Software License Specialist (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

Strategic IT Partner Management oversees managing the relationships to our strategic suppliers within the CIO/ COO area. This includes Professional Service Providers, Hardware, Software and Cloud Service Providers for the Deutsche Börse Group. As a dedicated function, software license management is an essential part of these activities.  

We are passionate in running our existing IT landscape and exploring every day what makes DBG as a company, and thus all our colleagues, run better – simplify and automate processes, use modern technology and devices, and make collaboration fun. We are driven by user experience, performance, stable operations, and a high degree of Information Security and Compliance. 
 

As a software license specialist, you will be responsible for control compliance towards our current contracts and license agreements. You will act as an interface between the different product areas, IT governance, and other central functions to manage the end-to-end software license management process. You are dedicated to your team and your team’s success, live our DBG Corporate and IT values, and strive to take ownership. Personal motivated egos are not embraced. You can deliver high quality output, and a positive customer experience, while meeting tight deadlines and handling multiple critical requests. The perfect candidate for this role will have a “can do” positive attitude, model cultural transformation by embracing and encompassing diversity and inclusion. Bring your curiosity and interest in life-long learning to all situations, mixed with a great sense of humor to diffuse challenging situations and an admiration for a challenging and fast paced environment.

Your responsibilities:

• You accompany the group-wide Software License Management process regarding license management topics and help key stakeholders to adapt their own activities to the process requirements.
• Act as a license management subject matter specialist for the company process stakeholders.
• Deliver license management services relevant to today’s changing technology landscape and market demands.
• Review current software licensing terms and conditions, license agreements and contracts to identify any breaches and/or any potential risks.
• Apply knowledge of licensing rules and use rights, analyse, document, and present licensing modelling recommendations.
• Liaise with service management, and process stakeholders to define, optimise, and develop license management standards, processes, procedures, plans and controls to ensure appropriate service asset information is recorded, maintained, and reported on.

Your profile:

• Academic degree in information technology, economics, business administration or similar degree in a relevant field of expertise.
• Experience in a software asset management/ license management role.
• Utilise SAM technologies and their capabilities including Snow’s License Manager, Flexera’s FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS) and/or USU’s SmartTrack.
• Interpret data outputs from the SAM technologies and other tools to provide accurate and timely reporting.
• Strong analytical skills, structured working methods and safe handling of license management topics, including detailed planning. 
• Independent way of working and a high sense of end-to-end responsibility in task delivery and result orientation.
• Experience in process management as well as in dealing with internal and external audit exercises.
• Customer-oriented and solution-driven working methods.
• Excellent knowledge of English in speaking and writing.