FedRAMP, NIST, or FISMA-controlled environments.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills, with attention to accuracy, clarity, and style.
• Proficiency with document management systems (SharePoint, Confluence, Git, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with Markdown, HTML, or XML for publishing technical documentation.
• Experience creating content accessible to all audiences (Section 508 and WCAG compliance).

Benefits

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.

Salary Information

The likely salary range for this position is $63,312 - $85,658. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Benefits Information

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.