Documentation Information Architect \u2013 Cloud \u2013 MTS

Wind River; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in software solutions is seeking a Documentation Information Architect in Ottawa. The role involves redesigning documentation architecture, content strategy, and collaboration with technical teams. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience with structured authoring tools and possess excellent communication skills. This position offers a hybrid work model and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance

Matching RRSP

Employee assistance program

Learning benefits through LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical documentation or content strategy.
• Strong understanding of structured authoring and docs-as-code workflows.
• Experience designing scalable architectures for complex technical products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the redesign of documentation information architecture.
• Define and implement content models and metadata strategies.
• Evaluate and optimize current content delivery platforms.

Skills

Technical documentation

Information architecture

Content strategy

Collaboration

Usability reviews

Tools

Fluid Topics

DITA

Sphinx

reStructuredText

Job description

Overview

Documentation Information Architect – Cloud – MTS

Location: Ottawa, Canada

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.

Benefits

• 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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