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