Generative AI Platform Architect – Evinova

Job Title: Generative AI Platform Architect – 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 office is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.
Comprehensive relocation packages available for qualified candidates.

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.

The Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Operations team (ML/AI Ops) is a newly formed team that will spearhead the design, creation, and operational excellence of our entire Generative AI, agentic systems, and LLM computational AWS ecosystem to catalyze and accelerate science‑led innovations.

This team is responsible and accountable for the design, implementation, deployment, health and performance of all algorithms, models, Generative AI operations (GenAI Ops, AIOps, and LLMOps) and Data Science Platform. We manage Generative AI and broader cloud resources, automating operations through infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD pipelines, and ensure best‑in‑class operations – striving to push even beyond mere compliance with industry standards such as Good Clinical Practices and Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP).

As the Generative AI Platform Architect on our team, you will architect and oversee the global cloud ML/AI infrastructure that underpins our entire ML/AI value proposition. You will design, implement, and manage scalable cloud solutions using AWS services while establishing ML/AI governance frameworks, automating infrastructure with tools like AWS CDK and Projen, and conducting cost‑benefit analyses of foundation models to drive strategic decisions across the organization.

This position requires a deep understanding of cloud‑native Generative AI and LLMOps methodologies, AWS infrastructure, State‑of‑the‑art (SOTA) Foundation Models, prompt engineering pipelines, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) architectures, and AWS GenAI Services (Bedrock, Sage Maker for LLMs), and the unique demands of regulated industries, making it a cornerstone of our success in delivering impactful solutions to the pharmaceutical industry.

• Lead by example in creating high‑performance, mission‑focused and interdisciplinary teams/culture founded on trust, mutual respect, growth mindsets, and an obsession for building extraordinary products with extraordinary people.
• Drive the creation of proactive capability and process enhancements that ensures…