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Sr. Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Data & AI Engineering
About this role
About the Role Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, serving patients across oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our Data & AI organization builds the enterprise data platform and AI systems that turn clinical, genomic, and operational data into products that improve patient care and accelerate the business. We are looking for a Data & AI Engineering Tech Lead to set the technical direction for a solutions team that builds analytics and AI solutions directly for business stakeholders: data and AI pipelines, data models, semantic layers, and the agents, dashboards, and data products that sit on top of them.
This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role: you will write production code, own architecture and design decisions for the solutions your team delivers, and raise the engineering bar through design leadership, code review, and mentorship. This team is AI-native by design. We expect engineers to use AI coding harnesses and agentic tooling as a core part of how they build, test, document, and operate solutions, and we expect the Tech Lead to model and scale those practices across the team.
You will work in a regulated environment where data quality, lineage, and privacy are core requirements of every solution we ship. The ideal candidate is a strong engineer first, with a product mindset toward business outcomes, the judgment to make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs, and the communication skills to align engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders around them. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the technical design and architecture for the analytics and AI solutions your team delivers; drive design reviews and make build-vs-buy and technology decisions in partnership with the data platform and architecture teams.
Translate business stakeholder needs into well-scoped technical designs, breaking down complex analytics initiatives into deliverable milestones for the team. Establish and enforce engineering standards for modeling, pipeline design, testing, CI/CD, and observability so solutions are built consistently and reusably across business domains. Hands-On Solutions Engineering Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and transformations on our cloud data platform, sourcing clinical, laboratory, operational, and commercial data to serve business analytics.