M&A Collaboration & Security Platforms Engineer

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Building the Future of Open Finance

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.

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The team

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, xStocks, Breakout, and a growing portfolio of businesses, is scaling fast through active M&A. Every acquisition brings its own collaboration stack, its own Google Workspace tenant or Slack instance, its own domains, its own archiving obligations. Someone has to bring all of that into one secure, compliant, well-run environment. That someone is you.

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.

The opportunity

M&A Integration (Core Focus)

• 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: what they run, how it's configured, what the security and compliance gaps are, and what it takes to consolidate

• Rationalize overlapping tools across brands, decide what migrates, what sunsets, and what stays, and see those calls through

• Build repeatable playbooks, tooling, and automation so each successive integration is faster and cleaner than the last

• Coordinate cutover timelines and TSA-driven dependencies with Corporate Development, Legal, and the acquired teams

Collaboration Platforms

• Own Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom at multi-entity enterprise scale, 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 that makes the secure path the easy path

• Collaborate with HRIS and IAM teams to manage clean onboarding and offboarding across…