Lead Visualisation Engineer - Leeds

Asda Stores Ltd.; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail supermarket chain seeks a Senior Visualisation Engineer for its Data Platform Team in Leeds. The role involves leading a team in delivering scalable Power BI solutions, optimizing data governance, and mentoring junior engineers. Applicants are welcomed for part-time and flexible work arrangements. Attractive benefits include a company bonus, pension scheme, and well-being services.

Benefits

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

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Power Platform with hands-on engineering.
• Strong data modelling expertise within Power BI.
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the visualisation engineering team with technical direction.
• Design and maintain scalable Power BI solutions to meet business needs.
• Collaborate to drive platform adoption and optimise performance.

Skills

Power Platform experience

Data modelling expertise in Power BI

Advanced DAX skills

SQL skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership and mentoring

Tools

DAX Studio

Tabular Editor

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Databricks

ADF

Microsoft Azure

Job description

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.

Key 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.
• 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. 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.

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.
• 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