M&A Collaboration & Security Platforms Engineer

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 buy a company, you're the person who scopes the migration, moves the users, channels, files, and configurations, untangles the acquired environment, and lands it cleanly inside Payward's security and identity stack. You'll work across Legal, Compliance, IT, Security, Corporate Development, and the acquired companies themselves, often as the most knowledgeable person in the room on how these platforms actually connect. This is a build-and-own role, not a keep-the-lights-on role.

Responsibilities

Drive collaboration-platform integration end-to-end for each acquisition, scoping, planning, executing, and closing out migrations of users, Slack channels, Google Workspace Drive, mailboxes, and configurations from acquired companies into the Payward environment; Assess acquired-company collaboration stacks during and after diligence; Rationalize overlapping tools across brands; Build repeatable playbooks, tooling, and automation; Coordinate cutover timelines and TSA-driven dependencies with Corporate Development, Legal, and the acquired teams; Own Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom at multi-entity enterprise scale; Build and maintain integrations between collaboration tools and the broader identity and security stack; Define and enforce cross-brand platform governance standards; Collaborate with HRIS and IAM teams to manage clean onboarding and offboarding across platforms and entities; Own email security infrastructure across brands; Manage a large, multi-registrar, multi-brand domain portfolio; Respond to phishing campaigns, insider threat signals, and anomalous domain activity with speed and precision; Lead legal hold management, eDiscovery queries, and data productions across email, Slack, and Google Drive; Architect and maintain compliant archiving infrastructure; Produce and defend evidence for regulatory and audit obligations; Design and maintain DLP rules, group access controls, and data access policies across collaboration platforms and entities; Lead insider threat reduction initiatives; Own platform-level incident response; Evaluate, onboard, consolidate, and sunset SaaS tools across the collaboration and security stack; Lead vendor relationships, procurement, and renewals; Build automation that reduces manual toil and improves 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 heart of the role; Solid email security experience: filtering, quarantine, DMARC/SPF/DKIM, impersonation defense, 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; You 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; You're comfortable making decisions under ambiguity, acquired environments are always messy, and defending them with clear reasoning; You understand that clean infrastructure is a security control, not an operational nicety; You work well across functions: Legal, Compliance, IT, Security, Corporate Development, and the acquired teams you're integrating; You communicate proactively, no backchannels, no surprises; stakeholders know where things stand; You manage multiple concurrent integrations without losing threads; You automate and systematize recurring work; you build things that outlast you, documentation, tooling, governance frameworks others can operate; You take ownership: if something's broken, you fix it

Nice to have

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