.**Location: Location: Monterrey or Matamoros, Mexico**:** Applications from persons not living in Mexico will NOT be accepted.**The Data Protection Analyst is responsible for securing and monitoring all data accessed, transmitted and stored throughout the business and third parties. The Data Protection Analyst is involved throughout the entire data lifecycle, from inception through disposal, ensuring access to data is managed and maintained following rigorous security, engineering, and governance principles. The analyst works closely with business units and stakeholders to help with data access, ownership and enforcement of policies, rules, and safeguards. The analyst works closely with IT team members, information security operations, and third parties, and must be technically proficient with data protection technologies, including data loss prevention (DLP), cloud security, data classification, privacy, behavior analytics, encryption, and GRC.The individual must collaborate with technical and non-technical teams to design, implement, and manage data protection processes that reduce risks from insider threats and data breaches. The role is expected to be knowledgeable about data storage and identity and access management, and adept at understanding security architecture with internal and hosted services. Continual assessment and validation of controls is required to ensure protection aligns with policies, procedures, and risk oversight. Analysts support senior management to help maintain a safe and secure enterprise technical operation. Additionally, analysts work closely with incident response and security operations center (SOC) personnel when events and suspected incidents surface.**Essential Job Duties**- Serve on a distributed security and technology team responsible for establishing and maintaining data protection technical controls.- Align data protection policies and procedures with the corporate governance structure.- Work closely with security leadership, teammates, and stakeholders to evaluate and implement data protection controls that align with organizational risk posture and compliance requirements.- Support and maintain a wide range of data protection technologies, including but not limited to DLP, behavioral analytics, insider threat, data classification, data governance, and encryption.- Manage and test business rules protecting data, as well as the use and handling of data assets.- Conduct data discovery to locate data at risk, as well as validate existing data storage has not been altered.- Document data protection policies and exceptions, and periodically review with business units.- Make recommendations for improvements to ensure least privilege to data and rigorous security practices, without negatively impacting end-user experience or leading to employees attempting to circumvent controls.- Execute tactical requests supporting the strategic vision for rigorous and scalable data protection controls