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Collaboration Engineer jobs are open across enterprise software, telecommunications, healthcare IT, and financial services, from associate to principal and staff levels, with specializations in unified communications, cloud-based collaboration platforms, and AV systems integration. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Senior Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging Engineer - contract
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Duration: Initial 6-month contract, with a strong possibility of extension or transition to a permanent position.
Compensation:
- W2: $720–$870 per day (medical, dental, vision benefits and PTO included)
- C2C / 1099: $820–$980 per day
- No Third parties no visa transfer or sponsor.
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging Engineer to join a global technology organization responsible for enterprise communication platforms and digital workplace services.
This individual will play a hands-on role in maintaining, enhancing, and supporting a complex Microsoft-based messaging environment. The position combines infrastructure engineering, advanced troubleshooting, platform administration, security, regulatory oversight, and automation.
The successful candidate will bring extensive experience with both cloud-based and on-premises Exchange environments, Microsoft 365 services, enterprise email protection, and communications archiving. The role requires someone capable of independently resolving complex technical issues while contributing to infrastructure improvements and ongoing technology initiatives.
Required Experience & Technical Skills
- Minimum of 8 years of direct experience engineering and supporting enterprise messaging infrastructure, with substantial hands-on expertise in Exchange Hybrid and Exchange Online.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 services, including Teams and OneDrive.
- Advanced PowerShell scripting and administration capabilities across Exchange Online, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft 365.
- Extensive troubleshooting experience involving complex email delivery and routing issues, transport configuration, connectors, DNS, certificates, and email authentication protocols (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
- Practical administration experience with Proofpoint and Smarsh, or equivalent enterprise-grade email security, threat protection, and communications archiving solutions.
- Comprehensive understanding of messaging security, encryption, data loss prevention, threat detection, email retention, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience working within formal enterprise change management frameworks and executing controlled production deployments.
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities
- Oversee the engineering, administration, and operational support of Microsoft Exchange Online, on-premises Exchange, hybrid configurations, Microsoft 365, Teams, and OneDrive.
- Investigate and resolve complex messaging issues involving mail routing, transport services, connectors, authentication, and end-user connectivity. Provide advanced escalation support for critical incidents.
- Support and maintain Exchange hybrid infrastructure, including certificates, connectors, mailbox migrations, and activities associated with retiring legacy on-premises components.
- Perform advanced administration across Exchange and Microsoft 365 environments using PowerShell scripting and Microsoft Graph.
- Coordinate and manage Microsoft 365 application deployment and update activities through the administrative portal and cloud-based update management capabilities.
- Implement authorized production changes in accordance with established change control procedures and maintenance schedules.
- Monitor messaging infrastructure, investigate service health notifications, and take proactive measures to maintain platform availability and performance.
- Configure, administer, and optimize enterprise email protection capabilities, including Proofpoint filtering, threat prevention, DLP, and message encryption.
- Maintain enterprise communications archiving and supervision functionality using Smarsh Enterprise, including email and Teams capture, policy administration, and reconciliation.
- Maintain proper email authentication and deliverability controls, including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and messaging transport policies.
- Ensure messaging and collaboration services operate in accordance with regulatory obligations, security standards, and internal governance requirements.
- Develop and enhance PowerShell-based automation for recurring operational activities, system reporting, administration, and issue remediation.
- Participate in technical planning and architecture discussions involving platform enhancements, infrastructure migrations, resiliency, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Assess upcoming Microsoft 365 releases and roadmap developments, determining their potential impact on infrastructure, operations, and end users.
- Research and evaluate additional technologies for administration, monitoring, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and support runbooks.
- Work closely with infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, application support, and business stakeholders to address technical challenges and deliver project objectives.
Additional Qualifications (Preferred)
- Background supporting technology infrastructure within financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Previous involvement in large-scale Exchange migrations or the retirement and removal of legacy Exchange on-premises environments.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Purview capabilities, including retention management, DLP, and eDiscovery, as well as Microsoft Entra ID.
