Location: Boston Spa or St Pancras

Contract: Fixed term (24 months)

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: B

Salary: £32,619 per annum (Boston Spa) / £35,993 per annum (St Pancras)

This is the starting salary for this role, unless the successful candidate is able to evidence being in receipt of a higher salary, in which case this may be reviewed.

About the role

Looking for a new technical job with a bit of a difference? Want to help develop new solutions for preserving the nation's published digital memory? Then this might be the job for you! The British Library has an exciting opportunity for a new Technical Analyst to join our small team of analysts in our Digital Collection Management & Preservation department.

The British Library's digital collection is vast and varied, with everything from digitised manuscripts and books, to born-digital personal archives, eBooks and eJournals, digital electoral registers, sound content, the UK Web Archive, and much more. In total, the collection includes many millions of individual digital objects and millions more digital files, at petabyte scale.

In this role, you will apply analytical and technical expertise to digital collecting challenges, collaborating on key technical projects to develop practical solutions for managing and preserving the Library's digital collection. Specifically, we are embarking on implementing our new digital repository system and are looking for someone with good software development experience (predominantly Python) to collaboratively develop and implement our ingest workflows, as well as support their ongoing maintenance and improvement. We work closely with colleagues from many different parts of the Library to do this, including collecting areas and technology staff, as well as vendors. You'll need to have good verbal and written communication skills to ensure you can effectively discuss our challenges, solve problems, and offer guidance to a variety of stakeholders.