IoT Product Architect
Vodacom
Summary
Location: Midrand, ZA. When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1. The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa. Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2026. Role Purpose/Business Unit: The Product Architect: Smart Utilities exists to convert strategic market opportunit…
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Location: Midrand, ZA. When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1.
The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa.
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2026.
Role Purpose/Business Unit:
The Product Architect: Smart Utilities exists to convert strategic market opportunities, recurring customer requirements and internal technology capabilities into technically credible, repeatable and supportable Smart Utilities capability packages for Vodacom’s IoT business.
The role is a technical specialist position anchored in Smart Utilities and Connected Infrastructure. It sits within the IoT line of business and supports pre-sales, business development and major bid activity by shaping reusable capability constructs, technical patterns, solution assets and domain guidance that can be applied consistently across opportunities.
Unlike a customer-facing Solution Architect role, this position does not own customer-specific end-state solution design. Instead, it provides the Smart Utilities product and domain architecture perspective that guides, supports and strengthens opportunity teams, especially in complex pursuits, large RFPs and strategic customer engagements. The role ensures that Vodacom’s Smart Utilities capabilities are technically coherent, market-relevant, supportable and clearly articulated for use in customer pursuits and proposition development.
Your responsibilities will include:
Smart Utilities Product Architecture and Technical Leadership:
Lead the technical definition and maintenance of reusable Smart Utilities capability architectures that align market needs with Vodacom products, technologies and partner inputs. This includes developing and maintaining:
Product-aligned architecture views
Domain blueprints
Technical capability packages
Integration models and interface principles
Standard implementation patterns
Technical standards guidance
Capability reference artefacts
Cross-domain architecture inputs
The role acts as the Smart Utilities technical anchor, ensuring that capability packages remain scalable, supportable, relevant and aligned to available enabling technologies.
Capability Packaging and Offer Enablement:
Drive the packaging of Smart Utilities technologies, partner capabilities and internal enablers into coherent, reusable capability offerings for use in the market. This includes defining and refining technical capability packages across:
Smart Metering
Digital Water Management
Non-Revenue Water enablement
Utility Revenue Protection and Assurance
Infrastructure Telemetry
Situational Awareness Centres
Smart Buildings
Energy Management
Utility Analytics
The role develops the technical intellectual property, standard patterns, use-case structures, capability descriptions and reusable assets needed to support proposition shaping, opportunity development and bid responses.
Opportunity Support and Technical Bid Enablement:
Support strategic opportunities, complex pursuits and major RFPs by providing authoritative technical inputs that improve solution quality and bid competitiveness. This includes:
Opportunity qualification support
Technical feasibility input
Technical risk identification
Gap identification
Build versus partner input
Technical response development
Scope clarification
Assumptions and dependency articulation
Partner contribution support
The role supports bid conversion by strengthening the technical quality and credibility of Vodacom’s response, while remain
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