Senior Creative Technologist - Evinova

Job Title: Senior Creative Technologist - Evinova
Location: Gaithersburg, MD

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe. 

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects. 

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges?  Then Evinova, a global health tech business might be for you!  

Transform patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector. 

Introduction to Role:

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Creative Technologist with an engineering background who excels at rapidly prototyping and testing AI, web-based, and other concepts. Your primary responsibility will be turning business challenges into minimal, experimental technical solutions that can validate or invalidate hypotheses within exceptionally short timeframes. This role requires someone who can build quickly, test effectively, analyze results objectively, and make clear recommendations about whether to pivot, persevere, or abandon concepts. You'll need to balance creativity with practicality, building just enough to learn while resisting the urge to perfect unproven ideas. Success in this role means developing numerous prototypes, most of which will fail—but failing quickly and inexpensively to discover the few breakthroughs worth pursuing further.

Accountabilities:

We value speed of learning over perfection of execution in our prototyping work. We're looking for someone who can build quickly, test thoroughly, and—most importantly—make clear, unbiased determinations about which technological approaches deserve further investment. The ideal candidate finds satisfaction in the process of discovery itself, understanding that a well-documented failed prototype often provides more business value than a polished implementation of an unproven concept. We encourage applications from individuals who have demonstrated the ability to balance creative exploration with pragmatic evaluation.

• Quickly create code and/or no-code prototypes to test solutions, often completing initial versions in days rather than weeks.
• Stay on top of emerging technologies and trends to strategically incorporate into new business solutions, with a particular emphasis on practical application of AI.
• Design and implement tests to validate key assumptions behind each prototype.
• Make clear recommendations about which prototypes to invest in or abandon.
• Balance speed with quality for valid testing results without extra polish.
• Implement front-end experiences with basic functionality for concept testing.
• Develop modular prototypes that can be easily modified based on feedback.
• Document insights from experiments to build organizational knowledge.
• Communicate technical concepts and results to non-technical stakeholders.
• Train team members in prototyping methods and evaluation techniques.
• Establish metrics to objectively determine prototype success or failure.
• Utilize technology only when it serves a clear purpose.
• Building, sharing, and using design components and libraries (design libraries, design systems) for rapid prototyping
• Helping the company get better at rapidly testing ideas by creating frameworks, design kits, testing playbooks, etc.