9895 - Documentation Information Architect – Cloud – MTS

Wind River Systems; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Canada seeks a Documentation Information Architect to redesign their documentation systems. The role involves leading documentation architecture redesign, improving content discoverability, and collaborating across teams for better alignment of documentation with user workflows. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in technical documentation and a strong understanding of structured authoring methods. Hybrid work options and various employee benefits are offered.

Benefits

Company-sponsored health insurance

Income protection including disability coverage

Matching RRSP

Vacation and various time-off policies

Learning benefits like LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical documentation, information architecture, or content strategy.
• Strong understanding of structured authoring and content delivery platforms.
• Experience designing scalable information architectures for complex technical products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the redesign of the documentation information architecture.
• Define and implement content models, metadata strategies, and taxonomy frameworks.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical teams for documentation alignment.
• Evaluate and optimize current content delivery platforms for performance and usability.
• Drive transformation of documentation to enhance enterprise user experience.

Skills

Technical documentation

Information architecture

Content strategy

Collaboration skills

Tools

DITA

Sphinx

reStructuredText

Fluid Topics

Job description

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission‑critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer‑focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software‑defined world.

YOUR ROLE

As a Documentation Information Architect on our team, you’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of technical writers, developers, and documentation tools specialists to re‑architect the Wind River Private Cloud documentation offering. Your mission will be to make the content more readable, searchable, and scalable, supporting both internal and external audiences.

In your daily job you will:

• Lead the redesign of the documentation information architecture for Wind River Private Cloud.
• Define and implement content models, metadata strategies, and taxonomy frameworks to improve discoverability and reuse.
• Collaborate with writers, engineers, product managers, and testers to align documentation structure with product architecture and user workflows.
• Evaluate and optimize current content delivery platforms (Fluid Topics, DITA CMS, Sphinx, reStructuredText ) for performance, usability, and integration.
• Drive the transformation of documentation to better serve enterprise users, focusing on scalability, role‑based content delivery, and alignment with enterprise workflows, compliance needs, and integration scenarios.
• Develop and maintain documentation standards, templates, and governance models.
• Support AI‑driven documentation initiatives, including chatbot integration and RAG‑based content retrieval.
• Champion user experience in documentation by conducting usability reviews and incorporating feedback loops.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in technical documentation, information architecture, or content strategy.
• Strong understanding of structured authoring (DITA), docs‑as‑code workflows (Sphinx, reStructuredText), and content delivery platforms (Fluid Topics).
• Experience designing scalable information architectures for complex technical products.
• Familiarity with metadata, taxonomy, and semantic search principles.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non‑technical teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with AI‑enhanced documentation systems, including LLMs and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG).
• Background in cloud technologies or enterprise software.
• Knowledge of UX principles and accessibility standards in documentation.
• Workplace flexibility: Hybrid work.
• Company‑sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
• Income protection through short and long‑term disability coverage.
• Matching RRSP.
• Vacation and various time‑off policies to encourage work‑life balance.
• Well‑being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well‑being through Unmind.
• Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

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EEO STATEMENT

Wind River is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.