Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering - Connected Enterprise Solutions

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

Your Job

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.

What You Will Lead



* 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* 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, includin...