Principal System Architect - Industrial Sensors (m/f/d) EMEA Remote (#, BE, DE,

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About this role

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 Overview

The Principal System Architect - Industrial Sensors (m/f/d) is a global leadership role responsible for shaping the industrial sensors market strategy and product portfolio. This role works closely with customers, sales, product management, applications engineering, and R&D to identify emerging opportunities and define differentiated sensor solutions that drive long-term business growth.

As a recognized subject matter expert, the Principal System Architect (m/f/d) provides system-level leadership across the organization, translating customer needs, market trends, and technology developments into innovative product concepts, technology roadmaps, and executable requirements. The role serves as a critical bridge between customers, engineering teams, and business leadership to ensure solutions deliver meaningful customer value and sustainable competitive advantage.

Job Requirements

Technical Leadership & Application Expertise

Serve as the recognized technical authority for industrial sensing applications, providing deep system-level expertise and guidance across customers, partners, and internal teams.
• Translate market, application, and customer requirements into clear product specifications, system architectures, and development priorities.
• Advise customers on system-level trade-offs and optimize sensing solutions to maximize performance, reliability, cost, and ease of integration.
• Drive early customer engagement and design-in activities through close collaboration with engineering teams and technical decision-makers.
• Develop and deliver application-focused training programs to elevate technical knowledge across sales, FAE, marketing, and engineering organizations.
• Represent the company as a thought leader and subject matter expert through industry forums, trade shows, technical publications, and digital channels.

Market Intelligence & Strategic Insight

Monitor and assess market dynamics, industry trends, growth drivers, and emerging application opportunities to inform business and technology strategy.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape, identifying areas of differentiation and strategic opportunity.
• Leverage system-level analysis, problem solving, and customer insights to define compelling value propositions and solution strategies.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, disruptive innovations, and competitive threats to guide future investment decisions.
• Capture and communicate market and application requirements that align organizational priorities, product strategy, and technology development.

Product Innovation & Technology Strategy

Shape mid- and long-term product, technology, and innovation roadmaps by aligning customer needs, market trends, and application insights.
• Identify strategic portfolio and technology gaps and provide recommendations for future investment and development.
• Partner with Product Management, R&D, Sales, and Marketing to define product strategies, roadmap priorities, and commercialization plans.
• Lead and sponsor advanced technology initiatives that enable differentiated products and sustainable competitive advantage.
• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to business and product line leadership, influencing portfolio decisions and long-term growth strategies.
• Champion innovation through disciplined engineering, cross-functional collaboration, and customer-focused technology development.

What your background should look like

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline. Technical master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years direct experience within the industrial sensors market in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of sensor technologies and system-level integration
• Demonstrated experience working with customer engineering teams on technical solutions
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into practical, scalable solutions
• Capability to synthesize and simplify complex situations and drive organizational alignment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Familiarity with market-driven product strategy and platform development
• Ability to lead and drive initiatives in a cross functional environment
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to travel globally 25% travel.

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.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat,Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

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

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

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.

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