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
Business Intelligence
Closing Date
21 August 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 Team. As the most senior Visualisation Engineer in the Squad, you’ll blend hands-on engineering with providing leadership and oversight to junior Visualisation Engineers.
You will work closely with Data Engineers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, Data Architects, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-quality data products/scalable reporting solutions that drive Asda’s strategic objectives. Additionally, you’ll play a central role in championing best practices and fostering continuous improvement, actively contributing to the Asda visualisation and reporting solution strategy.
Responsibilities:
1. Provide technical mentorship and direction to visualisation engineers, helping to elevate team capability and maintain engineering standards, but also maximise their potential and promote career growth.
2. Design, develop, and maintain robust Power BI solutions that address key business needs via `scalable semantic models optimised for performance, usability, and governance taking advantage of Power Platform capabilities to automate solutions
3. Lead best practices in visualisation engineering and Power BI development, including DAX optimisation, query folding, and visual design standards.
4. Collaborate with Data Engineers, Product Managers and Data Analysts to ensure business requirements are translated into scalable, performant data reporting solutions. ensuring alignment with standards and practices for data governance, security, and data quality.
5. Balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical leadership to drive high-quality delivery.
6. Monitor and optimise performance of Power BI reports and datasets, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions proactively.
7. Act as a technical SME within the visualisation domain, supporting community forums and platform adoption across the business.
8. Contribute to and help shape the overall data visualisation and reporting strategy at Asda, highlighting opportunities to streamline with a focus on innovation, efficiency, usability
About You (Experience & Qualifications)
9. Expert-level Power BI knowledge, with proven experience developing and implementing organisation-wide data visualisation strategies. Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric concepts is advantageous.
10. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly Databricks and Microsoft Azure, to support scalable, enterprise-grade analytics solutions.
11. Strong data modelling expertise within Power BI, capable of building robust semantic models and optimising for performance and clarity.
12. Experienced with supporting tools such as DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
13. Advanced DAX skills, with in-depth knowledge of query folding, summarised tables, and techniques for enhancing model efficiency.
14. Solid understanding of data ingestion pipelines and architectural design, contributing to reliable and scalable analytics frameworks.
15. Skilled in SQL, with a focus on query optimisation and seamless integration into Power BI environments.
16. Committed to best practices, aligning solutions with enterprise architecture, data governance policies, and security standards.
17. Passionate advocate for data platforms, actively promoting community engagement and adoption across the organisation.
18. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
19. Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring junior engineers.
20. Proactive, resilient, and possessing strong leadership qualities; an excellent collaborator and team player.
We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities.
If you have any questions about the role, then please email
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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:
21. Discretionary company bonus
22. Company pension up to 7% matched
23. Company Car allowance of £5,700
24. 15% colleague discount in store and online
25. 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.
26. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
27. 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"