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Job Description & Summary:

• Developing long term software management strategy and goals.
• Developing and implementing procedures for tracking company software assets to oversee quality control, and usage throughout their life cycles
• Monitor software licenses to ensure they comply with license agreements and usage standards
• Establishing and maintaining linkage with budgeting and procurement processes to track software acquisition, utilization, and retirement.
• Collaborate with departments management to define cost savings, software compliances and service improvement opportunities
• Ensure audit compliance readiness
• Drive continuous education awareness of company policies.

Responsibilities:

• Assess, design, and implement key process related to Software compliance
• Software license compliance for major software publishers
• Operations and deployment of SAM and SCA tools
• Contract & Spend management including Optimization
• Co-ordinate with multiple teams, like IT, Infrastructure Management, Finance, Procurement, Legal as required
• Work on automation areas for Discovery and Reporting
• Performing and interpreting gap analysis
• Develop risk remediation strategies
• Ensures license compliance is met, and that any noncompliance issues are addressed quickly and efficiently.
• Monitoring the Software Uses & Highlights what users are permitted to do with any software installed on their machine
• Interaction with software publisher, internal business team for software license compliance & terms

Mandatory skill sets:

• Hands-on experience on software asset management
• Excellent knowledge of the Hardware Asset Management process
• Strong experience with asset management and discovery tools like Snow, Flexera, ServiceNow SAM Pro
• Experience with developing, implementing, and refining SAM processes and procedures
• Good knowledge of the other Service Management processes, particularly Change Management
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Excellent English language skills (verbal and written)
• Experience working in a virtual environment
• Experience interpreting licensing terms and conditions, licensing knowledge and product use rights for defined software titles. Along with contract analysis and negotiation skills.
• Participated or lead in software audits
• Understand standards like ISO/IEC 19770-1; ISO/IEC 5230 etc.
• Ability to deal tactfully with vendors, suppliers, and contractors who provide a broad spectrum of products and services
• Highly competent at interpreting data, analyzing problems, and formulating solutions to present to management level and above
• Knowledge of Active Directory, virtualization technologies, network topologies, software vendor license agreements and licensing terms
• Understands and masters the software licensing for at least three big publishers like Microsoft, Oracle, VMWare, SAP etc.
• Familiar with Microsoft O365 or similar tools
• Knowledge around Free and Open-source software (FOSS) licensing

Preferred skill sets:

HAM

Years of experience required:

4

Education qualification:

B.Tech / M.Tech / BCA / MCA/ B.Sc / M.Sc