Manager, Clinical Data Software Management

POSITION SUMMARY: The Manager, Clinical Data Software Management, will oversee and support all clinical data management and data software engineering operations. This position also supports overseeing the implementation and design of data schemas, data modeling, data ingestion pipelines, and workflows by all product and data mart specifications to ensure high-quality data deliverables. The Supervisor, Clinical Data Software Management, will provide immediate supervision to all staff within the Clinical Data Software Management function of the Clinical Data Operations team. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Function as the front-line supervisor to all clinical data management and data software

engineering/analyst staff. Oversee and take accountability for all daily operations.

• Serve as a subject matter expert by participating in cross-functional meetings to ensure

appropriate consideration of technical requirements to develop reliable and extensible operations-friendly applications, services, solutions, data pipelines, or reports.

• Translate technical plans into operational processes at the staff level and effectively guide

team execution to reduce delays in meeting project budgets, goals, and timelines.

• Oversee and manage the design alternatives, architectural proposals, code reviews,

software, applications, services, solutions, data pipelines, and reports verification, and provide timeline recommendations to the Director.

• Write software specifications based on product requirements and design and implement

software components.

• Analyze and fix defects identified within applications, services, solutions, data pipelines,

or reports.

• Create unit tests and coordinate testing within the Clinical Data Software Management

team, and all relevant cross-functional teams.

• Write SQL, Python, and ETL code to query raw and structured clinical and genomic data

for various clinical data management activities.

• Leverage AWS services and tools to design, deploy, and manage scalable data pipelines,

storage solutions, and processing workflows in a cloud-native environment.

• Create data marts, including performing data transformation and de-identifying,

maintaining, and automating/optimizing Airflow.

• Perform code reviews, provide relevant and timely recommendations and suggestions for

solutions to the leadership team, and, when appropriate, independently implement solutions.

• Continuously identify and lead the implementation of department/organization policies,

procedures, and best practices.

• Conduct performance 1:1s, performance evaluations, and five feedback focusing on

growth.

• Provide supervisor support in hiring and onboarding new hires.
• Build and oversee the development of automated solutions department KPIs and track

Data Management & Software Engineering team KPIs.

• Build and maintain ongoing working relationships with stakeholders, focusing on

building effective communication channels.

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of overall software development experience, preferably building complex

data or process management applications

• Experience working with SQL databases (Postgres, Snowflake, Redshift, Athena),

SQL, and ETL

• Must have experience with applications such as Excel/Macros, Quicksight and

Tableau or similar applications

• Must have experience working with AWS services like Redshift and S3
• Experience in manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
• Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles
• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data

extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets

• Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior

management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy

• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best

practices on software engineering

• 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 work independently, with little to no direction, and as part of a team
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• In-depth attention to detail and a fast learner
• Experience working with startup companies and respond to shifting

priorities and changes, along with experience working in regulated environments is a plus

• Ability to interact with various levels of staff and external customers
• Possess a high level of initiative and self-motivation
• Basic medical terminology familiarity
• Experience with object oriented programming languages
• Ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand complex data structures.
• AWS or other cloud infrastructure experience
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Openness to new ideas, programming, and design paradigms
• Commitment to diversity in engineering
• Healthcare IT experience

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. If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/ Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes. For more information:

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