About Us

Founded in 2000 by Dilip Modi, Spice Money Limited is India’s leading rural fintech company, headquartered in Noida and operating as a subsidiary of DiGiSPICE Technologies Limited, a publicly listed entity. The company is driven by a robust mission to accelerate financial inclusion and empower the underserved “Bharat” through technology-enabled financial services.

With a network of 1.6+ million Adhikaris across India, the company enables last-mile access to essential services including AEPS cash withdrawal and deposits, domestic money transfer, bill payments, insurance, micro-ATM services, credit solutions, travel bookings, account opening, and UPI-led digital payments.

Spice Money has consistently introduced industry-first innovations such as a zero-cost Adhikari platform, one of India’s largest assisted payments networks, a rural credit marketplace, and Spice Money UPI & Spice Pay wallet to accelerate digital adoption in smaller towns and villages.

Operating across 95%+ pincodes with a team of 1,000+ employees, Spice Money combines the agility of a high-growth fintech with the scale and impact of a nationwide distribution network—creating meaningful economic opportunities and driving the next phase of financial inclusion in India.

About the Role

We need a Senior DBA to own our database platform across a hybrid Oracle and PostgreSQL setting. Primary depth should be in PostgreSQL, with strong working knowledge of Oracle. This role covers performance, availability, backup and recovery, and architecture decisions for production financial systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Administration & Performance
- Own PostgreSQL (primary) and Oracle (RAC/ODA) production environments: capacity planning, patching, upgrades
- Perform deep query and index tuning
- Design partitioning strategies for high-volume tables, accounting for platform differences
- Backup, Recovery & DR
- Own backup and recovery using open-source Postgres tools (pgBackRest,



Barman, or WAL-G)
- Design and test DR/HA setups (Patroni, Data Guard)
- Own RPO/RTO targets and failover runbooks

CDC & Migration
- Configure and troubleshoot CDC pipelines (Debezium, Striim, or GoldenGate)
- Apply working knowledge of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration: schema conversion, query rewrites, cutover planning

Automation & CI/CD
- Automate routine operations using Python, Shell, or Ansible
- Build and maintain database CI/CD: version-controlled schema changes and automated migration pipelines (Liquibase or Flyway)

Monitoring
- Build and maintain monitoring and observability (pgBadger, OEM, Prometheus/Grafana)
- Tune alerting thresholds to catch problems early

Security

Implement encryption at rest and in transit, access control, and auditing across both platforms

Architecture & Mentorship

- Own architecture decisions independently
- Mentor junior DBAs
- Communicate risks and trade-offs clearly to leadership and other teams

Production Support

Join the on-call rotation for off-hours critical incidents

Required Skills

- 7–10 years of DBA experience, with strong PostgreSQL depth and solid Oracle knowledge (RAC, ASM, Data Guard)
- Working knowledge of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration
- Hands-on experience with CDC tools, Debezium preferred
- Backup and recovery experience with open-source Postgres tools
- DR/HA design and actual drill experience, not just theory
- Robust performance tuning skills (non-negotiable) and partitioning expertise
- Understanding of database security and encryption
- Experience with database CI/CD and schema version control
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
- Scripting in Python or Shell
- Solid communication skills, with a track record of mentoring and owning architecture decisions
- BFSI or fintech experience preferred

Nice to Have
- Exposure to cloud-hosted databases
- Experience on an Oracle-to-Postgres migration project
- Familiarity with database activity monitoring tools such as Guardium

📌 Senior Manager (Noida)
🏢 SPICE MONEY
📍 Noida