IN_Senior Associate_LMCC_ITRA_Advisory_Bangalore

Developing long term software management strategy and goals, implementing procedures for tracking company software assets, monitoring software licenses, and ensuring audit compliance readiness.

Requirements

• 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
• Roles & 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
• Other Competencies
• •Experience presenting to senior management executive level audiences
• •Strong written and oral communications, analytics, and organization skills
• •Self-motivated, goal oriented, and an innovative thinker
• •Maintain strong analytic, technical, and troubleshooting skills
• •Continuous improvement attitude ability to seek out and implement external leading SAM practices
• •Strong organization, multitasking and time management skills
• •Uses discretion in identifying and resolving complex problems and assignments
• •Works well in a diverse team and enjoys a dynamic environment where remote working is required
• Mandatory Skill Sets- SAM
• Preferred Skill Sets- HAM