Principal Business Architect

Principal Business Architect

Location: Romania, Multiple Locations

Overview

At Microsoft, we help organizations reinvent how they operate by applying AI to solve complex business challenges and deliver measurable outcomes. Working with some of the world's most ambitious and forward-thinking enterprises, we combine deep business expertise, cutting-edge technology, and close collaboration with engineering and product teams to drive transformational change at scale.

As part of Microsoft's Frontier Company, a multi-billion-dollar investment bringing together industry, business, and engineering experts, AI Business Solutions helps customers move beyond experimentation and create lasting business value through AI. We partner directly with customers to design, deploy, and continuously evolve AI-powered ways of working that improve performance, accelerate innovation, and unlock new opportunities for growth.

This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of the Copilot and agentic AI revolution, helping some of Microsoft's most strategic customers reimagine how work gets done and how value is created in the age of AI.

Responsibilities

• As a Principal Business Architect, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, helping shape and deliver AI-powered business transformation strategies. You will work across customers, account teams, engineers, consultants, and solution specialists to identify high-value opportunities, build transformation roadmaps, design operating models, and ensure AI investments are aligned to measurable business outcomes. By bridging business priorities and technology capabilities, you will help organizations successfully navigate change and realize the full potential of AI. This role is ideal for experienced business transformation leaders, strategists, and consultants who are passionate about AI, thrive in complex environments, and enjoy partnering with executives to solve meaningful business challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, account teams, and leadership on AI-driven business transformation.

• Lead executive discussions, workshops, and strategy engagements focused on business outcomes and value realisation.

• Develop transformation roadmaps, operating models, business cases, and value frameworks aligned to customer priorities.

• Shape opportunities by connecting business challenges with Microsoft's AI, Copilot, and agentic capabilities.

• Collaborate across sales, delivery, engineering, and product teams to ensure successful transformation outcomes.

• Develop reusable thought leadership, methodologies, and assets that accelerate customer value.

• Mentor colleagues, share expertise, and contribute to the growth of the Business Architecture community.

• Core Competencies

• Strategic thinking and business impact

• Executive communication and influence

• Business transformation and value realisation

• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement

• Innovation and customer obsession

• Growth mindset and continuous learning

• Self-leadership and accountability