Job Description

Job reference:

000650

Salary:

54,366 per annum

Department:

Digital, Data and Informatics

Location:

South Kensington

Employment type:

Fixed term contract

Hours Per Week:

36 hours

Closing date:

25/01/2026

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About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.


Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.


We employ 1100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.


We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

It has never been more important to make our towns and cities healthy and sustainable places to live. The Natural History Museum's Urban Nature Project (UNP) aims to give people across the UK, no matter who they are or where they live, the motivation and tools to safeguard nature in towns and cities, so that people and planet can thrive.


The Data Ecosystem is the museums flagship collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The platform brings together UK biodiversity data from a broad coverage of sources, such as acoustic sensors and DNA samples, and uses intelligent tooling to enable people from across the academic spectrum to manage, enrich, and analyse the vast connected data set, accelerating our capabilities for scientific discoveries.





At the museum you'll find a culture that is inclusive, diverse, supportive, and fun. You will have opportunities to connect with the other communities in the museum, such as scientists, researchers, educators, and more. You'll have access to both the rich heritage and the modern purpose that the museum embraces and promotes.


The Museum supports a hybrid work model, combining work-from-home with on-site activities each week, as arranged by each functional team.

About you

We are looking for an accomplished back-end senior engineer to join a collaborative, cross-discipline team that is dedicated to driving technical innovation and delivering a pioneering world-class science data product for the Museum - the Data Ecosystem. This role will also take on tech lead responsibilities, and can take ownership of the implementation approach and propose architectural solutions within AWS/Terraform to support the priorities agreed by the PM.


You will be directly influencing the technical proposals and direction of the roadmap as we enter the intelligent analysis phase of the partnership - expertise or interest in AI systems would be beneficial for this role. As part of this collaboration, you will benefit from direct access to AWS experts, events, training and certification opportunities. You can read more about the NHM partnership with AWS here.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum's values and forms the framework for the way we work.

What we offer

27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent) Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%) Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan Life insurance Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK. Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential. Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

Hybrid working

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.

How to apply

Please note that as part of our commitment to anonymised shortlisting, panels

do not

view CVs during the recruitment process. If you choose to upload your CV, our system will automatically pull information from your CV into our application form. We advise you to double-check your application form data before submitting as the tool may interpret CVs differently.


Closing date: 23:59, 25 January 2026


Interviews expected w/c 02 February 2026


Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.