System Architect, Mid (MBSE/USCG)

THOR Solutions is actively seeking a highly motivated Mid-Level System Architect to support the U.S. Coast Guard in developing, analyzing, and maintaining architecture products for the Coast Guard Enterprise Architecture (CGEA) program in Portsmouth, VA.

Under the direction of senior architects and the Government technical lead, this position builds and maintains solution and enterprise architecture artifacts, populates and organizes the architecture repository, and helps keep architecture data current and traceable within the Coast Guard's digital engineering environment. The position contributes hands-on architecture modeling and documentation that enables the Coast Guard to sustain and modernize its Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence (C5I) products and services.

Typical Responsibilities:

• Develop current- and future-state solution architectures in accordance with enterprise architecture, target architecture, reference architecture, and engineering standards.
• Maintain solution architecture data currency in the system modeling tool and maintain published architecture products, data, and analysis.
• Organize and maintain the solution and enterprise architecture repository and establish traceability between each architecture layer.
• Extract, transform, and load architecture data from source documents such as requirements, engineering drawings, standards, and technical/logistic documentation.
• Analyze solution architecture for risks and assess architectures for compliance with UAF, SysML, and C5I architecture standards.
• Generate reports from the Digital Engineering Environment / System Modeling Tool (e.g., Apache Velocity Templates) and publish architecture products to a web-based content management system.
• Support development of standard templates that incorporate CGEA standards and methodologies.
• Comply with USCG controlled vocabulary, architecture style guide, and SELC Change Management Policy.

Location: Hybrid work schedule: Approximately 2-3 days onsite each week at the USCG C5ISC in Portsmouth, VA or THOR Headquarters in Virginia Beach, VA. Availability to the USCG COR via telephone 0800-1600 EST, Monday-Friday, with response to technical problems within 4 hours.

Travel: Up to 10% travel to CONUS locations is anticipated to support Government meetings.

Typical Physical Activity: Primarily desk/computer work in an office environment. May involve: repetitive motion.

Typical Pay Range: The anticipated pay range for this position in the identified location is $60,000 - $80,000. Actual compensation offered will be based upon individual factors including education, qualifications, and experience.

Existing SECRET Security Clearance Required: This position requires an existing active Secret security clearance prior to hire. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance; therefore, only current U.S. citizens will be considered for this position.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or another related technical discipline.
• Five (5) years of demonstrated technical experience in Requirements and/or EA development, analysis, management, and documentation, including a minimum of two (2) years of demonstrated experience with the System Architect application and/or an equivalent System Modeling tool.
• Demonstrated proficiency developing, formatting, proofing, editing, producing, and publishing EA documents in accordance with cited DHS/USCG compliance documents.
• Familiarity with UAF or SysML.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Teams and SharePoint, and Adobe.
• Strong interpersonal, writing, and presentation skills.

Additional Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Master's degree.
• Certifications in SysML, UAF, and/or UML.
• Experience with Apache Velocity Templates.