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# Software Engineering Manager

- **Company:** Natural History Museum
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £59,594.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Systems, Corona (Software Development Kit), Software Engineering
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f52796ca7a7e53a6

## About the Role

You are an experienced and people-focused leader who is passionate about developing others and creating the conditions for teams to succeed. You bring a strong track record of line management, including recruitment, coaching, performance management, and supporting career development within software engineering teams.

You are confident in coordinating delivery across complex environments, with hands-on experience of capacity planning, prioritisation, and stakeholder engagement. You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical groups, aligning competing priorities, and communicating clearly to diverse audiences.

While this is primarily a non-technical leadership role, you bring a broad understanding of modern software development and product-led delivery, enabling you to engage effectively with engineers and support informed decision-making. You are adept at identifying risks early, resolving issues pragmatically, and maintaining momentum under pressure.

Motivated by purpose as well as performance, you are excited by the opportunity to contribute to a mission-led organisation with global impact. You value diversity and inclusion, and you take pride in building collaborative, respectful team cultures where individuals can thrive. With a focus on continuous improvement, you bring curiosity, fresh ideas, and a commitment to evolving team processes, delivery practices, and ways of working.

## Description

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to play a pivotal role within the Museum's Software Engineering capability, leading and developing teams that deliver the services and platforms underpinning both our public-facing digital estate and core business systems. Your work will directly contribute to how millions of visitors engage with the Museum, while supporting our wider mission to inspire people to care about the natural world.

This is a people-focused leadership role, centred on building a high-performing, inclusive team and enabling engineers to do their best work. You will work closely with Lead and Senior Engineers, Product Managers, and stakeholders across the organisation to align engineering capacity with priorities, coordinate delivery, and ensure effective planning and execution across multiple workstreams.

You will take ownership of resource planning and delivery coordination, balancing competing demands, tracking progress, and proactively addressing risks and dependencies. Acting as an escalation point, you will help unblock delivery challenges, support incident management, and contribute to effective governance and operational processes.

Alongside delivery leadership, you will shape ways of working across the team - embedding continuous improvement practices, using metrics to enhance performance, and fostering a collaborative, supportive environment where knowledge is shared and individuals can grow.


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