We are a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health.
Head of Data Engineering, Real-World Data
Location
United States
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Head of Data Engineering, Real-World Data
Natera
Natera is seeking a leader to head Data Engineering and Platform for Real-World Data (RWD). This role will in partnership with Product drive the strategy and roadmap for the RWD platform and lead the development, operation, and delivery of data products that support clinical, research, and business priorities. The ideal candidate brings strong engineering leadership, deep technical expertise, and experience building reliable, scalable data platforms in healthcare or life sciences environments. This leader will oversee a team focused on data engineering, data platform development, and data delivery, and will partner closely with product, bioinformatics, analytics, and AI teams to build data solutions that are useful, reliable, and easy to consume across the organization.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related technical field; advanced degree is a plus.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering, including substantial experience building production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and data products, along with 4+ years of engineering leadership experience.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, and modern data engineering practices, including pipeline development, data modeling, workflow orchestration, testing, code reviews, and agile delivery.
- Deep experience designing and operating scalable, secure, and observable data platforms in cloud environments, with AWS strongly preferred.
- Experience with modern data warehouse and query technologies such as Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Athena, or similar platforms, along with strong knowledge of relational and analytical data systems.
- Experience working with healthcare, clinical, genomic, or real-world data domains, including environments requiring strong governance, de-identification, and secure handling of sensitive data.
- Experience building and operating data platforms with strong DevOps and operational practices, including CI/CD, observability, infrastructure automation, production support, and secure access patterns.
- Proven ability to lead and develop strong teams while remaining technically credible, with strong communication, collaboration, and execution skills.
- Experience partnering with research, bioinformatics, scientific, or analytical users to understand workflow needs and deliver effective data products and platform capabilities is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with bioinformatics pipelines, molecular and clinical data, and healthcare data models such as FHIR or OMOP is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!
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