Software Asset Manager

07 Apr 2024

Vacancy expired!

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a

Software Asset Manager for our client in the

Financial Services domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a

Contract position, and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Location: Westlake TX, Durham NC OR Merrimack, NH OR Smithfield, RI (3 weeks remote and 1 week onsite)

Role: Software Asset Manager

Primary Skills: Asset Management

Role Description:
The

Software Asset Manager must have at least 8+ years of experience.

Required Experience and Skills:

- Good understanding of software asset management

- Experience managing through the software licensing contracts and entitlement process

- ServiceNow knowledge

- Understanding entitlements and procurement

- Experience with managing large vendors (IBM, oracle, informatica)

- Managing key relationships with peer roles across the enterprise, including Business Application Owners, Service Catalogue Manager, Software Product Owners, and Procurement representatives.

- Accountable to ensure new entitlement purchases, true-ups, and maintenance renewals, including maintenance of contract pricing and negotiated terms.

- Collaborate to ensure licensing contracts are optimized based on usage and predicted consumption.

- Understand impact of maintenance / assurance, support contracts and requirements.

- Leading analysis, design, and requirements for IT SAM process improvements and feature enhancements

- Manage lifecycle stages of software assets from initial request - purchasing, deployment, maintenance - through removal from service. - Ensuring quality of software asset records within the Asset Management Repository, including Software Discovery Models, Software Product Models and Software Entitlements.

- Discover and establish a full inventory of software deployed. - Identify and correlate hardware and devices of the deployed software.

- Identify number of licenses, licensing scheme/type, and utilization of each discovered software. - Identify publishers for whom we do not have full license spend and see high-level where we are non-compliance.

- Determine number of licensed applications, and identify vendor, count, cost per license, and current license holders.

- Categorize all license usage: assigned in-use, assigned unused, unassigned, expired.

- Develop and analyze reconciliation reports to determine required actions to address non-compliant software installations.

- Driving reconciliation by comparing entitlements with discovered software installations to determine effective license positions for each in-scope publisher.

- Managed through a vendor audit, does not have to lead the audit, but experience working through audits with large companies

- Effective in identifying opportunities for improvement, prioritizing options, and recommendations

- Experience leading day-to-day operational activities for a Software Asset Management (SAM) program

- Experience managing IT assets throughout their full lifecycle

- Knowledge of software licensing models, including for large vendors (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.)

- Experience with asset discovery tools and managing associated data; to analyze and identify potential gaps

- Significant experience with SAM related platforms, tools, and integrations - including ServiceNow SAM and Ariba

- Experience as a member of vendor audit activities, including leading software publisher audits to closure

- Undergraduate degree, or equivalent experience

Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent

Experience: Minimum 8+ years of experience

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis (No C2C)

Recruiter Name: Sandeep Pal

Recruiter Phone: Equal Employment Opportunity

Minimum Education Required: Bachelor

Years of Experience Required: More than 5 years

  • ID: #49645546
  • State: Texas Roanoke 76262 Roanoke USA
  • City: Roanoke
  • Salary: Market
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-04-07
  • Deadline: 2023-06-06
  • Category: Et cetera