**Senior Data Platform Engineer (GCP/BigQuery, Dagster/dbt)** Our Mission: To Save Lives Our Vision: Rethink the Ordinary IMPROV Learning is a leader in innovative and engaging educational solutions. We combine entertainment and education to create programs that make complex topics more accessible, engaging, and impactful. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to stabilize and modernize our reporting/data platform for an online driver\-safety education business. You will design, build, and operate reliable data pipelines and models on BigQuery that power \>200 compliance reports to DMVs, insurers, and partners, replacing brittle scripts with tested, observable workflows and enabling a lightweight self\-service layer for operations and compliance. Key Responsibilities * Own the end\-to\-end design, build, and operation of data pipelines ingesting from LMS, e\-commerce, and marketing systems into BigQuery * Refactor legacy jobs into versioned dbt models with robust testing and documentation * Implement orchestration with Dagster (or similar) including scheduling, dependencies, retries, and backfills * Establish monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure SLA compliance and rapid incident response * Build parameterized report templates that render CSV/XLSX/XML with SFTP/API/email delivery and auditable logs * Define and enforce data contracts and schema evolution practices with source systems * Optimize BigQuery performance and cost via partitioning, clustering, and query/job best practices * Implement security, IAM, secrets management, and PII safeguards in GCP * Partner with operations/compliance to expose curated datasets and safe self\-service entry points * Produce clear ERDs, data dictionaries, pipeline diagrams, and knowledge\-transfer materials Technical Requirements * Python for ingestion, transformation, templated exports, and automation * SQL (BigQuery) with strong optimization strategies (partitioning, clustering, materialized views) * Orchestration with Dagster preferred (Airflow/Prefect acceptable) for production scheduling and reliability * dbt for modeling, testing, documentation, and lineage * GCP services including BigQuery, Cloud Storage; comfort with Cloud Run/Functions a plus * File and transport protocols (SFTP/FTPS, REST APIs, webhooks) and formats (CSV/XLSX/XML) including PGP/GPG encryption * Observability and alerting using Dagster and/or GCP Logging/Monitoring; Git\-based CI/CD workflows Nice To Have * Connector tooling (Airbyte, Fivetran, Google Apps Script or similar) * BI enablement experience (Looker, Power BI) for internal analytics * Data quality frameworks (Great Expectations) alongside dbt tests * Familiarity with LMS/e\-commerce data and compliance reporting specifications Qualifications * 5–8\+ years of data engineering experience delivering production\-grade pipelines on a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery strongly preferred) * Demonstrated ability to convert under\-documented, script\-heavy workflows into tested, observable, maintainable platforms * Proven success operating pipelines with SLAs, including monitoring, incident response, and postmortems * Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non\-technical stakeholders * High ownership, pragmatic problem solving, and a track record of shipping reliable data systems WHY JOIN US? We’re re\-thinking the extraordinary mission to save lives! As an established e\-learning company with a 25\-year history of serving 4 million students, we are just getting started \-\- and we need YOU to help us DRIVE the future. Five\-time Winner of Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies IN AMERICA and Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in LA are some accomplishments that make us cheer. And what really makes us proud is working with extraordinary individuals every day who are ready to help us in our mission to save lives with engaging training content. Investing into our innovation principle, we’re building a startup within our own organization to disrupt the teen driver education market and build bridges into the future of what driving will look like. If you’re the kind of person who never settled, has a thirst for knowledge, and loves what you do, join us! Together, let’s drive the future! OUR MISSION \& CULTURE We believe in thinking differently. We believe in challenging the status quo. We believe that Good is the Enemy of Great. We had an idea 25 years ago that changed the training industry forever. The notion was simple: the more you enjoy learning, the more you’ll remember. Our training programs were created in partnership with the World\-Famous Improv Comedy Club to make training Fun, Fast, and Effective. Since then, our unique edutainment courses have won copious accolades from Over 4 million students, and a number of effectiveness studies later, we’re proud to say that we were right, we do SAVE LIVES! We save lives through innovative safety training and education. We work with large employers, government agencies, and individuals to deliver unique E\-learning programs. We are proud of our accomplishments as a 4\-time winner of INC 5000‘s fastest\-growing companies in US; Top 100 fastest growing in LA County, and we are just getting started. If you are a driven individual who is passionate about People, Culture, and Community and agree with the perspective below, we would love to hear from you: * Never Settle – You are always interested in what’s next, you celebrate your wins while exploring the next adventure. * Thirst for Knowledge – You love to learn and grow! * Love What You Do – You enjoy what you do and have fun doing it. You take enormous pride and pleasure in your work. * Extreme Ownership – The buck stops with you; you are a leader leading your team to success In summary \- If our story could be told in a fable, it would go something like this: A traveler came upon three men working. He asked the first man what he was doing and the man said he was laying bricks. He asked the second man the same question and he said he was putting up a wall. When he got to the third man and asked him what he was doing he said he was building a cathedral. If you don’t mind moving bricks to build a beautiful cathedral, we want you on our team. Job Type: Full\-time