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.