Position Title: IT Data Analyst
– IT Data Analyst - Software Asset & License Management
Location: Chennai
The IT Data Analyst - Software Asset & License Management is a technical role within the Global IT Software Asset Management (SAM) function. The role is responsible for engineering, operating, and optimizing software license management processes, data models, tooling, and reporting pipelines across the enterprise software portfolio.
The position focuses on technical license compliance analysis, entitlement reconciliation, usage metering, automation, and data-driven reporting, supporting key vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe (including Magento), VMware/Broadcom, TeamViewer, Zuora, Veeam, and other enterprise platforms.
- Connect/integrate data sources and build automated license and usage reports.
- Develop Power BI dashboards for compliance and forecasting.
- Automate recurring SAM processes using scripts, workflows, or AI tools.
- Maintain authoritative license data models including entitlements, contracts, usage, and deployments.
- Perform technical entitlement reconciliation between contracts, purchase records, and discovery data.
- Analyze complex licensing metrics such as user-based, device-based, core-based, and subscription models.
- Operate and configure enterprise SAM tools.
- Maintain software recognition rules, compliance calculations, and integrations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to improve discovery and data quality.
- Conduct technical compliance assessments for major publishers.
- Identify compliance gaps and optimization opportunities.
- Support internal and external audits with defensible evidence.
- Minimum 3 to 5 Years experience required
- Strong understanding of enterprise software licensing models.
- Hands-on experience with SAM tools such as Snow, Flexera, or ServiceNow SAM or any similar tools.
- Advanced Excel skills and Power BI experience.
- Understanding of IT infrastructure, CMDB concepts, and discovery tools.
To be successful in this position it will help if you are:
A person that is structured and has an analytical mindset. The IT and license realm is always evolving it is beneficial if you are curious and eager to learn. The role will interact with multiple colleagues across the globe therefore we are looking for someone that has strong communication skills, can interact and communicate about relatively complex technical topics with both skilled and also non-technical colleagues. A collaborative and service minded mindset is an integral part of our culture as well.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Fluent English required.
We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access.
As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.
As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
Let’s create a safer and more open world – together!
ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in access solutions with sales of SEK 150 billion and 63,000 employees. The Group has operations in over 70 countries and sales worldwide. ASSA ABLOY’s innovations enable safe, secure and convenient access to physical and digital places. Every day, we help billions of people experience a more open world.
We have a feeling of discovery and urge to innovate by working together and telling it like it is, enabling us to be always growing, never boring and leading right. Do you want to be encouraged to act, have responsibilities to grow with and opportunities to explore? Join us!
