Director, Design System Engineering

Job Title: Director, Design System Engineering
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:

In this role, you will take ownership of designing, building, and optimizing our design framework that is critical to our platform and suite of applications from a software engineering perspective. As the design framework engineering lead in this space, you will work closely with design teams on building out the design framework, you will mentor team members across all the applications on how to use the design framework, drive design decisions from an engineering lens, and ensure best practices across the software development lifecycle. This role is ideal for a technical leader who enjoys solving complex problems and driving impactful projects in a collaborative environment.

Accountabilities:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of web application frameworks using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Less, Typescript, and JavaScript. that is critical to our platform and suite of applications
• Create high-quality reusable components for front-end interfaces in React and Angular.
• Ability to help implement and mentor on Accessibility standards
• Collaborate with collaborators to define technical requirements, propose solutions, and align on deliverables.
• Mentor engineers of all levels, fostering technical growth and knowledge-sharing within the team to help use and build within the design framework.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure consistency standard processeses for code quality, security, and scalability.
• Build and deploy re-usable front-end modules using NPM and assist in usability by other teams and engineers within their front ends.
• Monitor, debug, and optimize systems for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies, assessing their relevance and potential impact on applications.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years of professional experience in front-end development with a strong lean towards user experience design.
• Bachelors in a related field, i.e.; Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Web Development/Design, etc
• Best Practice experience in HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Less, Typescript, and JavaScript for building scalable and maintainable front-end components.
• Strong expertise with existing design frameworks such as Tailwinds, Twitter Bootstrap, as reference for custom design framework creation
• Hands-on experience with accessibility standards such as WCAG as part of WAI
• Expertise with NPM for module deployment for front end components
• Familiarity with visualization tools such as D3.js
• Ability to convert Figma to well-developed HTML, CSS, and TypeScript/JavaScript components and vice versa.
• Exposure to test-driven development (TDD) or behavior-driven development (BDD).
• Proven ability to mentor and guide engineers, ensuring technical excellence across the team.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical team members.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years of professional experience in front-end development with a strong lean towards user experience design.
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud Solutions.
• Experience with customized user experiences across multiple SaaS customers.
• Awareness of GxP processes for Digital Health companies.

Where can I find out more?

• Learn more about Evinova www.evinova.com
• Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/
• Follow AstraZeneca on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/astrazenecacareers/
• Follow AstraZeneca on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/astrazeneca_careers/?hl=en

Why Evinova?

Evinova is a global health tech business, separate company part of the AstraZeneca group. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment.  We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider life sciences community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients.  Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector.  Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

Total Rewards:

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $156,047 to $234,070.80. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. 

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.

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Date Posted

28-Mar-2025

Closing Date

10-Apr-2025Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.