- Experience developing administrative automation using Microsoft Graph APIs, Azure Automation, and source control/version management tools.
- Microsoft professional certifications related to Messaging Administration or Microsoft 365 administration.
Pay: $125,000.00 - $152,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Please provide your LinkedIn profile Link:
- Do you now, or in the future, require visa transfer or sponsorship? (y/n)
- do you currently live in the greater New York city area (NY/NJ/.CT):
Experience:
- Microsoft Exchange: 7 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Jersey City, NJ 07097
Senior Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging Engineer - contract
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Duration: Initial 6-month contract, with a strong possibility of extension or transition to a permanent position.
Compensation:
- W2: $720–$870 per day (medical, dental, vision benefits and PTO included)
- C2C / 1099: $820–$980 per day
- No Third parties no visa transfer or sponsor.
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging Engineer to join a global technology organization responsible for enterprise communication platforms and digital workplace services.
This individual will play a hands-on role in maintaining, enhancing, and supporting a complex Microsoft-based messaging environment. The position combines infrastructure engineering, advanced troubleshooting, platform administration, security, regulatory oversight, and automation.
The successful candidate will bring extensive experience with both cloud-based and on-premises Exchange environments, Microsoft 365 services, enterprise email protection, and communications archiving. The role requires someone capable of independently resolving complex technical issues while contributing to infrastructure improvements and ongoing technology initiatives.
Required Experience & Technical Skills
- Minimum of 8 years of direct experience engineering and supporting enterprise messaging infrastructure, with substantial hands-on expertise in Exchange Hybrid and Exchange Online.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 services, including Teams and OneDrive.
- Advanced PowerShell scripting and administration capabilities across Exchange Online, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft 365.
- Extensive troubleshooting experience involving complex email delivery and routing issues, transport configuration, connectors, DNS, certificates, and email authentication protocols (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
- Practical administration experience with Proofpoint and Smarsh, or equivalent enterprise-grade email security, threat protection, and communications archiving solutions.
- Comprehensive understanding of messaging security, encryption, data loss prevention, threat detection, email retention, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience working within formal enterprise change management frameworks and executing controlled production deployments.
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities
- Oversee the engineering, administration, and operational support of Microsoft Exchange Online, on-premises Exchange, hybrid configurations, Microsoft 365, Teams, and OneDrive.
- Investigate and resolve complex messaging issues involving mail routing, transport services, connectors, authentication, and end-user connectivity. Provide advanced escalation support for critical incidents.
- Support and maintain Exchange hybrid infrastructure, including certificates, connectors, mailbox migrations, and activities associated with retiring legacy on-premises components.
- Perform advanced administration across Exchange and Microsoft 365 environments using PowerShell scripting and Microsoft Graph.
- Coordinate and manage Microsoft 365 application deployment and update activities through the administrative portal and cloud-based update management capabilities.
- Implement authorized production changes in accordance with established change control procedures and maintenance schedules.
- Monitor messaging infrastructure, investigate service health notifications, and take proactive measures to maintain platform availability and performance.
- Configure, administer, and optimize enterprise email protection capabilities, including Proofpoint filtering, threat prevention, DLP, and message encryption.
- Maintain enterprise communications archiving and supervision functionality using Smarsh Enterprise, including email and Teams capture, policy administration, and reconciliation.
- Maintain proper email authentication and deliverability controls, including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and messaging transport policies.
- Ensure messaging and collaboration services operate in accordance with regulatory obligations, security standards, and internal governance requirements.
- Develop and enhance PowerShell-based automation for recurring operational activities, system reporting, administration, and issue remediation.
- Participate in technical planning and architecture discussions involving platform enhancements, infrastructure migrations, resiliency, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Assess upcoming Microsoft 365 releases and roadmap developments, determining their potential impact on infrastructure, operations, and end users.
- Research and evaluate additional technologies for administration, monitoring, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and support runbooks.
- Work closely with infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, application support, and business stakeholders to address technical challenges and deliver project objectives.
