M&A Collaboration & Security Platforms Engineer

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, building a modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platform to advance an open, global financial system. The company is scaling fast through active M&A, integrating multiple acquired companies and their collaboration stacks into a unified and secure environment.

• 4–6 years hands-on experience administering Google Workspace and Slack at large companies (1,000+ users), including complex migrations and governance.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading technology migrations in M&A or systems consolidation contexts.
• Solid email security experience: filtering, quarantine, DMARC/SPF/DKIM, impersonation defense, and threat response.
• DNS administration and domain portfolio management at scale.
• Direct experience with compliance and legal workflows, legal holds, eDiscovery, regulatory data productions, and compliant archiving platforms.
• Ability to scope problems, design solutions, execute and close projects, especially under time pressure.
• Comfortable making decisions under ambiguity and explaining acquired messy environments.
• Understands clean infrastructure as a security control.
• Works well across Legal, Compliance, IT, Security, Corporate Development, and acquired teams.
• Proactive communicator; manages multiple integrations without losing track.
• Automates and systematizes recurring work; builds long-lasting documentation, tooling, and governance frameworks.
• Takes ownership and fixes issues promptly.

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.
• Familiarity with Okta and its integration patterns with Google Workspace and Slack.
• Experience managing large domain portfolios across multiple registrars and DNS providers.
• Exposure to eDiscovery and legal hold tooling.
• Comfort working in regulated industries like financial services, crypto, or fintech where compliance is mandatory.

M&A Integration (Core Focus):

• Drive end-to-end integration of collaboration platforms for each acquisition, including migration of users, Slack channels, Google Workspace Drive, mailboxes, and configurations.
• Assess acquired companies' collaboration stacks for configurations, security, and compliance gaps.
• Rationalize overlapping tools across brands, making decisions on migrations and sunset.
• Build repeatable playbooks, tooling, and automation for faster integrations.
• Coordinate cutover timelines and TSA-driven dependencies with relevant teams.

Collaboration Platforms:

• Own Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom at enterprise scale including architecture, governance, licensing, and daily operations.
• Build and maintain integrations between collaboration tools and identity/security stack (including Okta, Global Relay, eDiscovery, archiving platforms).
• Define and enforce cross-brand governance standards and build automation for secure operations.
• Collaborate with HRIS and IAM teams for onboarding and offboarding.

Email & Domain Security:

• Manage email security infrastructure including filtering, quarantine, impersonation defense, and DMARC/SPF/DKIM hygiene.
• Manage large multi-registrar, multi-brand domain portfolio; lead DNS migrations, audits, and consolidation.
• Respond to phishing, insider threat signals, and anomalous domain activity.

Compliance & Legal Support:

• Lead legal hold management, eDiscovery queries, and data productions across multiple entities.
• Architect and maintain compliant archiving infrastructure (Global Relay, Smarsh, Virtru).
• Produce and defend evidence for regulatory and audit obligations, working with Legal and Compliance.

Security & Access Control:

• Design and maintain DLP rules, group access controls, and data access policies.
• Lead insider threat reduction initiatives, access revocation, extension management, and public channel governance.
• Own platform-level incident response including investigation and containment.

Tooling & Vendor Management:

• Evaluate, onboard, consolidate, and sunset SaaS tools across the collaboration and security stack.
• Lead vendor relationships, procurement, and renewals; make build-vs-buy decisions.
• Build automation to reduce manual toil and improve governance at scale.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated. Applicants may redact or remove personal identifying information from resumes. The company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Payward is an equal opportunity employer, prohibiting discrimination or harassment based on protected characteristics under applicable laws.