Problem with license when executing SoapUI from Jenkins Server

We are encountering problems when trying to execute SoapUI from a Jenkins server:

1. We already have an active license (generated from LicenseManager utility) deployed on the QA Jenkins server (/VIQ/DevOps/Tools/Jenkins/.soapui/activate.key)
2. The user account associated with this this active license key aligns with user account which starts this Jenkins job. This  user account is Jenkins.

However we encounter the following:

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17:14:04,856 WARN  [SoapUI] Missing folder [/VIQ/DevOps/Tools/Jenkins/.soapui/ext] for external libraries

17:14:05,128 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [/VIQ/DevOps/Tools/Jenkins/home/workspace/SelfService_SoapUI/test/api_automation/soap_ui/soapui-settings.xml]

17:14:05,897 INFO  [PluginManager] 0 plugins loaded in 1 ms

17:14:05,898 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] All plugins loaded

17:14:06,587 INFO  [LiquibaseDbInitializer] Initializing database..

17:14:07,169 WARN  [SoapUI] Missing folder [/VIQ/DevOps/Tools/Jenkins/.soapui/ext] for external libraries

17:14:07,172 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [/VIQ/DevOps/Tools/Jenkins/home/workspace/SelfService_SoapUI/test/api_automation/soap_ui/soapui-settings.xml]

17:14:07,204 INFO  [PluginManager] 0 plugins loaded in 0 ms

17:14:07,204 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] All plugins loaded
No valid SoapUI NG license exists.Please enter absolute path of the license file (.zip or .key):

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Any suggestions on how to address this?
What, if any, additional information is needed?

Thanks,

Bruce