Technology Project Manager

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.

This is an exciting time to join the Museum as we expand our research capabilities and continue development of our new science and digitisation centre at Thames Valley Science Park, University of Reading. Within the Museum's enterprise IT function, Technology Solutions (TS), we are transforming our infrastructure and operating model to support growing digital and research demands through secure, resilient and increasingly cloud-enabled services.

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

We are seeking an experienced Technology Project Manager to lead the replacement of the Museum’s bulk research data storage and archive capability, supporting the transition from locally managed infrastructure to a resilient, scalable managed service aligned with the Museum’s hybrid cloud strategy. The project supports a multi-petabyte research data estate underpinning scientific research, collections, digitisation, imaging and computational workflows.

The Project Manager will be responsible for end-to-end delivery, including supplier onboarding, implementation, testing, service transition and data migration. The role will also coordinate improvement and remediation activities for the existing storage platform to ensure continuity of service while the replacement solution is procured and implemented.

Success in the role will depend on building strong relationships across researchers, technology teams and suppliers, ensuring stakeholders remain engaged, informed and supportive throughout the transition.

About You

You are an experienced technology project manager with a strong track record of delivering complex infrastructure, cloud, data or service-transition projects involving multiple stakeholders and suppliers. You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical communities, translating requirements, facilitating decision-making and maintaining momentum across competing priorities.

You will bring sufficient technical understanding of enterprise infrastructure, storage, data migration and cloud services to engage credibly with specialists and suppliers, whilst remaining focused on delivery, governance and stakeholder management. Beyond project delivery, you are skilled at building trusted relationships, navigating differing stakeholder perspectives and driving engagement across diverse user groups. You understand the importance of organisational change and can build support, manage expectations and help users successfully adopt new services and ways of working.

You are organised, proactive and outcome-focused, with the ability to balance competing priorities and drive progress in complex environments.

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.

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