Senior Manager - Engineering Innovation & Technology

TE Connectivity Corporation; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary Package

Performance-Based Bonus Plans

Health and Wellness Incentives

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Community Outreach Programs

Employee Resource Group

Job summary

TE Connectivity is seeking a Senior Manager - Engineering Innovation & Technology to drive strategic tech leadership, roadmapping, and cross-functional collaboration across data center connectivity projects. You will lead pathfinding efforts, guide design-for-manufacturing initiatives, and bridge R&D with product development teams.

Ideal candidates have 12+ years in engineering leadership, experience in high-speed connectivity or data center infrastructure, and a proven track record of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Materials Science, Physics or related engineering discipline required.
• Master's degree or advanced technical training preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership of engineering teams and cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with high-speed connectivity, cables, connectors, or data center infrastructure is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Strategic technology leadership with roadmaps aligned to strategy; monitor trends to identify emerging technologies.
• Act as a cross-organizational bridge among SBTs, CTO, and CTC to align priorities and investments.
• Lead pathfinding projects in simulation, design for manufacturing, and design innovation.
• Ensure smooth transition of technologies from AST to PDE for product development and commercialization.
• Lead a high-skilled engineering team; establish best practices, processes, and standards; mentor engineers.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Roadmapping

Cross-functional teams

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Materials/Physics

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Job Title: Senior Manager - Engineering Innovation & Technology

Posting Start Date: 8/18/26

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Description:

Job Overview

The Senior Manager, Lead Engineering Group (LEG) provides technical and strategic leadership to drive engineering innovation across our product teams and establish the talent bench strength for high-end technical capability growth. This role leads a team of highly technical engineers responsible for identifying emerging technology opportunities, addressing cross-disciplinary technical challenges, and enabling the technologies readiness for successful new product development (NPD) and transition of next-generation solutions for data center infrastructure.

Working closely with Self-Directed Business Teams (SBTs) and the CTO Office, the Senior Manager drives technical roadmapping, oversees pathfinding initiatives in design and manufacturing, and ensures to bridge technical gaps and problem solving in NPD. The role also serves a key integrative function across product development engineering and SBTs, helping build a technical talent pipeline and cultivate principal-level engineers with cross-disciplinary skill sets to support future growth.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Technology Leadership

• Partner with Self-directed Business Teams (SBTs) and the CTO organization to develop and execute strategic technology roadmaps aligned with SBT strategy.
• Monitor industry and market trends within the data center connectivity ecosystem to identify emerging technologies, competitive developments, and evolving customer needs.
• Identify technical capability gaps across disciplines and develop strategic plans to address them.

Cross-Organizational Engineering Integration

• Serve as a technical intersection point across SBTs, the CTO organization, and the Corporate Technology Center (CTC) to ensure alignment on engineering priorities and technology investments.
• Lead cross-functional engineering initiatives that require coordination across multiple product teams or technology domains.

Pathfinding and Advanced Engineering

• Lead pathfinding engineering projects focused on predicable simulation, design innovation and design for manufacturing (DFM).
• Drive technical problem-solving for complex engineering challenges that span multiple engineering disciplines.
• Evaluate new technical approaches and solutions to mitigate strategic engineering risks.

Innovation to Product Transition

• Ensure smooth transition of technologies and projects from Advanced Solutions/Technology (AST) initiatives into Product Development Engineering (PDE).
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support the commercialization of new technologies and products.

Engineering Leadership and Best Practices

• Lead a highly skilled team of engineers responsible for technical exploration, capability development, and cross-team collaboration.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices, development processes, and technical standards across SBTs.
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to engineers working across multiple product teams.

Matrix Leadership

• Provide technical leadership to engineers from product teams who maintain dotted-line reporting relationships into the Lead Engineering Group.
• Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across engineering teams to accelerate innovation and improve organizational effectiveness.

Engineering Talent Development

• Create and implement a talent incubator program to cultivate engineers with multi-disciplinary capabilities for new gen development.
• Establish development frameworks that enable engineers to build technical depth and cross-product expertise for continuous innovation.

Candidate Desired Profiles:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related engineering discipline required
• Master’s degree or advanced technical training preferred

Experience

• 10+ years of engineering experience in product development, advanced engineering, or technology development
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and cross-functional initiatives
• Experience in high-speed connectivity, cables, connectors, or data center infrastructure technologies strongly preferred
• Experience managing complex engineering projects from concept through development and commercialization

Technical & Leadership Skills

• Strong technical depth across multiple engineering disciplines relevant to connectivity products and manufacturing
• Proven ability to develop and execute engineering and technology roadmaps
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and ability to address complex technical challenges
• Experience working within matrixed organizations and leading cross-functional engineering teams
• Ability to identify technical risks and develop innovative mitigation strategies
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
• Passionate to mentor engineers and foster their capability growth.

What your background should look like

Generally requires Bachelors degree in appropriate field with 12 or more years of experience; or Masters with 10 or more years of experience; or PhD level with 6 or more years of experience; or local equivalent

Competencies

SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

• Competitive Salary Package
• Performance-Based Bonus Plans
• Health and Wellness Incentives
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
• Employee Resource Group

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.

Job Locations:

Job Country: India

Travel Required: 10% to 25%

Requisition ID: 155631

Workplace Type: Hybrid

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