M&A Collaboration & Security Platforms Engineer

About the role

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, xStocks, Breakout, and a growing portfolio of businesses, is scaling fast through active M&A. This role owns the productivity and collaboration platforms—Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom—across the Payward family of brands, with a focus on M&A integration. When we acquire a company, you scope the migration, move users, channels, files, and configurations, untangle the acquired environment, and integrate it into Payward's security and identity stack. You'll collaborate with Legal, Compliance, IT, Security, Corporate Development, and acquired teams, often as the most knowledgeable person in the room on how these platforms connect. This is a build-and-own role, not a keep-the-lights-on role.

Responsibilities

• M&A Integration (Core Focus):
  • Drive collaboration-platform integration end-to-end for each acquisition, including scoping, planning, executing, and closing out migrations of users, Slack channels, Google Workspace Drive, mailboxes, and configurations.
  • Assess acquired-company collaboration stacks during and after diligence: evaluate what they run, how it's configured, security and compliance gaps, and consolidation requirements.
  • Rationalize overlapping tools across brands, decide what migrates, what sunsets, and what stays, and execute those decisions.
  • Build repeatable playbooks, tooling, and automation to accelerate and streamline successive integrations.
  • Coordinate cutover timelines and TSA-driven dependencies with Corporate Development, Legal, and acquired teams.
• Collaboration Platforms:
  • Own Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom at multi-entity enterprise scale, including architecture, governance, licensing, configuration, and day-to-day operations across the brand portfolio.
  • Build and maintain integrations between collaboration tools and the broader identity and security stack (Okta, Global Relay, eDiscovery tooling, archiving platforms).
  • Define and enforce cross-brand platform governance standards; build automation to make the secure path the easy path.
  • Collaborate with HRIS and IAM teams to manage clean onboarding and offboarding across platforms and entities.
• Email & Domain Security:
  • Own email security infrastructure across brands, including filtering, quarantine, impersonation defenses, and DMARC/SPF/DKIM hygiene; raise the bar as new entities and threats emerge.
  • Manage a large, multi-registrar, multi-brand domain portfolio (Cloudflare, MarkMonitor, and others); lead DNS migrations, audits, and consolidation as brands are acquired.
  • Respond to phishing campaigns, insider threat signals, and anomalous domain activity with speed and precision.
• Compliance & Legal Support:
  • Lead legal hold management, eDiscovery queries, and data productions across email, Slack, and Google Drive for multiple entities.
  • Architect and maintain compliant archiving infrastructure (Global Relay, Smarsh, Virtru) as new businesses are onboarded and legacy ones sunset.
  • Produce and defend evidence for regulatory and audit obligations (17a-4, ISO, external auditors), working directly with Legal and Compliance.
• Security & Access Control:
  • Design and maintain DLP rules, group access controls, and data access policies across collaboration platforms and entities.
  • Lead insider threat reduction initiatives, access revocation, high-risk extension management, and public channel governance, especially during and after integrations.
  • Own platform-level incident response: investigation, containment, and post-incident improvement.
• Tooling & Vendor Management:
  • Evaluate, onboard, consolidate, and sunset SaaS tools across the collaboration and security stack as the portfolio grows.
  • Lead vendor relationships, procurement, and renewals; make build-vs-buy-vs-sunset decisions and execute them.
  • Build automation to reduce manual toil and improve governance at scale.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of hands-on experience administering Google Workspace and Slack at companies with 1,000+ users, including complex migrations and governance work.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading a technology migration in an M&A or systems-consolidation context, ideally more than one. This is the core of the role.
• Solid email security experience: filtering, quarantine, DMARC/SPF/DKIM, impersonation defense, and threat response.
• DNS administration and domain portfolio management at meaningful scale.
• Direct experience with compliance and legal workflows, legal holds, eDiscovery, regulatory data productions, and compliant archiving platforms.

Skills & Mindset

• Operate end-to-end: scope the problem, design the solution, execute it, and close it out cleanly, especially under the time pressure of a deal.
• Comfortable making decisions under ambiguity; acquired environments are always messy, and you defend your calls with clear reasoning.
• Understand that clean infrastructure is a security control, not just an operational nicety.
• Work well across functions: Legal, Compliance, IT, Security, Corporate Development, and the acquired teams you're integrating.
• Communicate proactively—no backchannels, no surprises; stakeholders always know where things stand.
• Manage multiple concurrent integrations without losing threads.
• Automate and systematize recurring work; build things that outlast you—documentation, tooling, governance frameworks others can operate.
• Take ownership: if something's broken, you fix it.

Nice to haves

• Experience integrating multiple acquired companies' collaboration stacks into a single parent environment.
• Experience with Global Relay, Smarsh, Virtru, or comparable archiving platforms, including onboarding and architecture decisions.
• Familiarity with Okta and its integration patterns with Google Workspace and Slack.
• Experience managing a large domain portfolio across multiple registrars and DNS providers.
• Exposure to eDiscovery and legal hold tooling.
• Comfort in a regulated industry (financial services, crypto, fintech), where compliance isn't optional.

Pay

Compensation Range: $110,400 - $220,800