Senior Field Systems Engineer — Deployment Readiness

Archer; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Job summary

Archer partners with Oracle to connect top talent with a senior Field Systems Engineer role focused on deployment readiness, commissioning, and handoff across complex environments. You will work with Delivery, Engineering, Networking, Data Center Operations, and others to establish ground truth, fix recurring friction, and turn learnings into scalable improvements.

The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving, strong analytics, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal

Qualifications

• 7+ years in operational excellence, field engineering, deployment execution, or similar environments.
• Hands-on in ambiguous, high-tempo settings with cross-functional influence.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives across vendors, partners, or customers.
• Ability to identify systemic issues and craft repeatable improvement mechanisms.
• Strong analytics using metrics, dashboards, or data sources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executive updates.
• Ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• High ownership and practical problem-solving capable of delivering results.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Business/Operations or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Delivery as a hands-on technical and operational counterpart while Delivery owns end-to-end execution.
• Establish ground truth when readiness or handoff is unclear or not reflected in status reports.
• Identify recurring deployment pain points across site readiness, hardware, networking, cabling, power/cooling, validation, commissioning, and handoff.
• Translate delivery pain points into clear requirements, process fixes, escalation paths, or playbook updates.
• Build readiness gates, go/no-go criteria, validation mechanisms, and handoff standards.
• Close the loop on recurring issues by driving systemic fixes back into processes.
• Travel to deployment sites and partner locations as needed (approx. 25–50%).

Skills

Operational excellence

Field engineering

Deployment execution

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or related field

Job description

Archer partners with Oracle to connect top talent with a senior Field Systems Engineer role focused on deployment readiness, commissioning, and handoff across complex environments. You will work with Delivery, Engineering, Networking, Data Center Operations, and others to establish ground truth, fix recurring friction, and turn learnings into scalable improvements.

The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving, strong analytics, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal