
Principal Architect – ECD
Natera
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $182,900 - $228,600 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define and own architectural strategy across product lines, ensuring alignment with long-term technical and business goals.
- Design and evolve cloud-native systems with a focus on scalability, maintainability, observability, and security.
- Create architectural blueprints and reusable frameworks that guide teams in building high-performance services and user-facing applications.
- Act as a technical thought partner to engineering leadership, product managers, and executive stakeholders.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects, cultivating a culture of system thinking and technical excellence.
- Drive architectural governance, setting standards, conducting reviews, and managing risk across projects.
- Lead modernization initiatives, including migration from monolithic to service-oriented or event-driven architectures.
- Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies that improve developer productivity and system resilience.
- Partner with AI/ML teams to ensure scalable integration of intelligent services and real-time analytics.
- Work closely with teams to guide solution design, decomposition, and trade-off decisions.
- Support high-priority projects through planning, hands-on design sessions, and technical troubleshooting.
- Maintain a system-level view of infrastructure, services, and data flows to anticipate bottlenecks and scale risks.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 6+ years in a senior architectural leadership role.
- Deep experience designing and scaling enterprise software systems, particularly in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
- Proven success with architectural transformation initiatives (e.g., service decomposition, domain-driven design, platform re-architecture).
- Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs in system design (performance, resilience, cost, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with scientific, healthcare, or lab operations domains (preferred).
- Familiarity with LIMS/LES systems, AI integration patterns, or regulated software environments (preferred).
Benefits
- Annual performance incentive bonus
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud-native systemsarchitectural strategyservice-oriented architectureevent-driven architecturearchitectural transformationdomain-driven designsystem designscalabilityobservabilitysecurity
Soft skills
communication skillsmentoringtechnical thought partnersystem thinkingtechnical excellencecollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingrisk managementplanning