Additional Qualifications (Preferred)
- Background supporting technology infrastructure within financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Previous involvement in large-scale Exchange migrations or the retirement and removal of legacy Exchange on-premises environments.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Purview capabilities, including retention management, DLP, and eDiscovery, as well as Microsoft Entra ID.
- Experience developing administrative automation using Microsoft Graph APIs, Azure Automation, and source control/version management tools.
- Microsoft professional certifications related to Messaging Administration or Microsoft 365 administration.
Pay: $125,000.00 - $152,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Please provide your LinkedIn profile Link:
- Do you now, or in the future, require visa transfer or sponsorship? (y/n)
- do you currently live in the greater New York city area (NY/NJ/.CT):
Experience:
- Microsoft Exchange: 7 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Jersey City, NJ 07097
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in collaboration engineer jobs.
- Experience designing and administering enterprise unified communications and collaboration platforms
- Proficiency with VoIP protocols, SIP trunking, and call-routing configuration
- Hands-on knowledge of video conferencing infrastructure, room systems, and AV integration
- Familiarity with cloud-based collaboration services and hybrid on-premises deployments
- Active vendor certification in one or more major collaboration platform ecosystems
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Collaboration Engineer Job Search
Align your resume to the stack
Collaboration engineer postings vary sharply by platform ecosystem. Tailor your resume to call out specific platforms, protocols, and integration work relevant to each opening rather than listing tools generically. Hiring managers scan for exact platform familiarity before reading anything else.
Earn vendor certifications before applying
Certifications tied to major collaboration platforms carry significant weight in screening. If your resume lacks a recognized credential in the platform family a job targets, complete that certification first. It frequently determines whether your application clears the initial filter.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists collaboration engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Quantify reliability and uptime contributions
Generic phrases like 'managed communications infrastructure' do little work. Replace them with outcomes: uptime percentages maintained, incident response times reduced, or user counts supported. Collaboration engineering is a reliability discipline, and your resume should read like it.
Prepare a troubleshooting narrative for interviews
Interviewers frequently open with a scenario where a voice or video system degrades during a business-critical event. Prepare a real example you can walk through end to end, covering how you diagnosed the layer where failure occurred and what you changed to prevent recurrence.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Collaboration engineering offers often differ most in what you own: some roles cover only endpoints while others include the full call-control stack. During negotiation, clarify which systems fall under your purview. Narrow scope can limit your growth and your leverage in the next role.
Collaboration Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most collaboration engineers?
Koch, Venable LLP, and Heartland Business Systems are hiring the most collaboration engineers right now, with openings concentrated in Illinois, Texas, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Enterprise technology firms and large healthcare systems tend to maintain the most consistent demand.
How many collaboration engineer jobs are remote?
About 75% of collaboration engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies by specialization. Roles focused on cloud-based platform administration tend to be more remote-friendly, while positions that include on-site AV system deployment or room-system installation typically require a physical presence.
How do you become a collaboration engineer?
Start by building a foundation in networking fundamentals and enterprise IT, then specialize in a collaboration platform through vendor training and hands-on lab work. Earn a recognized certification in that ecosystem, then pursue entry-level roles in systems administration or AV support. As you accumulate experience across voice, video, and messaging infrastructure, you develop the cross-disciplinary depth the role requires.
Can you get hired as a collaboration engineer without much experience?
Yes, but the path usually runs through adjacent roles first. AV technician positions, help desk roles supporting communication tools, and junior network administrator jobs give you direct exposure to the systems collaboration engineers manage. Building a home lab to practice call-routing configuration or cloud platform setup demonstrates initiative and practical skill to hiring managers reviewing early-career candidates.
What does the collaboration engineer interview process look like?
Most processes begin with a recruiter screen focused on platform familiarity and certifications, followed by a technical interview where you walk through architecture decisions or troubleshoot a described failure scenario. A practical or whiteboard exercise covering call-flow design or integration between systems is common at mid-level and above. Final rounds typically include a conversation with the team lead or IT director about operational priorities.
Where can I find and apply to collaboration engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to collaboration engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and the platform ecosystem you work in, and apply directly to each listing.
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