Senior Structured Data “Stylesheet” Engineer

Comply365; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider in Operational Content Management, Comply365 is looking for a contributor in the Structured Data Services team to manage technical documentation and support editing processes. The successful candidate will utilize skills in XSLT, XML, and various publishing technologies to enhance our documentation systems while working closely with project managers and editors. Join a diverse team dedicated to operational excellence and innovation in the aviation, defense, and rail sectors.

Benefits

Healthcare and private medical insurance

27 days holiday, increasing with length of service

Work-life balance

Ability to buy/sell holiday days

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in developing stylesheets for technical publications.
• Experience in writing XSLT for HTML/XSL-FO output.
• Knowledge of XML Schema/DOM, XPath, and XQuery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve stylesheets for technical publications.
• Work with project managers to meet client needs.
• Participate in Sprint planning and provide feedback.

Skills

XSLT

XML

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

FrameMaker

Apache Ant

DITA

2D/3D Graphics

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

FrameMaker

Oxygen

Job description

About Comply365

Comply365 is a leading provider of Operational Content Management, Safety Management, and Training Management in the highly regulated industries of Aviation, Defense, and Rail. We provide a powerful combination of expertise and products underpinned by unified best practices, empowering airlines, rail, and defense organizations with the most comprehensive product portfolio to elevate operational excellence, and transform safety management and training, with closer integration of data across these domains. Comply365 ensures our customers' teams and assets are always geared for peak operational performance and unlocks unparalleled financial and operational gains through more streamlined, robust, and agile operations.

Our culture truly sets us apart at Comply365. In addition to our unwavering dedication to our customers and products that we offer, we are, first and foremost, a diverse team of driven, energetic, and passionate individuals who work together to make a direct impact on the future of our company. We have built, and continue to build a world-class, dynamic, and people-first culture. We believe in celebrating one another's achievements, open communication, and transparent leadership.

About The Position

You will work in the Structured Data Services team, which supports all aspects of in-house editing and customer self-authoring, on legacy and current platforms. Structured Data Services provides services to in-house and external customers, such as but not limited to:

• Performing format conversions on customer data to prepare it for ingestion to our systems; this is typically done using XSLT, together with occasional shell scripting and a build system such as Apache Ant or GNU Make.
• Writing XSLT stylesheets to transform XML source documents into XSL-FO result files ready for formatting using an XSL-FO processor such as Apache FOP or Antenna House Formatter.
• Providing support to our in-house team of editors who use FrameMaker for legacy documents and Fonto, a browser-based editor, for current document types such as DITA, Boeing (various types), and Airbus (various types).

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with project managers to deliver solutions that meet client needs.
• Develop new stylesheets and improvements for technical publications.
• Take initiatives to self-study and acquire domain knowledge to solve technical problems with support from project manager and domain experts.
• Participate in Sprint planning meetings, work on JIRA tickets, and provide feedback to refine requirements and estimates.
• Demonstrate work results during weekly status meetings.
• Collaborate with the rest of the team, discuss technical issues, and share knowledge daily in real time.
• Perform code review with other developers.
• Create documentation for new features.
• Work closely with our QA team to understand and fix issues.
• All other duties as assigned.

Skills and Qualifications

• Extensive experience in developing stylesheets for viewing and printing technical publications.
• Experience in writing XSLT to produce HTML and or XSL-FO output required.
• Experience in troubleshooting errors in XML input data (markup errors, significant/insignificant whitespace).
• Familiar with XML Schema/DOM, XPath, XQuery, and XSLT processors.
• Extensive experience in generating XSL-FO code for printing technical publications in PDF.
• Extensive experience in generating HTML/CSS/JavaScript for viewing technical publications with Web browser/mobile devices.
• Familiar with XML editors, e.g. XMetal, Arbortext, Framemaker, Oxygen.
• Knowledge of 2D/3D graphics/image formats and SDK, including CGM, SVG, PNG, GIF, JPEG, VRML, or other 3D CAD formats.
• Knowledge and experience in XML publishing, e.g., FOP, XEP, Antenna House, Arbortext PE.
• Experience in processing PDF, e.g., iText, Adobe PDF library.
• Knowledge of aviation operations manuals is preferred.
• Experience working with DITA is preferred.
• B.S. in Computer Science with 3+ years of work experience (a plus).
• Knowledge of Apache Ant. Knowledge of Make (a plus).
• Knowledge of ATA iSpec DTDs/schemas (a plus).
• Knowledge of FrameMaker (a plus).
  
  

Why come aboard?

We can't promise you a bar in far Bombay, but we have a range of benefits including considerations for healthcare, private medical insurance, 27 days holiday rising with length of service, buy/sell up to 3 days holiday, work life balance, and many more! For more information on our full range of benefits, please visit our website Comply365_Benefits_UK.pdf