Job Description
• Jacksonville, Florida
• Operations
• In-Office
• 11055
Overview
Job Purpose
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and business challenges in the financial sector. ICE team members work across departments and traditional boundaries to innovate and respond to industry demand. A successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment demonstrating strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities and the highest degree of professionalism.
The SAM Compliance Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring software compliance and support audit readiness. Using ServiceNow SAM Pro, this role ensures that software asset management tooling and compliance management is operating effectively.
Responsibilities
• License Compliance: On-going review of industry and best practices of licensing changes as it related to internal systems and/processes to ensure proper license usage and compliance; End-user device, On-premises and Cloud Infrastructure devices.
• Contracts Review: Ability to review software vendor contracts to assess and determine licensing, usage and compliance needs.
• Audit Support: Prepare cost and usage reports for internal and/or vendor audits.
• Operational Improvements: Identity opportunities to improve operations via process improvements and/or automation
• Reporting: Generate monthly license position reports, dashboards, and financial summaries.
• SAM Compliance Tooling: Administration of tools such as ILMT, License Servers, SAMPro configuration (DMAP, SW Models, Entitlements, SAMPro Workspace), File Based
• Software Asset Management Operations: Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the software asset lifecycle, IT Asset Management policies, SAM procedures, the data model and functionality of the CMDB and software asset management tools in ServiceNow
• Understand License Terms: Thoroughly review and comprehend the terms and conditions of software license agreements and understand the systems we have to maintain compliance; including but not limited to open source and commercial libraries.
• Maintain Centralized License Inventory: Ensure completeness of software license inventory in a ServiceNow CMDB; maintain records of software purchases and licenses; work onboard and manage licenses acquired by other groups or through acquisition activities.
• Manage Overall License Position and Usage Tracking Strategy: Develop and partner with stakeholders to develop methods and implement systems/procedures to manage and track usage and license effectively; monitor how licenses are used and assigned within the organization.
• Conduct Regular Audits: Regularly assess compliance with license terms, identify any discrepancies and trends.
• Ongoing Compliance Awareness and Education: Continue to educate and train staff on software compliance, policies and tools.
• SAM Reporting: Continue to develop and maintain core data and metrics in the form of live ServiceNow Reports and/or dashboards.
• Software Discovery Management: Understand and partner with stakeholders to ensure the appropriate level of data is collected to support the SAM License Compliance Program; co-manage data enrichment from data/discovery sources to ensure appropriate data coverage; may manage and/or own discovery tools as needed.
• Prepare reports for use by ICE management and by external vendors/auditors.
Knowledge and Experience
Required
• 3+ years’ experience in Software Asset Management, end user, infrastructure and Cloud license compliance
• Experience with ServiceNow SAM Pro, including license workbench and reconciliation jobs.
• Administration of IBM’s ILMT
• Strong understanding of software licensing (IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, etc.).
• Strong license compliance experience
• Advanced data analysis using excel, excel formulas or other data analysis tools
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration, Finance or Information Technology
• Certifications in SAM (e.g., CSAM, ServiceNow SAM Pro)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to prepare and give presentations
• Ability to multitask and work independently on multiple projects
• Ability to perform well under pressure
• Ability to create diagrams, business processes, workflow and/or entity relationship diagrams
Preferred
• Working experience on Tanium, Axonius or JAMf
• ServiceNow Software Discovery Investigations
• Python, Perl or scripting skills
• AI-driven automation, prompt engineering and LLM integration
• 1+ years CMDB and Hardware Asset Management experience