Senior FW Engineer/Product Architect

Eaton; Cwmbran; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Internal promotion opportunities

Learning & development via Eaton Univ

Wellbeing program

Sustainability focus

Job summary

The Cwmbran facility at Eaton leads the Fire & Intrusion product line and seeks a Product Architect to define and govern the technical architecture across product solutions. You will bridge Product Management, Engineering, and external partners to ensure scalable, secure, compliant, and cost-effective outcomes throughout the lifecycle.

You will drive architecture standards, evaluate new technologies, and lead complex design decisions to align with market requirements and strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree - Embedded Firmware or Electronics preferable but open to others with the relevant experience.
• 10 years experience in a hands-on electronics architecture role is preferable; less will be considered but we require a high level of electronics architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and communicate end-to-end product architectures for Fire & Intrusion solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, platforms, architectures, and development approaches to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
• Ensure architectural consistency, reusability, and scalability across product portfolios and future product generations.
• Establish architectural standards, design principles, and best practices to support long-term product evolution.
• Serve as the primary technical authority for assigned products or product families.
• Translate customer, business, and product requirements into robust technical solutions and system architectures.
• Provide technical leadership and decision-making for complex technical challenges, design trade-offs, and architectural decisions.
• Lead engineering feasibility assessments and architecture reviews to support investment and product development decisions.
• Drive problem-solving activities during product development, verification, certification, commercialization, and post-release support.
• Ensure technical solutions balance performance, quality, reliability, cybersecurity, manufacturability, serviceability, schedule, and cost objectives.
• Partner with Product Management to translate customer and market requirements into technical specifications and architectural requirements.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, cloud, mobile application, and systems engineering teams to define and deliver complete product solutions.
• Work with Program Management to manage technical risks, dependencies, and execution priorities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Certification, and Technical Support teams to ensure successful product launches and lifecycle support.
• Engage with customers, certification bodies, technology partners, and industry organizations to support product strategy, compliance, and innovation initiatives as required.

Skills

Systems Architecture

Cyber Security

Connectivity & IoT

Software & Embedded Systems

Technology Strategy

Sensors/Intelligence Solution

Strategic Thinking

Influencing & Stakeholder Management

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Innovation Leadership

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

Engineering Degree - Embedded Firmware or Electronics

Job description

Requisition ID72939-Posted09/14/2026

The Cwmbran facility is the center of excellence for the Fire product line, a leading manufacturer and a global supplier of high-quality fire systems and devices. With our ability to provide complete systems, not just components, our customers can be confident in the knowledge that all of our products have been specifically designed and tested to ensure that they are all fully compatible to form a reliable, compliant fire detection and alarm system.

• World’s leading supplier of Fire notification devices (IHS)
• Dedicated Fire sales team in every region
• ISO 9001:2008 certified
• Dedicated global R&D team
• ISO 9001:2008 certified
• Cwmbran Manufacturing
• Devices & Panels

What you’ll do:

The Product Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the technical architecture of Fire & Intrusion products, ensuring that product solutions align with the overall product strategy, technology roadmap, and business objectives.

Acting as the key technical bridge between Product Management, Program Management, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and external technology partners, the Product Architect ensures that products are scalable, secure, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with customer and market requirements.

The role is accountable for the success of the technical solution throughout the entire product lifecycle for assigned products or product families, from concept development and requirements definition through architecture design, development, certification, commercialization, deployment, and sustaining engineering.

Product Architecture & Strategy

• Define, maintain, and communicate end-to-end product architectures for Fire & Intrusion solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, platforms, architectures, and development approaches to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
• Ensure architectural consistency, reusability, and scalability across product portfolios and future product generations.
• Establish architectural standards, design principles, and best practices to support long-term product evolution.

Product Solution Leadership

• Serve as the primary technical authority for assigned products or product families.
• Translate customer, business, and product requirements into robust technical solutions and system architectures.
• Provide technical leadership and decision-making for complex technical challenges, design trade-offs, and architectural decisions.
• Lead engineering feasibility assessments and architecture reviews to support investment and product development decisions.
• Drive problem-solving activities during product development, verification, certification, commercialization, and post-release support.
• Ensure technical solutions balance performance, quality, reliability, cybersecurity, manufacturability, serviceability, schedule, and cost objectives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer and market requirements into technical specifications and architectural requirements.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, cloud, mobile application, and systems engineering teams to define and deliver complete product solutions.
• Work closely with Program Management to manage technical risks, dependencies, and execution priorities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Certification, and Technical Support teams to ensure successful product launches and lifecycle support.
• Engage with customers, certification bodies, technology partners, and industry organizations to support product strategy, compliance, and innovation initiatives as required.

Qualifications:

• Engineering Degree - Embedded Firmware or Electronics Preferable but open to others with the relevant experience.
• 10 years experience in a hands on electronics architecture role is preferable - less will be considered but we require a high level of electronics artichitecture experience.

Skills:

• Systems Architecture
• Cyber Security
• Connectivity & IoT
• Software & Embedded Systems
• Technology Strategy
• Sensors/Intellegence Solution
• Strategic Thinking
• Influencing & Stakeholder Management
• Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Innovation Leadership
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.
• We make your wellbeing matter – We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it’s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

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