Description
The Project Manager Engineering & Architecture will play a pivotal role in orchestrating and aligning Architecture, and Engineering Automation within the Hapag-Lloyd Technology Center FIS3 Engineering Department. This role ensures cohesive collaboration, technical governance, and engineering productivity across delivery teams to support enterprise-scale systems and continuous improvement initiatives.
The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of experience in IT delivery and governance, with robust exposure to architecture frameworks, engineering automation and AI. The role requires the ability to bridge technical and managerial perspectives — enabling high performance, consistency, and continuous delivery across diverse technology teams.

Responsibilities
Project Lead
- Lead a team of cross functional experts from the Architecture, Engineering and AI domain to drive different topics forward.
- Drive new initiatives across teams to increase developer satisfaction, architecture adherence and productivity.
- Facilitate cross-functional planning sessions, retrospectives,



and governance reviews.
- Ensure communication flow between teams in Chennai and global technology stakeholders.

Architecture Coordination
- Partner with enterprise and solution architects to ensure design consistency, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Facilitate architecture reviews, standards documentation, and approval workflows.
- Maintain visibility on system dependencies and integration patterns across global applications.
- Support technology evaluation and architectural decision-making for major initiatives.

AI Engineering Capability Build-Up (Developer Efficiency Focus)
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity across the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with engineering teams and architects to identify and implement AI use cases in coding, testing, documentation, and code review.
- Establish standards, governance,

📌 Project Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Hapag Lloyd
📍 Chennai