Application Engineer

At Rathbones, we help people invest their money well, so they can live well. That means more than financial returns; it's about helping people feel confident in their decisions and supported in their future. We don't just manage money, we guide people through life's big moments, helping them stay on track and focus on what matters most. We're proud to be one of the UK's leading wealth managers, with over £109bn in assets under management and 20+ offices across the UK and Channel Islands. We're a FTSE 250 company with national reach and a local feel and we're growing.

Role Title: Application Engineer - IRESSXplan

Division: Group Technology

Location: Glasgow, London or Liverpool

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

In this role, you'll shape and enhance our IRESS Xplan capability, developing and integrating solutions that improve functionality, reporting, and user experience. Working within a collaborative agile team, you'll deliver meaningful improvements, support deployments, and partner closely with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement across the platform. This is a great opportunity to make a visible impact while working closely with business analysts, engineers, and key stakeholders across the organisation.

What you'll be responsible for:

• Develop and maintain IRESSXplan-based solutions to meet organisational needs.
• Customise Xplan interface and workflows to improve functionality and user experience.
• Build and modify report templates in line with business requirements.
• Consult on proposed new reports / apply continuous improvement methodology to output.
• Work with the Business Design Analysts to ensure all requirements are documented to enable the build of configuration changes.
• Initial design and implementation of changes and enhancements and transition from product delivery into support.
• Assist in deploying Xplan solutions, ensuring proper integration with existing systems.
• Provide technical support during the deployment and post-deployment phases.
• Support environment refreshes, alignments, rebuilds, and environment-related fixes.
• Work with application engineers, data engineers, 3rd party vendors, and internal product teams on layout changes and deployment planning.
• Coordinate with internal technology and product teams during changes that could affect Xplan solutions.
• Contribute as a key member of an agile team, including maintaining a JIRA board, agile ceremonies and retros.

About you

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply:

• Strong experience with building and maintaining IRESS Xplan solutions.
• Proven experience in developing solutions in Xmerge, Python or Javascript.
• Proven skills in building and configuring workflows.
• Experience in Snowflake data warehouse, PowerBI and Alteryx reporting tools.
• High attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with a varying level of stakeholders both IT and business to develop strong professional relationships.
• A structured approach to problem solving and issue resolution with a focus on performance.

We offer:

Our offer to you: We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential, in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong. We offer a comprehensive remuneration package, which we review regularly, and benefits include:

• A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%
• Private medical insurance Individual on joining, family after 1 years service
• Life assurance - 8 x salary
• Income protection 75 % salary
• Company share scheme
• Flexible holidays purchase up to 5 additional days
• Discretionary bonus
• Green Car Scheme
• Family friendly policies enhanced family leave for parents