Jacob Rougeau

Background

About Jacob Rougeau

Jacob Rougeau is a Senior Enterprise Architect for Subsurface and Wells in the Chevron Information Technology organization in Houston, Texas. After beginning his career with Chevron as a software engineering intern and joining full-time in 2001, Jacob has evolved into a strategic technology leader driving architectural excellence across Chevron’s Subsurface Digital Platform. In his current role, Jacob leads a team of four Enterprise Architects responsible for defining and governing future-state architectures that enable business capabilities across Earth Science, Reservoir Management and Forecasting, Asset Development and Portfolio Optimization, Surveillance and Optimization, Wells Engineering and Assurance, and Wells Operations. His work ensures alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives, delivering architectural assurance, guiding investment decisions, and modernizing Chevron’s technology portfolio. Jacob partners closely with business leaders, IT Portfolio Managers, Technical Managers, other Enterprise Architects, and the Chief Architect to embed architecture strategy into long-term planning and governance. He plays a key role in Chevron’s enterprise architecture community, advancing practices, mentoring architects, and contributing to architecture health metrics across platforms. As a member of Chevron’s Senior IT Leadership team, Jacob influences enterprise-wide digital strategy, technology direction, organizational readiness, and IT process optimization. In his spare time, Jacob enjoys numismatics, playing video games, visiting museums, watching college football, studying archaeology, and solving software development puzzles.