[Hiring] Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager @Sphere Partners

Role Description

Sphere is looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager to support the development of a digital healthcare application. The project involves a mobile health solution focused on cardiovascular and pulmonary health, including wearable-device functionality. This is a hands-on role combining Business Analysis and Project Management. The initial focus will be on requirements discovery and validation, followed by structured planning, coordination, and delivery management.

• Review existing project documentation, identify gaps, and validate assumptions with business stakeholders.
• Lead requirements discovery sessions and translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Define project scope and prepare functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineering to validate technical feasibility, dependencies, and effort estimates.
• Develop and maintain the project plan, timeline, milestones, and delivery priorities.
• Establish and manage the Jira backlog, ensuring requirements are sufficiently detailed and ready for development.
• Organize Agile sprints and coordinate engineering, UX/UI, QA, and other stakeholders.
• Track project progress, manage risks, dependencies, and scope changes, and proactively address delivery blockers.
• Ensure alignment between business requirements, technical implementation, and quality expectations.
• Establish effective project management practices and bring structure to an evolving development process.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders and provide visibility into progress, risks, and delivery status.

Qualifications

• Experience combining Business Analysis and IT Project Management in software development projects.
• Experience delivering healthcare software or digital health solutions.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and scope management skills.
• Hands-on experience creating functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience managing software development teams and coordinating cross-functional delivery.
• Strong knowledge of Jira and Agile project management practices.
• Ability to structure projects from incomplete or ambiguous requirements and establish effective processes independently.
• Experience planning timelines, milestones, sprint activities, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including direct interaction with business and technical stakeholders.
• Proactive, organized, and comfortable taking ownership in a dynamic environment.
• Availability to work predominantly within European time zones.

Nice to Have

• Experience with mobile healthcare applications.
• Familiarity with wearable devices and health data integrations.
• Experience with regulated healthcare software, medical device development, or quality management systems.
• Knowledge of ISO 13485, electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS), or Verification & Validation (V&V).
• Experience leading projects with tight timelines, evolving requirements, and lean engineering teams.