Software Asset Management Consultant (SAM Consultant)

Datacom; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working

Flexi-hours

Professional development courses

Job summary

Datacom seeks an experienced Software Asset Management (SAM) Consultant to lead consulting projects for commercial and government clients. You will drive licensing reviews, compliance assessments, and optimization using Flexera One, bringing 5+ years of SAM expertise to a dynamic team.

The role offers flexible work arrangements and opportunities to influence large-scale software estates across Australia, including government engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Software Asset Management with Oracle licensing expertise.
• Experience delivering SAM consulting services to commercial and government clients.
• Hands-on work with Flexera One installation, data ingestion, inventory reconciliation, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Act as Consulting SAM SME for customers and the SAM team.
• Deliver SAM consulting services and licensing position reviews.
• Lead license reclamation strategies to reduce cost and risk.
• Coordinate with customer teams to define SAM standards and controls.

Skills

SAM expertise

Oracle licensing

Audit defense

Stakeholder management

Tools

Flexera One

Job description

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

Description

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About The Role (your Why)

Datacom has an excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly experienced Software Asset Management (SAM) Consultant not to be missed! You will be joining an Award-winning SAM team within our extensive Australian Service Operations business. As a Senior consulting member of the SAM team, you will lead consulting projects and work collaboratively with the other SAM team members. This is your chance to bring your positive attitude and extensive SAM experience to make your mark in a business by joining this rapid growing team which has a vast variety of different SAM and Licensing skilled colleagues with a massive customer focus. This role has flexible work arrangements and is ideal for someone who is keen to develop their career by taking the next step to apply their experience in Software Asset Management consulting into multiple large customers in both the commercial and government industries. Please do note Due to the nature of Federal Government clients, Australian Citizenship and ability to obtain NV1 is required as part of the process.

What You’ll Do

• Act as Consulting SAM Subject Matter Expert for our customers and the SAM team.
• Deliver SAM Consulting services relevant to today’s changing technology landscape and market demands.
• Deliver and Assess Compliance Reviews (Effective Licensing Positions) for Customers.
• Deliver commercial and contract advisory services to customers in relation to their Tier 1 Software Publishers.
• Improve our customers audit readiness and audit defense posture.
• Review current software licensing Terms and Conditions, License Agreements, and License Contracts to identify any breaches or risks for our customers.
• Apply knowledge of licensing rules and use rights within SAM Consulting Services.
• Develop, Document, and Present licensing modelling recommendations to our customers.
• Lead the achievement of the outcomes of multiple projects and customer contracts.
• Provide quality customer service through adherence to Datacom’s Asset Management service delivery methodology and processes.
• Develop license reclamation strategies to initiate cost avoidance activities.
• Propose remediation and optimisation activities that may result in reduced compliance risk and/or financial savings and cost avoidance.
• Lead implementation, configuration and ongoing administration of Flexera One for inventory ingestion, normalization, reconciliation and license position reporting
• Perform license reconciliations, consumption analysis, entitlement mapping and optimization recommendations using Flexera One reports and dashboards.
• Interpret data outputs from the SAM technologies and other tools to provide accurate and timely reporting.
• Liaise with service management, and customer teams to define, optimise, and develop SAM standards, processes, procedures, plans and controls to ensure appropriate service asset information is recorded and maintained.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for an independent, proactive, highly skilled, and enthusiastic team member who’s interested in being part of a larger group delivering a high-quality SAM Consulting solutions to our customers. You’ll bring expertise developed over 5+ years in a Software Asset Management, especially with Oracle licensing and compliance expertise, as you will be undertaking a range of interesting lead activities relating to software licensing, audit defense, and compliance management with Tier 1 Software Publishers (Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft) on behalf of our customers. Demonstrable, hands‑on experience with Flexera One (installation/configuration, data ingestion, discovery, normalization, inventory reconciliation, custom reporting). You will also be leading the delivery of the Software Asset Management (SAM) managed services projects for multiple customers from Commercial and Government industries. This role does not involve software licensing sales targets. Your ability to work with other members of the SAM and customer management teams to develop and deliver quality solutions for our customer is critical to the success of our SAM Consulting and Managed services.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

• We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few.
• You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work.
• You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
• We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.