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Data Security Specialist
Abbott Laboratories · 🌍 Colombia - Bogota
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About the role
JOB DESCRIPTION: Data Security Specialist At Abbott, we promote equal opportunity. We encourage persons with disabilities to apply, ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Applicants must have a valid disability certificate issued by an authorized entity to ensure appropriate support and accommodations throughout the selection process. About Abbott Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to: Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Opportunity This is a contract role based in Bogotá, Colombia, within the Data Protection & Governance team and reporting to the Data Access Governance Operations Lead. We are seeking a detail oriented and proactive analyst to support our data protection initiatives, focusing on data classification and securing unstructured data in File Shares and SharePoint. This role is critical to ensuring sensitive data is properly identified, classified, and protected, while driving continuous improvements in data governance practices. You will help operationalize governance principles through tooling, analysis, and collaboration by applying technical expertise and strong analytical skills to safeguard enterprise data assets. What You'll Do • Operate and maintain data classification tools to identify and tag sensitive information across enterprise systems. • Analyze and secure unstructured data in File Shares and SharePoint, ensuring appropriate access controls and protection mechanisms. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align classification efforts with business and compliance requirements. • Monitor data access and classification coverage; generate audit-ready reports for compliance reviews. • Identify and recommend improvements to data protection processes, tooling, and governance practices. • Use advanced Excel techniques to analyze and present data insights. Required Qualifications • 2+ years of experience in data access governance, information security, or IT governance roles. • Hands-on experience with data classification tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Varonis, Symantec DLP). • Familiarity with securing unstructured data in File Shares and SharePoint environments. • Understanding of access control models, permissions auditing, and data governance principles. • General understanding of server and application administration. • Knowledge of identity and access management concepts, including Active Directory and Entra ID. • Experience with on-premises and cloud-based file shares, Azure File Sync, and cloud services (Azure, AWS). • Familiarity with virtual machines and how to access/interact with them. • Scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, VBA) and SQL for data queries and automation. • Familiarity with Regular Expressions for data pattern recognition and classification. • Advanced Excel proficiency, including: • Creating and customizing graphs and charts • Using Power Query for data transformation • Working with table objects and structured references • Connecting to external data sources • Handling Unicode data • Creating and editing macros for automation • Abi