Director, Application Development Services

Newport News, VA, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 4 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $115,000.00 - 150,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Recruiting
  • Accountability
  • Collaboration
  • Banking
  • People Management
  • Professional Development
  • Financial Services
  • Software Development
  • IT Management
  • Leadership
  • Coaching
  • Delegation
  • Software Design
  • Software Architecture
  • Delivery Management
  • Testing
  • Production Support
  • JIRA
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Microsoft Azure
  • DevOps
  • Rally
  • Stakeholder Management
  • C#
  • .NET
  • SQL
  • Application Development
  • Management

Summary

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


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  • Position Id: 100958
  • Posted 2 days ago
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