Systems Designer

Culmen International LLC • Remote,

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About The Position

Culmen International is seeking a Systems Designer. The Systems Designer will design, develop, integrate, and maintain technical systems and applications used for exercises, evaluations, corrective-action management, planning, data collection, and analysis. The position translates program and operational requirements into secure, accessible, and reliable system designs that strengthen preparedness, response, recovery, and continuity capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, information systems, data science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• Relevant experience designing, developing, integrating, or maintaining information systems, databases, applications, or analytical tools in a government, emergency management, public health, training, or operational environment.
• Experience supporting a federal agency, or a federal public health or emergency preparedness program.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business, functional, technical, data, interface, and user requirements.
• Experience with system design, application development life-cycle activities, testing, troubleshooting, configuration management, and technical documentation.
• Experience developing or maintaining data-management and reporting solutions and supporting traceable, high-quality data.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts and analytical results into clear recommendations for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and the ability to learn and use Government-provided databases, collaboration platforms, and analytical tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively to short-notice, surge, or rapidly changing requirements.
• Ability to travel and work occasional evenings, weekends, or holidays when authorized and required by the task order.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of HSEEP doctrine and familiarity with discussion-based and operations-based exercises.
• Experience with corrective-action systems, exercise-management platforms, participant-registration systems, virtual delivery environments, or simulation tools.
• Experience with data visualization, trend analysis, workflow automation, application integration, or development of decision-support tools.
• Familiarity with the National Response Framework, National Incident Management System, Emergency Support Function #8, continuity programs, and interagency response operations.
• Experience developing accessible electronic products consistent with Section 508 requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze operational, exercise, evaluation, planning, and corrective-action requirements and translate them into system architecture, application, database, interface, and workflow designs.
• Design, develop, configure, test, document, and maintain electronic tools and applications that support exercise management, participant registration, attendance tracking, data collection, evaluation, corrective-action tracking, and reporting.
• Create or update system designs and applications in response to evolving HHS requirements, emerging threats, program priorities, and user feedback.
• Integrate data from exercise, training, real-world response, planning, and corrective-action activities while maintaining traceability to authoritative source information.
• Develop processes and tools that improve data quality, standardization, organization, labeling, transfer, analysis, visualization, and reporting.
• Maintain operational availability of databases, analytical tools, and other E2A2 systems; troubleshoot issues and coordinate timely corrective action.
• Support the integration of modeling, simulation, virtual delivery, visual interfaces, multimedia products, and model outputs into exercise and evaluation environments.
• Develop system requirements, functional specifications, process maps, user guidance, test plans, configuration documentation, and other technical deliverables.
• Collaborate with program managers, planners, facilitators, evaluators, analysts, developers, and subject matter experts to validate requirements and ensure solutions are operationally relevant.
• Prepare and present technical demonstrations, analytical briefings, decision memos, status updates, and recommendations to interagency stakeholders.
• Support recurring and short-turn technical assignments, system enhancements, document reviews, and file-processing requirements within Government-established deadlines.
• Ensure technical products and electronic content comply with applicable HHS security, privacy, records-management, and Section 508 accessibility requirements.
• Travel as authorized to support planning sessions, exercises, evaluations, real-world response activities, conferences, or system implementation requirements.

Benefits

• Exceptional Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, premiums for employees are 100% paid by Culmen, and dependent coverage is available at a nominal rate (including same or opposite sex domestic partners)
• 401k – Vested immediately and 4% match
• Life insurance and disability paid by the company
• Supplemental Insurance Available
• Opportunities for Training and Continuing Education
• 12 Paid Holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level