Senior Software Asset Manager: Compliance & Optimization

Tata Consultancy Services; Taguig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Philippines invites an experienced Software Asset Management professional to lead the SAM lifecycle, from procurement to retirement, across on-prem and SaaS licenses. The role emphasizes governance, audits, and cost optimization within a complex licensing environment.

You will implement license governance, drive audits, optimize spend, maintain CMDB integrations, and provide strategic advisory to stakeholders on licensing models and vendor negotiations.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in SAM/ITAM/License Management or IT Operations.
• Experience handling Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Adobe, VMware, and SaaS licensing environments.
• Strong experience in software audits, compliance management, and vendor negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end SAM lifecycle: acquisition, deployment, utilization, renewal, retirement.
• Maintain centralized license inventory integrated with CMDB and asset systems.
• Perform regular license reconciliations between installations, procurement, and entitlement data.
• Monitor license compliance and adherence to licensing agreements and regulations.
• Identify and remediate compliance risks, unauthorized installations, and over/underutilized licenses.
• Provide L2/L3 operational support for software incidents and changes.
• Coordinate with publishers and vendors to resolve licensing issues and escalations.
• Monitor license consumption, configuration drift, and application health via dashboards.
• Generate utilization, compliance, audit-readiness, and optimization reports.
• Plan patching, upgrades, and hotfixes with change management processes.
• Maintain patch records, rollback plans, and audit trails for software changes.
• Manage SaaS subscriptions, upgrades, entitlement validations, and user communications.

Skills

Software Asset Management

Vendor negotiations

License compliance

Audits

CMDB integration

Tools

CMDB

License management tools

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Philippines invites an experienced Software Asset Management professional to lead the SAM lifecycle, from procurement to retirement, across on-prem and SaaS licenses. The role emphasizes governance, audits, and cost optimization within a complex licensing environment.

You will implement license governance, drive audits, optimize spend, maintain CMDB integrations, and provide strategic advisory to stakeholders on licensing models and vendor negotiations.