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Director, Application Development Services

Swoon GroupNewport News, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 28, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Director, Application Development Services role at Swoon Group offers a competitive salary range of $115,000 - $150,000 and significant growth potential as you lead and develop a growing team. You'll thrive here if you have a strong technical foundation, a passion for people leadership, and enjoy partnering with stakeholders to deliver impactful application solutions in a dynamic financial services environment. Apply today to shape the future of application development!

Quick Overview

Salary

$115k - $150k/yr

Seniority

Leader

Work mode

Hybrid

Location

Newport News, VA, United States

Posted

3 weeks ago

SQLScrumAgileAzureC#JiraKanbanStakeholder Management

Job Description

Location: Newport News,Virginia
Expected Start Date: Oct 26, 2026
Salary: $115,000 - $150,000
Swoon is actively hiring a Director of Application Development to join the team!
What your day-to-day will look like

Lead, coach, and develop a small, growing team of application developers, creating an environment of trust, accountability, and collaboration.
Oversee the design, development, enhancement, and support of business critical applications, integrations, and automation solutions.
Partner with developers on application architecture and solution design, helping the team evaluate technical options and make sound decisions.
Prioritize work across production issues, operational requests, and strategic projects based on business impact, urgency, and team capacity.
Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, clarify their needs, negotiate realistic timelines, and communicate delivery priorities.
Use Jira to plan and track development work, manage Scrum or Kanban boards, and provide visibility into capacity, progress, and risks.
Coordinate the response to major application issues, including member impacting incidents that require attention outside normal business hours.
Guide delivery of initiatives such as a website redesign, new digital applications, system modernization, and changes to banking products.
Manage team workloads and resource needs as the application development group grows, while supporting each developer's professional development.
Promote secure, maintainable development practices and ensure solutions meet business needs in a regulated financial services environment.

What's Required / Technical Skills

Software development foundation: Prior hands-on experience developing applications, followed by progression into technical leadership.
People leadership: Experience managing, coaching, and developing software developers while delegating effectively.
Technical solution design: Ability to discuss application architecture, integrations, APIs, and design options with a development team.
Application delivery management: Experience guiding development work from requirements through testing, deployment, and production support.
Jira and Agile work planning: Hands-on ability to manage Scrum or Kanban boards, prioritize work, and track team capacity. Comparable experience with Azure DevOps or Rally could be considered.
Stakeholder management: Ability to balance competing business requests, negotiate timelines, and communicate clearly about priorities and constraints.
Technical familiarity with C#/.NET and SQL: Enough experience to guide discussions and evaluate solutions; current hands-on coding is not required.

What else you should know?
Job Title: Director of Application Development
Direct Hire Role
Location - Newport News, VA
Salaried Role
What's Next?
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