Software Asset Specialist

About the role

Playtech, a London Stock Exchange listed gaming technology company, is looking for a Software Asset Specialist to join its FinOps & Software Licensing team. The role takes ownership of software licences, SaaS subscriptions, domains and SSL certificates across their full lifecycle. It is a hands-on position combining a practical technical foundation with organisation and independence, and is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity covering parental leave, with a planned start in January 2027.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of software licences and SaaS subscriptions, from request and purchase through allocation, renewal and retirement.
• Maintain accurate software inventory, entitlement and usage data in the software asset management platform.
• Monitor licence compliance, resolve discrepancies, support vendor audits and true-ups, and reclaim unused licences.
• Handle licence requests through the IT service desk, including approvals, provisioning and offboarding revocations.
• Assign user seats, support group-based provisioning and single sign-on, and resolve access and permission issues.
• Track renewal dates and work with Procurement to start renewals before expiry.
• Prepare licence budgets and forecasts, support purchase justifications, allocate costs and work with Finance on invoices, provisions and spend reporting.
• Manage domain purchases, renewals, transfers and DNS records, and the full lifecycle of SSL certificates.
• Partner with business users, IT, Information Security, Procurement, Finance and external providers, and maintain process documentation and regular reports.

Required profile

• At least two years of experience in an IT-related environment such as IT operations, service desk, system administration, DevOps, IT procurement or software licensing.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Organised, detail-oriented and able to handle several requests and priorities at once.
• Comfortable working independently in a geographically distributed team, investigating problems and proposing solutions.
• Open to learning new tools and processes quickly.

Required skills

• Technical understanding of Active Directory, single sign-on, DNS and SSL certificates.
• Confident use of Microsoft tools, especially Excel, Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint and Outlook.
• Extra points: software asset management platforms such as Snow, Flexera or ServiceNow, IT service management or ticketing platforms such as Jira Service Management, user provisioning and Active Directory groups, domain registrar and DNS management, and SAM, ITIL or FinOps certification.

To apply, submit a CV and a brief motivation letter explaining your goals, current experience and why you are interested, in the message field of the application page.