Senior Data Engineer

San Carlos, CA, United States

Senior Data Engineer:

Job Description Summary:

The Information Services & Technology group is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data & Analytics team. The role will participate in the design, delivery, support and maintenance of end to end data services, pipelines including data mart and data products. This role will forge strong relationships with stakeholders to lead, inform & resolve complex business challenges, continuously evaluate cutting edge data engineering solutions, influence the data & analytics roadmap and drive end-to-end implementation.

POSITION SUMMARY:

At Natera, we revolutionize the world of medicine by developing genetic products that combine cutting-edge technology and science. On top of that we want to accelerate the breakthroughs in research to improve care by offering our unique genomic and clinical data. The Senior Data Engineer will help translate business needs into data solutions that will be used to make critical strategic and real-time decisions. This person will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines using technologies such as Fivetran, Talend and Python into our Snowflake / AWS Services and transforming the data using tools like dbt. This person will also be responsible for ensuring data quality, security and performance of the data pipelines.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Understand business requirements, business processes and data sources.

Actively participate/interact with users and business analysts to understand requirements of the data need and reports.

Design and develop source to target mapping to support data transformation process.

Design highly scalable ETL processes and data transformations

Design and develop SQL views, procedures and functions, help develop reporting data mart.

Serve as a subject matter expert in Structured Query Language (SQL)

Perform complex data analysis with a large volume of data.

Collaborate with business analysts to translate data requirements into logical data models, develop ETL/data integration for data warehouse and data marts.

Responsible for establishing industry standard and best practices for data engineering and build reusable data engineering assets and frameworks

Responsible for the integrity and quality of data stored in data warehouses, data marts and business intelligence applications.

Responsible for creating design specification, technical documentation, data mapping and other training documents as needed.

Responsible for preparing documents that facilitate better understanding across all Natera systems and Data Warehouse such as data flow diagrams, data models, data lineages and other illustrations.

QUALIFICATIONS:

BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent experience

10+ years of work experience including hands-on technical experience with SQL, Python, database design and ETL processes

Minimum 5+ years of experience focusing on data warehouse or data lake or lake house  implementation with cloud platforms such as Snowflake or Redshift or similar.

Experience with data modeling, architecture, database schema design and data warehouse applications ( Star/Snowflake Schema, OLAP , Data Vault modeling etc.)

Experience with ETL or EL & T using Talend, dbt or similar platform.

Experience on building modern data pipelines - Ingestion, Profiling, Integration, Aggregation, Logging, Orchestrations, DAG, etc.

Experience working with cloud based data warehousing platforms like AWS S3, Athena, Glue, Lamba with GitRepo.

Experience handling sem-structured (JSON, Key Value pair) and unstructured data formats would be an advantage.

Knowledge or experience working with data cataloging tools such as Collibra, Atlan or Alation.

Knowledge of data visualization tools like Power BI, Qlik Sense, Tableau or similar

Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy

Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills.

Ability to understand complex data structures.

Nice to have AWS or other cloud infrastructure experience

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Openness to new ideas, programming, and design paradigms

Healthcare IT experience is a plus

Experience working in regulated environments is a plus

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. San Carlos, CA $110,700—$138,300 USD OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

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!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

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