Overview
Lead Visualisation Engineer – Leeds, LS11 5AD
Job Title
Lead Visualisation Engineer
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category
Data Science
Closing Date
11 October 2025
This role requires on-site presence at Asda House in Leeds three days per week. We’re really looking forward to having you around!
We’re looking for a Lead Visualisation Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. As the most senior Visualisation Engineer in the Power Platform Team, you’ll blend hands-on engineering with providing leadership and oversight to junior Visualisation Engineers. This is a key role driving governance, adoption, and operational excellence across the organisation with accountability for Power Platform at Enterprise level.
This is an exciting time to join our business as we continue to invest in the latest technologies across the data landscape. You’ll work closely with Data Engineers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, Data Architects, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality Power Platform solutions that enable enterprise-wide reporting and drive strategic objectives.
While proven Power Platform experience is essential, we are committed to supporting ongoing training and upskilling across our wider suite of tools ensuring you can continue to grow your expertise and broaden your technical skill set.
In this role, you’ll play a central part in championing Power Platform best practices, strengthening governance, and fostering continuous improvement. You’ll also have the opportunity to actively contribute to shaping and executing our enterprise-wide visualisation and reporting strategy, helping the organization maximize the value of its data.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor the visualisation engineering team, providing technical direction, fostering capability growth, and promoting best practices in Power BI development, including DAX optimisation, query folding, and governance standards.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance Power BI solutions, leveraging semantic models and Power Platform capabilities to automate processes, meet business needs, and ensure compliance with governance, security, and data quality standards.
- Collaborate and influence across the business to translate requirements into impactful data reporting solutions, drive platform adoption, optimise performance, and shape the enterprise-wide visualisation and reporting strategy with a focus on innovation and efficiency.
About You (Experience & Qualifications)
- Expert-level Power Platform knowledge, with proven experience developing and implementing organisation-wide data visualisation strategies. Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric concepts is advantageous.
- Hands-on experience with data platforms – these could either be on premise or cloud platforms,
- Strong data modelling expertise within Power BI, capable of building robust semantic models and optimising for performance and clarity.
- Experienced with supporting tools such as DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
- Advanced DAX skills, with in-depth knowledge of query folding, summarised tables, and techniques for enhancing model efficiency.
- Passionate advocate for data platforms, actively promoting community engagement and adoption across the organisation.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring junior engineers.
- Proactive, resilient, and possessing strong leadership qualities; an excellent collaborator and team player.
- Skilled in SQL, with a focus on query optimisation and seamless integration into Power BI environments.
- Committed to best practices, aligning solutions with enterprise architecture, data governance policies, and security standards
Desirable experience
- Hands on experience of Databricks, ADF and Microsoft Azure, to support scalable, enterprise-grade analytics solutions.
- Experience of Retail
- Solid understanding of data ingestion pipelines and architectural design, contributing to reliable and scalable analytics frameworks.
We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities.
Apply today by completing an online application…
If you have any questions about the role, then please email clare.tempest@asda.uk
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Everything you’ll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves”
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
