About this role
Location: Remote, Europe
Duration: 10 weeks initially, with potential extension
Availability: Full-time
Start Date: November 2026
About the Project
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.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.