Application Engineer

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, Power BI 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.