Senior Data Analyst

Natera; San Carlos (AZ); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term equity awards

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) with company match

Generous paid time off

Additional wellness benefits

Job summary

Natera is a global leader in cfDNA testing, supporting oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our goal in R&D operations data science is to support R&D activities at Natera through data analytics and the development of intelligent tools to optimize workflows and processes.

As a Senior Data Analyst on the team, you will design, prototype, and build a modern AI analytics platform to phase out legacy reporting.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in data analysis, analytics engineering, or software/data platform development.
• Proficient with Python for data analysis, pipeline development, and prototyping.
• Strong SQL expertise for complex queries and data modeling.
• Experience with modern AI tooling to accelerate coding and prototyping.
• Commitment to data quality, validation, and reproducible code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, prototyping, and building a new R&D analytics platform with scalable, self-service data tools.
• Utilize AI tools to accelerate development while ensuring code quality, security, and correctness.
• Extract, clean, transform, and model multi-source R&D data; optimize SQL queries.
• Translate requirements into automated KPI workflows and analytics interfaces.
• Collaborate with cross-functional R&D teams to meet analytics needs and ensure data integrity.
• Establish validation frameworks and automated monitoring for data outputs.

Skills

Python

SQL

AI tools

Data validation

Copilot

Git

Communication

Tools

Claude Code

Gemini

GitHub Copilot

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

LOCATION

This will be a hybrid role (1 day a week) working out of our San Carlos, CA location.

POSITION SUMMARY

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, supporting oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our goal in R&D operations data science is to support R&D activities at Natera through data analytics and the development of intelligent tools to optimize workflows and processes.

As a Senior Data Analyst on the team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, prototyping, and building out a modern, next-generation AI analytics platform to phase out legacy reporting infrastructure. In this role, you will leverage AI developer tools (e.g., Claude Code, Gemini) to significantly accelerate design, scripting, and platform prototyping. However, speed must be paired with engineering rigor: you must possess deep foundational technical expertise to critically review, audit, validate, and refine all AI-assisted output, ensuring production-grade code quality, data accuracy, and system reliability.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Platform Design & Rapid Prototyping: Lead the effort in architecting, iterating, and building out a new R&D analytics platform. Rapidly prototype scalable analytics solutions and modern self-service data tools
• AI-Accelerated Development & Rigorous Validation: Proactively utilize advanced AI tools (including Claude Code, Gemini, and coding assistants) to accelerate development cycles, automate repetitive coding tasks, and speed up platform prototyping. Thoroughly review, debug, unit-test, and validate all generated code and analytics logic for correctness, security, and efficiency
• Data Pipeline & SQL Engineering: Extract, clean, transform, and model complex multi-source R&D data. Develop and optimize high-performance custom SQL queries and partner with Data Engineers to enhance database scalability and platform performance
• Analytics & Insight Generation: Translate operational requirements into actionable insights, automated KPI workflows, and modern analytics interfaces that directly drive R&D decision-making and continuous process improvement
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with cross-functional R&D stakeholders and operational teams to understand workflows, define analytics requirements, and deliver robust data tools
• Data Quality & Governance: Establish validation frameworks, automated monitoring, and data integrity checks to guarantee absolute accuracy and consistency across all analytics platform outputs

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience: 2+ years of experience in data analysis, analytics engineering, or software/data platform development
• AI Tooling Proficiency: High comfort level and practical experience using modern AI developer assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Gemini, GitHub Copilot) to augment coding productivity and rapid iteration
• Analytical Rigor & Data Validation: Strong analytical intuition and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to independently evaluate, verify, and fine-tune data workflows, queries, and automated outputs to maintain high standards of quality and accuracy
• Python Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in Python for data analysis, pipeline development, and platform prototyping
• Advanced SQL Expertise: Strong expertise in writing, optimizing, and maintaining complex custom SQL queries
• Engineering Best Practices: Strong commitment to writing clean, modular, reproducible, and well-documented code using version control (Git)
• Agile Problem Solving: Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative environment, independently troubleshooting complex technical and data challenges
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams

NICE TO Haves

• Experience with modern cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) and analytics engineering tools (e.g., dbt)
• Experience building custom web-based data applications or internal tools (e.g., Streamlit, Dash, Gradio, or web frameworks)
• Domain knowledge in molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, operations research, or related biotech fields
• Proficiency in a Linux/Unix environment

Compensation & Total Rewards

This range reflects a good‑faith estimate of the base pay we reasonably expect to offer at the time of hire. Final compensation will vary based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

This position is also eligible for additional compensation and benefits through Natera’s robust Total Rewards program, including:

• Long-term equity awards
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Additional wellness and work‑life benefits

Compensation Range

$103,600—$129,450 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!

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/