Junior SIEM Data Engineer

State Street; Quincy (MA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Program

Educational support

Development programs

Job summary

State Street in Massachusetts seeks a junior SIEM Data Engineer to join the Cyber Data & Analytics team. You will assist with ingestion, validation, transformation, and documentation of cybersecurity telemetry and enterprise logs used for security monitoring and incident response.

Under guidance of senior engineers, you will validate data quality across raw to analytics-ready layers, work on data pipelines and ETL concepts, and help document data flows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, engineering, data engineering, data analytics, information systems, or related field
• 1+ years of professional or internship experience in data engineering, cybersecurity, analytics, cloud, or IT operations
• Foundational experience with querying, scripting, data analysis, validation, or transformation concepts
• Exposure to data pipelines, data integration, ETL/ELT concepts, data warehousing, data lakes, data quality, or analytics platforms is preferred
• Exposure to cybersecurity concepts, security monitoring, log analysis, incident response, or security operations is preferred
• Understanding structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data formats, including event data, log data, metadata, fields, schemas, and timestamps
• Strong interest in building a career in cybersecurity data engineering, security telemetry, data quality, and cyber analytics
• Entry-level certifications or training in cybersecurity, cloud, data analytics, or data engineering are a plus but not required

Responsibilities

• Support onboarding and validation of cybersecurity telemetry from enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud services, endpoints, identity systems, networks, and security platforms
• Assist with analyzing source data structures, log formats, field availability, timestamp patterns, and metadata requirements
• Support data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, routing, and validation activities under guidance of senior engineers
• Help validate data quality across raw, enriched, curated, and analytics-ready data layers
• Perform basic data checks for completeness, accuracy, freshness, schema consistency, duplicate records, timestamps, and field-level quality
• Use query languages and analytical techniques to search, validate, compare, and troubleshoot security telemetry
• Assist with identifying data gaps, missing fields, parsing issues, incorrect timestamps, routing issues, and inconsistencies between source and destination data
• Support documentation of data source requirements, field mappings, data flow diagrams, transformation logic, validation results, and runbooks
• Work with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and data engineering teams to understand data requirements and support issue resolution
• Participate in operational support activities such as ticket updates, issue tracking, testing, validation evidence, handoffs, and root cause documentation
• Support second-line troubleshooting for data engineering jobs, pipelines, and data delivery issues impacting cyber data platforms under guidance of senior engineers

Skills

Data engineering

Cybersecurity

Analytics

Information systems

Cloud computing

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ETL/ELT concepts

Data pipelines

Data warehousing

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Junior SIEM Data Engineer reporting directly to the Cyber Data Engineering Manager You will support the ingestion, validation, transformation, and documentation of cybersecurity telemetry and enterprise log data used for security monitoring, analytics, reporting, and incident response.

This is an early-career role ideal for recent graduates or professionals with foundational experience in data engineering, cybersecurity, analytics, information systems, or related technical areas. You will work under the guidance of senior engineers to understand source data, validate data quality, document requirements, and support the delivery of reliable security data for downstream cyber analytics and detection use cases.

Why This Role Is Important to Us

The team you will be joining is part of Cyber Data & Analytics, a function that is vital to the company as it enables cybersecurity teams to make faster, data-driven decisions and strengthen the firm’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to evolving cyber threats.

High-quality cybersecurity data is foundational to effective threat detection, incident response, risk reporting, observability, automation, and analytics. This role helps ensure that enterprise security telemetry is accurate, complete, searchable, and fit for purposes across cybersecurity platforms and data environments.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Support onboarding and validation of cybersecurity telemetry from enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud services, endpoints, identity systems, networks, and security platforms.
• Assist with analyzing source data structures, log formats, field availability, timestamp patterns, and metadata requirements.
• Support data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, routing, and validation activities under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Help validate data quality across raw, enriched, curated, and analytics-ready data layers.
• Perform basic data checks for completeness, accuracy, freshness, schema consistency, duplicate records, timestamps, and field-level quality.
• Use query languages and analytical techniques to search, validate, compare, and troubleshoot security telemetry.
• Assist with identifying data gaps, missing fields, parsing issues, incorrect timestamps, routing issues, and inconsistencies between source and destination data.
• Support documentation of data source requirements, field mappings, data flow diagrams, transformation logic, validation results, and operational runbooks.
• Work with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, and data engineering teams to understand data requirements and support issue resolution.
• Participate in operational support activities such as ticket updates, issue tracking, testing, validation evidence, handoffs, and root cause documentation.
• Support second-line troubleshooting for data engineering jobs, pipelines, and data delivery issues impacting cyber data platforms, under the guidance of senior engineers.

What We Value

• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and willingness to learn security data engineering concepts.
• Foundational understanding of data engineering, data analytics, cybersecurity, information systems, or cloud computing concepts.
• Basic knowledge of data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, validation, data quality, and data documentation practices.
• Ability to use query languages or scripting concepts to analyze, validate, and troubleshoot data.
• Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 1+ years of professional experience, internship experience, academic project experience, or hands‑on lab experience in data engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, analytics, software engineering, information systems, or IT operations.
• Foundational experience with querying, scripting, data analysis, data validation, or data transformation concepts.
• Exposure to data pipelines, data integration, ETL/ELT concepts, data warehousing, data lakes, data quality, or analytics platforms is preferred.
• Exposure to cybersecurity concepts, security monitoring, log analysis, incident response, or security operations is preferred.
• Understanding structured, semi‑structured, and unstructured data formats, including event data, log data, metadata, fields, schemas, and timestamps.
• Strong interest in building a career in cybersecurity data engineering, security telemetry, data quality, and cyber analytics.
• Entry‑level certifications or training in cybersecurity, cloud, data analytics, or data engineering are a plus but not required.

Work Requirement

• This role may follow a hybrid work model, with in‑office presence required based on team, business, and location expectations.
• Standard working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM local time for the employee’s designated work location. Flexibility may be required for occasional operational support, release of activities, incident resolution, escalation support, or data delivery of recovery efforts.

Why this role is important to us

Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end‑to‑end, next‑generation financial services company.

Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

About State Street

What we do.

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow.

We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to a flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility.

We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome the candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift program and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Discover more at StateStreet.com/careers

Salary Range

$70,000 - $118,750 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long‑term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid‑time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance‑based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.

Job Application Disclosure

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.