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David & Lain already mentioned official approaches to involve external experts. I just have another thought on this: allowing the team to make the decision (Ex: voting to select 1 approach from the 2).
This will help to build up a self-organization mindset & a safe environment for constructive disagreement or even failure.
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I see absolutely no reason here to conclude "weakness," nor particularly to conclude that the two of them "can't come up with" an equitable solution.
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You have different issues depending on the roles of the two senior people. If it is Solutions Architect v Team Leader, the roles should be defined such that responsibility for design-related issues should lie with the Architect, while anything to do with the implementation of the design should lie with the Team Leader. They should be prepared to accept that.
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While I agree with @DavidEspina (as usual), it might be useful to explore alternatives.
You hint that the underlying cause is a conflict of personalities/egos ("showing weakness") I abstain on the resolution of these conflicts, except to say that they're going to be messy and unpleasant.
But another possible source of conflict might be an unvoiced, ...
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You implement a formal decision making process: you bring in their superior, you bring in a a handful of other technical experts, you give each party a period of time, say 30 minutes, to argue their case, you allow the other technical experts to deliberate and either vote or establish a consensus, and you get their superior to uphold the decision made by the ...
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