Job Summary The Licensing Specialist - SAM will be responsible for leading enterprise SAM delivery with a focus on Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft licensing. This role requires a strong ability to interpret complex license agreements, validate entitlement and consumption data, guide ELP preparation, and govern SAM processes for multiple publishers. The role will also support functional implementation and operational enhancement of SAM tools, while leading teams responsible for client deliverables and compliance outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Delivery ownership: Own SAM delivery planning, stakeholder governance, quality control, issue management, risk escalation, and reporting for assigned client engagements.

- Oracle ELP leadership: Lead Oracle compliance and ELP assessments across Database, options, Fusion Middleware, Java, EBS, or other Oracle products, including contract, metric, support, and virtualization interpretation.

- IBM ELP leadership: Guide IBM licensing reviews using Passport Advantage records, sub-capacity evidence, ILMT/BFI outputs, PVU/VPC/Authorized User metrics, and Cloud Pak or AppPoints considerations where relevant.

- Microsoft licensing leadership: Review Microsoft entitlement and usage across Enterprise Agreements, M365, Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and on-premises or cloud deployments.

- Agreement interpretation: Translate OMA, ULA, ELA, Passport Advantage, Microsoft Product Terms, and other agreement constructs into explicit license calculation rules and review assumptions.

- Tier-2 and Tier-3 coverage: Support additional publishers by applying structured SAM methodology for entitlement capture, discovery validation, usage analysis, and compliance reporting.

- SAM tool implementation:



Provide functional implementation guidance for Flexera and ServiceNow SAM Pro, including publisher onboarding, entitlement upload, model validation, license creation, reconciliation, and reporting.

- Discovery and infrastructure validation: Validate inventory completeness across on-premises, virtualized, cloud, and hybrid estates, including server, cluster, VM, container, SaaS, and user data sources.

- Optimization and remediation: Identify cost optimization, license harvesting, architecture optimization, contract clean-up, renewal, and remediation opportunities arising from ELP outcomes.

- Team leadership: Manage SAM analysts and licensing specialists, assign deliverables, review calculation logic, validate evidence, and develop capability within the team.

- Client communication: Present compliance findings, data gaps, assumptions, risks, and recommended actions to client stakeholders and internal leadership.

- Process improvement: Drive improvement in SAM runbooks, ELP methodology, data quality checks, reporting cadence, and control maturity.

Preferred Experience and Credentials

- Recommended 6+ years of SAM / ITAM experience with hands-on ELP, audit defense, or compliance review experience for at least two Tier-1 publishers.

- Experience with Oracle virtualization and cloud licensing concepts, IBM sub-capacity requirements, and Microsoft cloud/hybrid licensing considerations.

- Strong Excel and analytical skills for large-scale entitlement, deployment, and usage data reconciliation.

- Relevant SAM, publisher, or tool certifications such as CSAM, CITAM, Oracle licensing, IBM licensing, Microsoft licensing, Flexera, or ServiceNow SAM Pro are preferred.

Locations Job No. 14402051 | Pune

📌 App/Cloud Support Senior Analyst (India)
🏢 Accenture
📍 India