Data and BI Technical Writer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

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 role will assess data quality, integrity, accuracy, performance, and usability while maintaining clear records of test results, defects, troubleshooting activities, and resolutions.

The writer will translate technical findings into reproducible issue descriptions and understandable

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• 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, performance, and usability.
• Ability to document test results, defects, troubleshooting activities, and resolutions.

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.

Skills

Technical writing

Stakeholder communication

SQL

Power BI

Data modeling

Troubleshooting

Documentation platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in technical communication, English, information systems, or related field

Active Secret clearance or higher

Tools

SharePoint

Confluence

Test-management systems

Job description

OverviewDecisionPoint 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.

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

Required 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.

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