{"id":1165641,"url":"https://alion.io/job/culmen-international-systems-designer","title":"Systems Designer","company":{"id":449741,"name":"Culmen International","domain":"culmen.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/culmen-international","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T02:47:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T05:48:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About the Role\nCulmen International is seeking a Systems Designer.\nThe 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.\nWhat You’ll Do in Your New Role\nAnalyze operational, exercise, evaluation, planning, and corrective-action requirements and translate them into system architecture, application, database, interface, and workflow designs.\nDesign, 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.\nCreate or update system designs and applications in response to evolving HHS requirements, emerging threats, program priorities, and user feedback.\nIntegrate data from exercise, training, real-world response, planning, and corrective-action activities while maintaining traceability to authoritative source information.\nDevelop processes and tools that improve data quality, standardization, organization, labeling, transfer, analysis, visualization, and reporting.\nMaintain operational availability of databases, analytical tools, and other E2A2 systems; troubleshoot issues and coordinate timely corrective action.\nSupport the integration of modeling, simulation, virtual delivery, visual interfaces, multimedia products, and model outputs into exercise and evaluation environments.\nDevelop system requirements, functional specifications, process maps, user guidance, test plans, configuration documentation, and other technical deliverables.\nCollaborate with program managers, planners, facilitators, evaluators, analysts, developers, and subject matter experts to validate requirements and ensure solutions are operationally relevant.\nPrepare and present technical demonstrations, analytical briefings, decision memos, status updates, and recommendations to interagency stakeholders.\nSupport recurring and short-turn technical assignments, system enhancements, document reviews, and file-processing requirements within Government-established deadlines.\nEnsure technical products and electronic content comply with applicable HHS security, privacy, records-management, and Section 508 accessibility requirements.\nTravel as authorized to support planning sessions, exercises, evaluations, real-world response activities, conferences, or system implementation requirements.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, information systems, data science, software engineering, or a related technical field.\nRelevant experience designing, developing, integrating, or maintaining information systems, databases, applications, or analytical tools in a government, emergency management, public health, training, or operational environment.\nExperience supporting a federal agency, or a federal public health or emergency preparedness program.\nExperience eliciting and documenting business, functional, technical, data, interface, and user requirements.\nExperience with system design, application development life-cycle activities, testing, troubleshooting, configuration management, and technical documentation.\nExperience developing or maintaining data-management and reporting solutions and supporting traceable, high-quality data.\nAbility to translate complex technical concepts and analytical results into clear recommendations for technical and nontechnical audiences.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and the ability to learn and use Government-provided databases, collaboration platforms, and analytical tools.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively to short-notice, surge, or rapidly changing requirements.\nAbility to travel and work occasional evenings, weekends, or holidays when authorized and required by the task order.\nDesired Qualifications\nKnowledge of HSEEP doctrine and familiarity with discussion-based and operations-based exercises.\nExperience with corrective-action systems, exercise-management platforms, participant-registration systems, virtual delivery environments, or simulation tools.\nExperience with data visualization, trend analysis, workflow automation, application integration, or development of decision-support tools.\nFamiliarity with the National Response Framework, National Incident Management System, Emergency Support Function #8, continuity programs, and interagency response operations.\nExperience developing accessible electronic products consistent with Section 508 requirements.\nAbout the Company\nCulmen International is committed to enhancing international safety and security, strengthening homeland defense, advancing humanitarian missions, and optimizing government operations. With experience in over 150 countries, Culmen supports our clients to accomplish critical missions in challenging environments.\nExceptional 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)\n\n401k - Vested immediately and 4% match\nLife insurance and disability paid by the company\nSupplemental Insurance Available\nOpportunities for Training and Continuing Education\n12 Paid Holidays\nTo learn more about Culmen International, please visit www.culmen.com\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5942,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Life insurance","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Data & Analytics","Information Technology"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T02:47:49Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/culmen-international-systems-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/culmen-international-systems-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T21:47:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"subnet","units_charged":1,"used_today":84,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4916,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-25T00:00:00Z"}}}