Role: Senior SAM Licensing Consultant / Software License Compliance Specialist

Experience: 4–8 years overall, with at least 4 years of hands-on SAM and software licensing experience

Location: India

Employment Type: Full-time

- Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Software Asset Management (SAM) Licensing Consultant with strong functional expertise in software license entitlement management, license compliance, Effective License Position (ELP) calculations, licensing optimisation and audit support.

The candidate must have extensive hands-on experience interpreting complex software licensing rules, analysing software deployments and consumption, reconciling license entitlements, and identifying compliance risks and cost-optimisation opportunities across major software publishers.

Strong expertise in Microsoft server licensing is mandatory, particularly Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center and Exchange Server. Experience with Adobe, IBM and Oracle Database licensing is also required.

- Key ResponsibilitiesA. Software Licensing and Compliance
- Analyse software license entitlements, contractual terms, product usage, deployments and consumption to determine the Effective License Position (ELP).
- Interpret publisher licensing policies, product terms, licensing metrics, contract conditions and product use rights.
- Identify license compliance gaps, over-licensing, under-licensing and potential financial exposure.
- Perform license reconciliation, compliance calculations, risk assessments and optimisation analysis.
- Prepare licensing reports, compliance positions, audit evidence and management recommendations.
- Evaluate licensing implications arising from virtualisation, cloud migration, infrastructure changes and software upgrades.

B. Microsoft Server Licensing — Mandatory Core ExpertiseDemonstrate strong functional licensing knowledge across:

- Windows Server: Standard and Datacenter editions, physical-core licensing, virtualisation rights, host-level licensing and Client Access Licenses (CALs).
- Microsoft SQL Server: Per-core and Server + CAL licensing, Standard and Enterprise editions, virtual-machine licensing, high availability and licensing implications of virtualisation.
- System Center: Management licensing,



management servers and management licenses (MLs), applicable product editions and licensing dependencies.
- Exchange Server: Server licensing, Standard and Enterprise CALs, feature entitlements and applicable deployment requirements.
- Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA), Software Assurance, licensing entitlements, product use rights and relevant contract terms.

The candidate must be able to independently assess Microsoft licensing scenarios and explain the rationale behind compliance calculations. C.

Adobe Product

Licensing
- Understand Adobe Creative Cloud, Acrobat and other applicable Adobe enterprise products.
- Analyse named-user, device-based and other applicable licensing arrangements.
- Reconcile assigned licenses, user entitlements, deployment data and usage information.
- Support Adobe license compliance reviews, entitlement validation and license optimisation.

D. IBM Software Licensing
- Interpret IBM software licensing metrics and entitlement terms, including Processor Value Unit (PVU), Virtual Processor Core (VPC), Resource Value Unit (RVU) and other applicable metrics.
- Understand IBM sub-capacity licensing, virtualisation environments and ILMT (IBM License Metric Tool) reporting requirements.
- Analyse IBM software deployments and entitlements to identify compliance exposure.
- Support IBM license audits, compliance assessments and evidence preparation.

E.

Oracle Database

Licensing
- Demonstrate knowledge of Oracle Database licensing, including Processor and Named User Plus (NUP) metrics.
- Analyse Oracle Database editions, options, management packs and associated licensing dependencies.
- Understand the impact of physical and virtual infrastructure, partitioning, clustering and deployment architecture on licensing.
- Interpret Oracle contractual terms,



applicable licensing policies and entitlement documentation.
- Support Oracle license compliance assessments, audit preparation and risk mitigation.

Oracle ERP, E-Business Suite, Fusion Middleware and Java licensing experience will be an added advantage. F.

Software

Audit and Publisher Engagement Support
- Support internal software compliance reviews and external publisher audit or licence verification exercises.
- Collect and validate deployment, entitlement, usage and contractual evidence.
- Prepare ELP statements, compliance workbooks, audit evidence packs and remediation plans.
- Analyse publisher claims and reconcile identified gaps against contractual entitlements and applicable licensing terms.
- Assist in developing remediation strategies, risk mitigation recommendations and licence optimisation opportunities.

G. SAM Tools and Data Analysis
- Hands-on experience with Flexera One / FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS), Snow License Manager or equivalent SAM platforms.
- Understand software inventory, application recognition, license reconciliation, entitlement management and compliance calculations.
- Validate discovery and inventory data against licensing requirements and publisher rules.
- Analyse SAM tool outputs, identify data-quality gaps and translate technical findings into actionable licensing recommendations.

3.

Mandatory

Skills and Qualifications
- 4- 8 years of relevant qualified experience, including at least 4 years in SAM, software licensing or license compliance.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server licensing.
- Practical experience with System Center and Exchange Server licensing.
- Experience in Adobe, IBM and Oracle Database license compliance and entitlement analysis.
- Demonstrated experience preparing or reviewing ELP calculations and software compliance reports.
- Experience supporting software audits, publisher compliance reviews or internal audit exercises.
- Knowledge of SAM governance, policies, processes and operating models.
- Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise SAM tool, preferably Flexera FNMS or Snow License Manager.
- Strong analytical, documentation, communication and stakeholder-management skills.

📌 Senior Analyst - SAM (Chennai)
🏢 ICE Information Technology
📍 Chennai