Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering - Connected Enterprise Solutions

Molex CES | Lisle, IL | On-site | Travel:10-15%(Global)

Molex's Connected Enterprise Solutions business is entering a period of strategic growth. With data centers expanding rapidly to support infrastructure and enterprise networks undergoing significant modernization, CES occupies a critical position in the connectivity market, delivering comprehensive copper and fiber infrastructure solutions supported by Molex's global engineering capabilities and a legacy of manufacturing excellence.

The Director of Engineering will play a central role in defining the technical strategy of CES, leading a team with established strengths and the opportunity to drive meaningful advancement in fiber connectivity and broader portfolio performance across Enterprise and Data Center markets.

• Set engineering strategy - Define and own priorities across sustaining, qualification, and innovation engineering. Translate market signals and business objectives into a clear, sequenced roadmap that the team can execute against.
• Protect what's working - Ensure the stability, quality, and lifecycle performance of an established product portfolio through disciplined sustaining engineering.
• Accelerate what's next - Drive qualification and integration of new technologies, with a sharp focus on fiber-led solutions for enterprise and hyperscale data center applications.
• Build the pipeline - Lead delivery of new products from concept through launch. Own the outcomes - commercially and technically.
• Be a cross-functional partner - Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure engineering programs are grounded in customer needs and market reality.
• Develop the team - Build a capable, accountable engineering organization that combines technical depth with a strong ownership mindset. Coach individuals at different stages of their careers.
• Contribute to business leadership - Serve as a key member of the CES leadership team, bringing an engineering lens to broader business strategy and decisions.
• Lead with business and financial acumen - Manage engineering resources and investments with an ownership mindset, making sound trade-off decisions that balance innovation, execution, risk, cost, and long-term value creation. Partner with business leaders to ensure technical priorities support profitable growth and strategic objectives.

• 5 to 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, ideally in connectivity, physical layer infrastructure, or an adjacent hardware/technology domain.
• You've led a team through change. Whether that's building from scratch, integrating new technology, or shifting a team's culture, you've done it, and you know the difference between managing the org chart and actually leading people.
• Proven at building and running teams, including teams in transition or earlier stages of maturity. You know how to establish culture, not just inherit it.
• Track record of product delivery, you've shipped products that customers buy. You understand what it takes to get from concept to qualified, manufacturable solutions.
• Operationally disciplined, comfortable balancing long-cycle innovation work with the cadence of sustaining and qualification programs running in parallel.
• Driven by outcomes, not activity. You hold yourself and others accountable to results.

• Deep expertise in fiber technologies, including pre-terminated systems, high-density fiber, splicing, and/or emerging data center fiber architectures.
• Experience integrating acquired or market-ready technologies into an existing product portfolio.
• Familiarity with enterprise structured cabling standards or data center infrastructure standards.
• Experience working within or alongside a global manufacturing and supply chain organization.
• Bachelor's degree and/or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Optical Engineering, or related technical discipline.