Information & communication technology in DVA

Every day, DVA supports hundreds of thousands of current and past serving defence force members and their families by:

  • providing compensation and income support entitlements;
  • delivering health care and rehabilitation services;
  • providing transition support emphasising wellness and self sufficiency; and
  • fulfilling Australia’s commitment to remember and honour those who serve our nation.

DVA's Information and Communication Technology Solutions Group (ICTSG) plays a key role in developing ICT solutions to deliver services to our diverse range of clients.

The ICTSG maintains and develops over 120 applications as well as many commercial off the shelf products. In addition the ICTSG currently manages a number of high profile projects that have a budget of over $20million.

The current focus for the ICTSG is embracing new approaches to:

  • Transforming information from legacy systems to more modern architecture
  • Developing and delivering smarter systems where clients have access to ‘self service’ options
  • Optimising ICT systems and functions to ensure best value for money is achieved
  • Delivering on Whole of Government business initiatives through links with Medicare, Centrelink, Department of Defence, Department of Human Services, Reserve Bank of Australia and a large number of medical service providers.

To achieve this, we have a large team of ICT specialists, including:

  • Technical roles
    • Mobile Application Developers
    • Software Development
    • Complex System Integration Specialists
    • Information Security
    • Web Developers
    • COTS Specialist
  • Non-technical roles
    • Project Managers
    • Business Analysts
    • Solutions Architects
    • ICT Procurement & Contract Management
    • ICT Project Support
    • The Grand Designers – ICT Strategists
    • Desktop Architects
    • Test Managers

ICT Graduates in DVA

DVA’s ICT Solutions Group is in a unique position to be able to offer graduates real world experience in a variety of highly sought after technologies. With systems ranging from Mainframe COBOL to .Net and Java web applications, the ICTSG has projects that will appeal to a wide variety of ICT graduates. As part of the ICT Graduate team you will work in a number of technical and non-technical roles and develop key skills that are in high demand for tomorrows public service.

More information about DVA's ICT Graduate Program

Read more information about DVA's ICT Graduate Program