Senior IT Consultant Software Asset Management

Project overview

Senior IT Consultant Software Asset Management in Karlsruhe

Project details

01.12.2026

End: December 2027, option to extend

The service is predominantly remote; Frankfurt am Main is listed as the project location. The service must be provided in Germany (Onshore). Freelancers welcome, all must-haves met!

We are looking for a Senior IT Consultant for Software Asset Management and IT License Management. As part of a consulting project, you will analyze existing license management and develop technically sound target processes, solution scenarios, and a comprehensible basis for its strategic further development.

Task Description

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• Systematically record and analyze the existing organization, procedures, workflows, interfaces, and documentation of IT license management, and document the current state, including weaknesses, process gaps, media breaks, dependencies, and open technical questions.
• Evaluate documented and practically executed workflows using suitable best practices, conduct Fit/Gap analyses, and model optimized target processes, including process boundaries, interfaces, and control and handover points.
• Develop and comparatively evaluate strategic target and solution scenarios for organization, processes, control mechanisms, role definitions, and tool support, and document prerequisites, dependencies, advantages and disadvantages, impacts, and technically substantiated recommendations.
• Compare the existing SAM tool implementation with the developed target state and target processes, and document deviations and recommended actions; technical configuration, implementation, and go-live are not part of the scope of services unless separately agreed upon.
• Plan and conduct internal IT license audits for defined software products, license inventories, or contract items, and document the audit subject, scope, data and contract basis, procedure, findings, data gaps, deviations, and technical action requirements.
• Analyze optimization possibilities related to license management based on inventory, usage, and contract information, and develop documented action options; binding contract interpretation, contract negotiation, contract conclusion, and procurement decisions are not part of the services.
• Consolidate analysis, conception, and audit results into a prioritized action catalog and create an implementation plan with measures, technical rationale, expected impact, prerequisites, dependencies, logical sequence, milestones, and decision requirements.
• More than 5 years of practical experience within the last 10 years in strategic and operational IT license management and Software Asset Management (SAM), as well as their setup and further development.
• More than 5 years of practical experience in the analysis and modeling of license management processes, as well as in structured current state and Fit/Gap analyses.
• More than 5 years of practical experience in the conception, execution, and documentation of internal IT license audits.
• More than 5 years of experience in IT license management consulting in the transport sector.
• More than 5 years of practical experience in analyzing license inventories, usage information, and contractual license bases.
• Native-level German language skills.
• Start: flexible
• Remote: remote
• Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, DE, DE
• Languages: German