Technical Standards Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Insured Retirement Institute (IRI)

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11 - 50 employees

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Insurance • Consulting • Healthcare

<Insured Retirement Institute> is the leading trade association for the insured retirement industry in the United States, representing companies involved with annuities and retirement solutions. It advocates before federal and state policymakers and regulators, provides industry research and data, offers member education and professional development (webinars, continuing education, conferences), and runs programs promoting diversity, technology, and retirement security.

📋 Description

• Create, document, and maintain YAML-based standards, event-based and webhook standards, schemas, configurations, and related technical specifications • Apply and maintain consistent technical structures, naming conventions, validation requirements, and documentation practices • Review existing standards and identify opportunities to improve consistency, usability, clarity, and scalability • Manage version control and document changes throughout the standards lifecycle • Support technical processes for reviewing, updating, and retiring standards • Create technical documentation, implementation guides, reference materials, FAQs, and other resources • Translate complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences • Gather requirements and understand industry needs with subject-matter experts, members, technology professionals, and stakeholders • Facilitate discussions to clarify technical requirements and resolve differences in interpretation • Communicate technical concepts and proposed standards in meetings, presentations, and written materials • Incorporate stakeholder feedback while maintaining consistency and technical integrity • Support member-facing education and communications related to standards and implementation • Review YAML, webhook, and event-based documentation for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and adherence to standards • Identify ambiguities, inconsistencies, or gaps and work with stakeholders to resolve them • Develop quality-control processes for standards and documentation • Maintain a centralized repository of standards and supporting documentation

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on expertise with YAML, JSON, APIs, webhooks, event streaming, Git/GitHub, or similar version-control environments • Understanding of structured data and schemas • Experience creating or maintaining technical standards, specifications, schemas, or configuration files • Ability to understand technical requirements and translate them into structured documentation • Familiarity with documentation tools and version-controlled documentation • Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences • Strong editing and proofreading skills • Comfortable working with external technical industry stakeholders • Able to diplomatically challenge inconsistencies or unclear requirements