Application Engineer in Glasgow

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 - IRESS Xplan

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 IRESS Xplan-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 & carers
• Study support - study days and funding for courses and qualifications
• Season travel ticket loans
• Volunteering days
• Gym discounts
• Other voluntary benefits you can choose to suit you

Our employees can choose to take part in various social groups and communities to support their wellbeing, growth, development and sense of community. These include: Sports & Social Committees, such as cricket, football, netball, running, yoga, quiz nights, charity bake sales and much more. Inclusion Networks that help us drive change within the organisation such as Gender Balance, Multicultural, Abilities Count, Pride, Social Mobility, Generations, Take a moment to pause (Menopause) and Armed Forces. The NextGen IM Network, which brings together a community of trainees from across the UK, who are all at the early stages of their careers and offers development opportunities, exposure across the business as well as peer support and connection.

Life at Rathbones: We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all. We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values.

We're a Level 1 Disability Confident employer under the UK Government scheme. This means we've signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities. If you feel there are any reasonable adjustments that would make the process easier for you and help you to perform at your best whether that is due to disability, neurodiversity or other protected characteristic, just let us know by emailing us.

Mission: We believe in playing the long game. That means building consistent results, earning trust and doing the right thing for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we're part of. Our values shape how we work:

• We aim high
• We get it done
• We show we care
• We do the right thing

These aren't just words on a wall. They guide how we treat each other, how we make decisions and how we build relationships that last.

We will close this advert once we have received enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure you don't miss out.